Leslie Bibb reveals real-life partner Sam Rockwell was ‘not sure’ about ‘White Lotus’ Season 3 cameo

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Leslie Bibb has a very popular opinion.The actress, 50, revealed how she felt about her partner Sam Rockwell’s “White Lotus” Season 3 monologue during “Watch What Happens Live” on Tuesday.“I ran lines with him,” Bibb, 50, shared. “I think that monologue is iconic and I think it’s really what the whole season is about — what [creator Mike White’s] really saying there.”“He was shooting in South Africa,” Bibb said of Rockwell, 56. “And he decided to do it.

They came to him very last minute to do the show because we had gone long and casting had shifted.”“He was not sure about doing it just because he didn’t have proper prep time,” she recalled. “So we went on a safari in South Africa, and I was like, ‘I’ll get you off book.

I’ll get you off book.’”And that she did.Rockwell shows up as Frank in episode 5 of the HBO drama. Frank is as a longtime friend of Walton Goggins character Rick and the old pals meet up in Bangkok, Thailand.Frank then launches into a puzzling monologue about his sex life.

He shared that he moved to Thailand and used to spend a “thousand” nights having sex with random women, before he decided, “Maybe what I really want is to be one of these Asian girls.” “So I put out an ad… found a guy who looked a lot like me,” he went on. “I put on some lingerie and perfume, I made myself look like one of those girls.