Sam Rockwell’s ‘White Lotus’ surprise cameo gave star Walton Goggins anxiety — here’s why

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Frank delivers a bizarre monologue about his sex life. “Sam is one of my best friends, and he’s also one of my heroes,” Goggins, 53, told USA Today in an interview published Monday.The “Fallout” star noted that doing a scene with Rockwell “was riddled with anxiety because we know each other so well, and I certainly didn’t want to let him down.”In Season 3, Rick has traveled to the titular resort in Thailand with his much younger girlfriend, Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood).

But in Episode 5, he takes a solo trip to Bangkok and meets Frank while Chelsea is off partying and getting weird and incestuous with brothers Lochlan (Sam Nivola) and Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger).Frank eventually gives him a gun, as part of the mysterious score that Rick has to settle with the owner of the resort.

Rockwell, 56, was likely already in Thailand visiting the set, as his partner, Leslie Bibb, 50, plays Kate Bohr in the Mike White-created dark comedy.Kate is on a girls trip with her two friends, played by Carrie Coon and Michelle Monaghan.

In 2018, Rockwell told Us Weekly that he and Bibb have a “two- to three-week rule, and then we see each other.” The couple have been together since 2007. “Leslie and I are very happy, we have a good life,” Rockwell told the London Standard in 2022. “We just like it the way it is.