Sam Rockwellknows a thing or two about stealing the show.
“I was on the treadmill and [producer] Dave Bernad came to me.
But I was like, ‘Sam is wild as a buck.
Sam Rockwell in ‘The White Lotus’.Credit:Courtesy of HBO
Listen, I don’t know what he’s going to do.
He’s doing a movie in South Africa, he likes time to prep.’
And he was very nervous about that prep time.”
Leslie Bibb, ‘The White Lotus’.MAX
“Am I a middle-aged white guy on the inside too?
Or inside, could I be an Asian girl?”
“I don’t know.
Guess I was trying to f— my way to the answer.
“That was a big arc to do that quickly,” Bibb says of the character’s debut.
What if he says no?'
I was so scared!
“It was really fun,” she says.
“We don’t have any scenes together, and he did all of his stuff in eight days.
He gotThe White Lotuslight.
Mike was really happy to have him too.”
Bibb did get a bit jealous when she first saw some of Rockwell’s scenes, however.
“Look how cool they look.
This is likeTo Live and Die in L.A., but it was like To Live and Die in Bangkok.
It was so cool.”
The White Lotusseason 3 airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HBO.
