Saturday Night Live: Sam Rockwell makes cameo in shoe song

We had a feeling entering tonight’s Saturday Night Live episode that we could see a Walton Goggins co-star from the past appear. Also, it made sense for it to be Sam Rockwell.

After all, consider the following — not only did Rockwell appear on The White Lotus this past season in a surprise role, but he and Walton are good friends in real life. Therefore, it made a lot of sense for him to show up in a brief pre-taped segment that was all about tiny shoes. The joke was that Walton was a grown man with tiny feet, whereas Jane Wickline’s character thought she was delivering a lost shoe to a child. Goggins’ character then thought that they were going to date, and that did not happen. Rockwell then came out later with tiny feet, as well — really just adding to the joke.

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This entire sketch was all about Walton playing a ridiculous character, and was in that way the opposite of his character in the next sketch — one who flirted constantly. We imagine that the actor wanted to show his full range over the course of this 90 minutes, and this allowed him to do that and then some.

So were there be other cameos tonight?

Well, not so much. Interestingly, there were not a lot of references in general to some of Goggins’ other work beyond The White Lotus. There was no mention of The Ghoul from Fallout, Baby Billy from The Righteous Gemstones, or really anything else. While Walton was game for anything in general, we do tend to think that there was more that the show could have done to tap into the huge fandom that he has.

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