Leslie Bibb talks about getting the chance to work with Carrie Coon and Michelle Monaghan as a trio for 'The White Lotus' season three while chatting with THR at the show's premiere. Plus, she dishes on living with her fellow castmates while shooting in Thailand.
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00:00Congratulations on this. Tell me about this trio that you've got going here.
00:05It's a pretty, what did you think when you kind of heard about the group you
00:08were gonna be with? I'm such huge fans. I'm a huge fan of both of these
00:12actresses. I saw Carrie do Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf on Broadway and I
00:17couldn't tell you who Martha was but I was like remember, I was like who's
00:20Honey? Who was that actress? And I've been such a fan of Michelle's for so long.
00:26She's so, she's such a great actor and she's so relaxed and there's never, she's
00:33so authentic on screen like you never see any tension in her when she's acting
00:39and she's so good and I loved her in True Detective and everything Michelle
00:44does. So I was so excited and I just wanted to make sure that when they toss
00:52me the ball in a scene I was able to toss it back but I also think that when
00:56you're surrounded by great people it makes you hopefully better so hopefully
00:59I didn't drop the ball with them. Mike has said this season is darker than the
01:05past two. How do you kind of feel like this compares to what we've seen from
01:08the first two seasons? I think it's much bigger than past seasons. You know he's
01:15addressing spirituality and death so I think there's something very dark about
01:23that and you have people who might not be the most spiritual people in the most
01:29spiritual country so already you're gonna have people being, I mean he likes
01:32to, he likes to tear, tear at all the characters and he really goes for
01:38brokenness. I mean he, there's nothing black and white with his writing or his
01:45characters. He's like the messier, the more complicated, the darker they are and
01:49he just really, I mean he just didn't hold back so I like, I love that about
01:56him. There's never really like a gray area with him. He goes for it. He's not
02:03fearless. And shooting in Thailand, I mean what was kind of the cast bonding where
02:09I've never really shot any place that far away. That, I mean, it's like the
02:15opposite side of the world. I mean I shot in Australia but like Sam got to come see me. I
02:20don't know but like this felt very far away for some reason and I don't know it
02:28was very exciting. It also, you're living where you're shooting so it's, you don't
02:35go home. You're like, bye guys, see you tomorrow. You'll be at the gym. You'll be like, hi,
02:39enjoy your day at work because you're, I don't know, there's something about that
02:42that's so strange. Like if you forget something, you don't have to get in your
02:48car and go to your house. You just go, can I get a golf cart to take me to room 52
02:53or whatever it is. But yeah, it was, I mean it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience
02:59and I just feel like the luckiest actress.
03:03Well maybe if you survive, you could be on a season four.
03:06I don't know. We'll see. Does she survive?
03:09Who knows?
03:11Thank you so much.
03:12You're welcome.