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Leslie Bibb Says Longtime Partner Sam Rockwell Got Cast ‘Last-Minute’ in ‘The White Lotus’

Leslie Bibb gushed over partner Sam Rockwell helping with her audition for The White Lotus before he was cast in season 3 of the series at the ‘last minute.’

Two days after Sam’s jaw-dropping debut episode aired, Leslie, 50, detailed how her “beloved Sammy” got the small role of Frank shortly after she joined the White Lotus cast during a Tuesday, March, 18, appearance on CBS Mornings. “[I told him] ‘I’m going to put you to work, you have to be my reader in the scene.’ So, he read the scene with me and then Chris Messina taped the audition on his iPhone and that’s what I sent in,” the Iron Man actress revealed. Frank’s confession turned into a full-on bombshell when he revealed that he actually wanted to be “one of these Asian girls” and began to crossdress as one and have sex with men solely as the receiver while a woman watched.

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