Sam Rockwell performed George W. Bush — then begged Jenna Bush Hager’s pardon.
The actor, 56, apologized to the previous commander in chief’s daughter for his 2018 portrayal of her father in “Vice.”
Rockwell made his plea for forgiveness throughout a June 17 look on “Today with Jenna & Friends,” alongside Bush Hager and visitor co-host — and his longtime associate — Leslie Bibb.
“So, like, when you played Jenna’s dad,” Bibb, 51, started.
Rockwell interjected: “Yes, oh my God, I’m sorry. I’m sorry for that.”
“No, you don’t need to apologize,” Bush Hager, 43, reassured Rockwell. She recalled discussing the function with Bibb in the course of the actress’ March 27 look on the present.
“I said to Jenna, I said, ‘It was really weird for me because when Sam was playing your dad, I never thought George Bush was, like, sexy?’ But then suddenly I was like, ‘What’s happening?’”
As a split-screen comparability of Bush and Rockwell within the movie appeared on-screen, Bibb echoed her earlier sentiment: “Her dad has never been sexier. Look at you two!”
In accordance with Bibb, Rockwell listened to the previous president “nonstop” to organize for his function in Adam McKay’s 2018 political satire.
“Vice” additionally starred Christian Bale (Dick Cheney), Amy Adams (Lynne Cheney), Steve Carell (Donald Rumsfeld) and Tyler Perry (Colin Powell).
“Did you ever just bring [the impression] out?” Bush Hager requested Rockwell. “Like, if you’d go to a Tex-Mex restaurant, all of a sudden you’d be talking like George Bush?”
“Well, I was on ‘Jimmy Kimmel [Live!],’ and I remember watching that interview with your dad and Jimmy Kimmel over and over again. And he said something like, ‘Dónde está Guillermo?’” Rockwell replied, sending Bush Hager and Bibb right into a match of laughter.
Bush Hager requested in disbelief, “Did he really say, ‘Dónde está Guillermo?’” to which Rockwell responded, “He did, he did. It’s a great interview.”
These days, Rockwell admitted, his impression of the forty third president has “gone away,” as a substitute taking the type of “just one amalgam of Southern people.”
“Now, when I do Walton Goggins, I do George, your dad,” Rockwell mentioned. “Or when I do your dad, I do Matthew McConaughey or Woody Harrelson.”
“I love it,” Bibb mentioned.
The “Popular” alum launched Rockwell because the “love of [her] life for 18 years” on the high of her NBC look.
The couple met and began courting in 2007, after what Rockwell described as a “kind of thunderbolt, ‘Dream Weaver’ moment in ‘Wayne’s World’” once they first noticed one another.
Bibb and Rockwell went on to work collectively in a number of tasks, together with 2010’s “Iron Man 2” and 2015’s “Don Verdean.”
Most lately, Rockwell made a cameo in Season 3 of “The White Lotus,” through which Bibb performed Kate Bohr as a part of the season’s primary forged. Goggins, 53, additionally starred.
Rockwell and Goggins have been pals for 15 years ever since they labored collectively on 2011’s “Cowboys & Aliens,” Goggins informed Vainness Truthful in an interview printed on March 17.
“That is both a positive and a negative in the sense that we haven’t worked together since then,” Goggins added. “Further complicating this collaboration is that Sam is my hero. He’s really one of the guys in my generation that I look up to, and he knows that.”
Rockwell made his shock in episode 5, throughout which his character, Frank, meets Rick (Goggins) in Bangkok, Thailand. Frank then delivers a weird monologue about his intercourse life.
“It was riddled with anxiety because we know each other so well, and I certainly didn’t want to let him down,” Goggins informed USA At present, referring to filming the scene with Rockwell.
“The first words that came out of our mouths, it was as if we were these people our whole lives,” he continued. “And it was like we truly had met up after leading this kind of criminal expat life forever. It was everything that I had hoped it would be. [Viewers] don’t know the story between Rick and Frank, [but] it says a lot about excess and how one lives one’s life.”
“There’s not a better person I could have gone through it with than Sam,” Goggins concluded. “I’m just so grateful for that time together with my buddy.”
