The season finale of HBO's Watchmen may have answered a lot of questions, but fans are still left wondering about the mysterious Lube Man. Now, Regina King has shed some light on the enigmatic breakout star and his infamous stunt.
"It was wild. It was wild just to see the guy do it," King told IGN. "I was like, 'Yo, that's bananas!'And it was cold as shit that day. So he's out there in that polyurethane, whatever it was that he had on, and he did that, and that was amazing. … They built that little drain so that he can slide in it. But yes, that was an actual stunt."
Lube Man, who's strongly implied to be FBI Agent Dale Petey, makes his one and only appearance in Episode 4 of Watchmen. As Sister Knight chases a slender man in a silver bodysuit with a squeeze bottles holstered to his hips, he escapes by squirting himself with liquid and then sliding down a sewage drain, never to be seen again.
Developed by Damon Lindelof, HBO's Watchmen stars Jeremy Irons, Regina King, Don Johnson, Tim Blake Nelson, Jean Smart, Louis Gossett Jr., Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Tom Mison, James Wolk, Adelaide Clemens, Andrew Howard, Frances Fisher, Jacob Ming-Trent, Sara Vickers, Dylan Schombing, Lily Rose Smith and Adelynn Spoon.