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Sam Rockwell’s Shocking ‘White Lotus’ Sex Monologue Gave a Slow Season New Life
Sam Rockwell and Walton Goggins shared the screen for a blistering, strange four minutes
A season that has generally played it studiously safe around issues of race — one in which the hotel’s Thai employees are carefully portrayed as so virtuous as to be, so far, nearly absent of qualities — steps, thrillingly, onto a ledge here. And I’m fucking me.” Frank is, in the theater of his mind, the least powerful person in the room, a delusion that sidesteps the fact that — as a white American man of means, and the guy who’s paying both other parties to be there — he’s the most. Rockwell (incidentally the romantic partner of season standout Leslie Bibb) is likely the most famous actor to have appeared on the show to date, and yet he utterly fits.
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