NEED TO KNOW
- Sarah Silverman cleared up a lingering query in regards to the third season of The White Lotus: Why did Parker Posey’s character faux to not know Leslie Bibb’s once they bumped into one another on the resort?
- The comic stated that she reached out to the present’s creator and her former costar Mike White for readability throughout a Could 28 look on LIVE with Kelly and Mark to advertise her new comedy particular PostMortem
- In response to White, the scene served one very small objective — to actually drive residence that Posey’s character was “a bitch”
Sarah Silverman offered some readability on one of many big lingering questions that followers nonetheless had in regards to the third season of The White Lotus.
Throughout a Wednesday, Could 28, look on LIVE with Kelly and Mark to advertise her new Netflix particular PostMortem, the 54-year-old comic mirrored on starring in 2003’s School of Rock alongside White Lotus creator Mike White.
“I really like mentioning to those who Ned Scheebly [White’s School of Rock character] is the man who writes the entire White Lotuses,” she instructed cohosts Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos.
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Consuelos questioned if Silverman ever reached out to White with questions on his beloved HBO collection. She admitted that she did whereas watching the third season to ask about an ungainly interplay between Parker Posey and Leslie Bibb.
Within the present’s third season, which came about in Thailand, Posey performed Victoria Ratliff, a resort visitor who arrived together with her household and stole the present together with her dry strains and love of Lorazepam.
She had a really uncomfortable encounter with Bibb’s character Kate, who vacationed on the resort together with her childhood finest associates (performed by Michelle Monaghan and Carrie Coon).
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 thinking about conversing and completely iced her out.
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“I detest doing that as a result of I really feel like everybody have to 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.
She continued, saying, “‘Why did she faux to not know her? Is it one thing you didn’t get to that obtained reduce out, or like, what’s the reply?’ And he goes, ‘No, I used to be simply displaying that she’s a bitch.’ ”
Silverman was additionally requested if she had any curiosity in showing in an upcoming season of The White Lotus, which was renewed for a fourth season initially of the yr.
She stated that White is “in all probability not” going to have her seem on the present, agreeing with Ripa, who stated that she “can be wonderful” as part of the ensemble solid.
“I like it. I might be wonderful, I might be,” she stated.
Whereas followers could not see Silverman on The White Lotus, they’ll spot her in her new comedy particular, PostMortem, which is out there to stream on Netflix. The particular was filmed as Silverman launched into a comedy tour the place she addressed the dying of her father Donald and his spouse Janice, who died inside 9 days of one another.
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“At first I used to be dreading dredging all of it up, however by the second half of the tour I obtained excited every evening to inform all people about my dad and mom,” she instructed PEOPLE, noting, “It was extremely cathartic.”
Donald died in May 2023, a indisputable fact that Silverman shared together with her followers on social media.
“My finest pal, Schleppy — my dad, died final evening,” Silverman introduced on Instagram. “All of the sisters, and grandkids surrounded him with love and singing and really darkish f—ed up jokes this closing week.”
She continued, including, “He at all times stated he was the richest man on the planet due to his household, and he was.”