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Sam Rockwell's 'insane' queer White Lotus monologue has the internet reeling
Sam Rockwell's 'insane' queer White Lotus monologue has the internet reeling
Sam Rockwell in the The White Lotus.
The Oscar winner delivered a doozy of a monologue involving ladyboys, gender identity, queer sex, and a journey of self discovery.
Viewers of Mike White's hit HBO show The White Lotus will know that the most recent episode, episode five, which aired March 16, was one of the wildest in the show's history.
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The episode featured everything from naked Russian men, to two brothers kissing, to a giant lizard, to Parker Posey's brilliant Southern drawl. But the moment the internet can't stop talking about is a rollercoaster tour de force monologue delivered by a new character played by Oscar winner Sam Rockwell.
In the latest episode, Rick (Walton Goggins) has left the hotel to go to Bangkok to meet the man he says killed his father and is meeting up with an old friend in a restaurant.
When his friend, played by Rockwell, orders a cup of tea instead of a drink, Rick is surprised to find out he's been sober for almost a year, and that he's now a Buddhist. Then, Rockwell delivers an all-time great monologue about why he moved to Thailand and how he found his faith.
He explained that he moved to the country because he "always had a thing for Asian girls," and when he got there, he had as much sex as possible, but after a while, realized that "maybe what I really want is to be one of these Asian girls."
He then proceeded to explain how he started by letting ladyboys have sex with him, but soon started to hire white men who looked like him to have sex with him while he "put on some lingerie and perfume, made myself look like one of these girls," and did that over and over again.
"Are we our forms? Am I a middle-aged white guy on the inside too? Or inside, could I be an Asian girl?" he mused. "I don't know. Guess I was trying to fuck my way to the answer. Then I realized I gotta stop the drugs, the girls, trying to be a girl, I got into Buddhism which is all about spirit versus form, detaching from self, getting off the never ending carousel of lust and suffering."
In an episode packed full of wild reveals and twists, this quiet monologue (and Walton Goggins' brilliant facial expressions resting to it) stole the show!
Of course, many fans reacted by sharing what their own faces looked like during the monologue with reaction images and gifs.
Some pointed out that Rockwell has been in a relationship with one of this season's stars, Leslie Bibb, since 2007, making the episode a true family affair.
Others latched on to Walton Goggins' amazing reactions, which really do sum up how fans are all feeling this year.
