Leslie Bibb On Sarah Silverman Solving ‘The White Lotus’ Mystery: Exclusive

Leslie Bibb is reacting to Sarah Silverman untangling a thriller surrounding her The White Lotus character.

On the Soiree at Sundown Tower, held in partnership with OLAPLEX on Wednesday, June 4, Bibb, 51, tells PEOPLE completely about her ideas on Silverman’s inquiry. Silverman had requested sequence creator Mike White why Parker Posey’s character pretended to not know Leslie Bibb’s once they bumped into one another on the resort — one thing that had lengthy puzzled followers.

“Thanks, Sarah Silverman,” she laughs.

“I imply, it was only one scene. That was it. However is not it loopy? Everyone’s like, ‘We’d like extra.’ It is so loopy what sticks, as a result of whenever you learn the script, it did not really feel like, ‘we want extra of this’, or one thing. However then whenever you see the present, everybody’s like, ‘No, we want extra of this,'” Bibb tells PEOPLE of the scene.

“I keep in mind feeling like I simply gave Parker… my companion and I introduced her with the Gotham Award,” Bibb stated of co-star Parker Posey’s latest Legend Tribute award win on the 2025 Gotham TV Awards on Tuesday, June 3.

“And I watched that clip of that. Sam [Rockwell, who plays Frank on The White Lotus] is like, ‘You have to watch it.’ So, I watched that clip and I used to be like, ‘Oh my God, she’s so horrible to me,’ Bibb stated of her character Kate Bohr’s interactions with Posey’s character.

Bibb provides, “Poor Kate. No one remembers. No one remembers poor Kate.”

During a Wednesday, May 28, appearance on LIVE with Kelly and Mark to advertise her new Netflix particular PostMortem, Silverman, 54, reminisced about starring in School of Rock in 2003 alongside White Lotus creator Mike White.

“I really like mentioning to folks that Ned Scheebly [White’s School of Rock character] is the man who writes the entire White Lotuses,” she advised cohosts Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos.

When Consuelos, 54, requested if Silverman ever reaches out to her former costar with questions whereas watching the White Lotus, she revealed that she did textual content White, 54, concerning the cryptic scene from season three through which Bibb’s Kate has a frosty interplay with North Carolina spouse and mom Victoria Ratliff, performed by Parker Posey.

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Within the scene, Kate insists that she knew Victoria and that they’d a mutual buddy. Nonetheless, the matriarch of the Ratliff household was not all for conversing and totally iced her out, returning to her season-long quest for Lorazepam within the Thai resort.

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“I detest doing that as a result of I really feel like everybody should be asking him, however I did. I did textual content him out of this one, I emailed him and I stated, ‘What’s up with Leslie Bibb — how come we didn’t discover out why Parker Posey iced Leslie Bibb?’ ” Silverman admitted.

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She continued, saying, “‘Why did she fake to not know her? Is it one thing you didn’t get to that acquired minimize out, or like, what’s the reply?’ And he goes, ‘No, I used to be simply displaying that she’s a bitch.'”

Bibb’s character Kate Bohr stays on the Thai resort in The White Lotus’ third season alongside her two childhood buddies in a woman’s journey gone unsuitable.