Who doesn’t love Carrie Coon? For these of us fortunate sufficient to see her star-turn in Steppenwolf Theater’s manufacturing of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” through the early 2010s — a manufacturing that additionally earned her the affections of her now husband, Tracy Letts — there’s all the time been a slight obsession together with her rise to fame. She surprised us in “The Leftovers” together with her complicated portrayal of a lady who’s misplaced all the things and is dying to really feel once more. She broke our hearts in Season 3 of “Fargo” as a cop unable to make sense of a world that retains getting crazier. Now in “The Gilded Age”, she is serving us glamor, historical past, and a wholesome dose of petty vindictiveness. Along with her function within the newest installment of “The White Lotus” on the horizon, one can’t assist however marvel if the sky isn’t the restrict for this continuously evolving expertise.
To ask Coon herself, she would most likely say the evolution is extra of a reward than the celebrity. Chatting with Self-importance Honest for the “Little Gold Males” podcast, Coon stated, “I work arduous. I’m attempting to get higher. I watch myself. I attempt to determine what a few of my habits are. I learn all the things. I learn all of the evaluations. I learn good evaluations. I learn dangerous evaluations.” As to why she felt this duty, she continued, “Look, we’re all going to die. Nothing any individual writes in an article goes to be the factor that kills me. Plenty of different issues are going to kill me, however that’s not considered one of them. I perceive should you’re working onstage and also you’re studying evaluations whilst you’re onstage, you will get caught in your head on that stuff. But additionally… I don’t know. I prefer to know the way the work’s being acquired on the planet. I believe it’s necessary.”
Coon additionally revealed that demise is a key theme within the upcoming Season 3 of “The White Lotus” as she heaped reward on showrunner Mike White.
“I believe he’s enjoying with some actually attention-grabbing dynamics. I believe it’s one thing he would proceed to do in the event that they let him, as a result of I believe he want to get larger and extra worldwide and put collectively weirder teams of individuals — that’s what he’s enthusiastic about,” she stated. “And I believe that’s necessary on this world, to see individuals banging up in opposition to one another on this approach. After all, he’s satirizing wealthy white individuals, and he’s doing it very nicely. He’s actually talking to individuals who must be spoken to in a very attention-grabbing approach. He had a season about cash; he had a season about intercourse. And that is his season about demise.”