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. I thought I looked pretty hot.”
Rockwell’s Frank then detailed how during some night three to four men would come “rail the sh-t” out of him, and, “at the same time, I’d hire an Asian girl to just sit there and watch the whole thing….I’d look into her eyes while some guy was f–-king me and I’d think, I am her, and I’m f–-king me.”
Rick looked unsure of how to respond and would occasionally give Frank an “uh-huh…right…”
Frank then revealed how his experiences led him to become a Buddhist, and getting off “the never-ending carousel of lust and suffering.”
Bibb had previously touched on Rockwell’s iconic monologue while on CBS Mornings.
“I read all eight [episodes] and I remember when I got to this monologue and this scene and I remember thinking, ‘I’ve never seen anything like this on television,’ and I felt like it’s what Mike was really trying to talk about with this show,” she said on Tuesday. “He comes in and he’s like, ‘Here’s my truth’ and he’s unapologetic.”
The actress added that her own character Kate and her friends could learn a thing or two from Frank’s monologue.
“I feel like if the women just came in and did what Frank did and [had] been like, ‘Hey, this is what’s happening in my life,” Bibb said. “I’m having problems with my marriage, I’m drinking too much, I’m doing this,’ whatever, they wouldn’t be gossiping about each other because they would immediately put the shield down and be vulnerable.”
Bibb and Rockwell have been together since 2007, with the actor telling the London Standard in 2022, “Leslie and I are very happy, we have a good life. We just like it the way it is. We don’t want kids. It’s interesting when you tell people this. They get very upset with you. I know more and more couples who don’t have kids.”
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