The Gilded Age actress Carrie Coon has admitted to being a “terrible cynic” and feeling “pretty negative about the state of the world” before launching a scathing insult into her HBO period drama, in which she just earned an Emmy nomination as rising socialite Bertha Russell.
“It’s not necessarily a job that appeals to me,” the 43-year-old actress admitted to The Associated Press. Los Angeles Times‘The Tuesday Envelope.
“It’s not something I would necessarily choose to watch.”
Carrie said it was a “challenge” to simply make herself “feel like a human being” with “that elevated language, in those spaces and those dresses” and said she was simply “providing a kind of palliative care for the masses” – that is, hospice care.
However, Coon said she was “pleased” that co-executive producers Sonja Warfield and Julian Fellowes “have embraced this breakneck pace of storytelling” for season two after having “delivered a lot of exposition after season one.”
The Gilded Age actress Carrie Coon has admitted to being a “terrible cynic” and feeling “pretty negative about the state of the world” before launching a scathing insult into her HBO period drama, in which she just earned an Emmy nomination as rising socialite Bertha Russell.
The 43-year-old actress admitted to the LA Times’ The Envelope on Tuesday: “It’s not necessarily a work that appeals to me. It’s not something that I would necessarily choose to watch.” (Photo from June 24)
The outspoken Democrat then did what a traditional wife would do and confessed that her husband of nearly 11 years — Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts — “is responsible for all of our decisions in terms of television and film.”
“It’s a decision I don’t have to make during the day, but I love it. I enjoy that aspect of it,” Carrie said enthusiastically.
Coon “immediately started crying” on July 17 when she learned her husband, 59, was nominated for outstanding guest actor in a drama series for his role as the late LA Lakers head coach Jack McKinney on HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.
“I immediately started crying and my family was like, ‘You didn’t cry when you got a nomination, but you cry when Tracy gets a nomination,'” the Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire actress recalled. Deadline At the moment.
Carrie and Tracy, who share a six-year-old son, Haskell Letts, and a three-year-old daughter, originally met while co-starring in the Steppenwolf Theatre production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in the early 2010s.
Coon faces stiff competition for the best lead actress in a drama series trophy from The Morning Show’s Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, Mr. & Mrs. Smith’s Maya Erskine, Shōgun’s Anna Sawai and The Crown’s Imelda Staunton.
The Gilded Age also received a nomination for outstanding drama series, costumes and production design, while Christine Baranski, who plays Agnes van Rhijn, is nominated for outstanding supporting actress in a drama series when the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards air on Sept. 15 on ABC.
“I’m so excited for Christine. And of course, none of this would have been possible for me without (my on-screen husband) Morgan Spector,” the Tony-nominated actress added.
Carrie said it was a “challenge” to simply make herself “feel like a human being” with “that heightened language, in those spaces and those dresses” and said she was simply “providing a kind of palliative care for the masses” – that is, hospice care.
However, Coon said she was “pleased” that co-executive producers Sonja Warfield and Julian Fellowes “have embraced this breakneck pace of storytelling” for season two after having “dispatched a lot of exposition after season one.”
The outspoken Democrat then made a traditionalist gesture, confessing that her husband of nearly 11 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts (right, pictured in 2022), “is responsible for all of our decisions in terms of television and film.”
“It’s a decision I don’t have to make during the day, but I love it. I enjoy that aspect of it,” Carrie said enthusiastically.
Coon “immediately started crying” on July 17 when she learned her 59-year-old husband (M) was nominated for outstanding guest actor in a drama series for his role as the late Los Angeles Lakers head coach Jack McKinney on HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.
“I immediately started crying, and my family was like, ‘You didn’t cry when you got a nomination, but you cry when Tracy gets a nomination,'” the Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire actress recalled to Deadline at the time.
Carrie faces stiff competition for the best lead actress in a drama series trophy from The Morning Show’s Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, Mr. & Mrs. Smith’s Maya Erskine, Shōgun’s Anna Sawai and The Crown’s Imelda Staunton.
The Gilded Age also received a nomination for outstanding drama series, costumes and production design, while Christine Baranski, who plays Agnes van Rhijn, is nominated for outstanding supporting actress in a drama series when the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards air Sept. 15 on ABC.
“He’s a lovely scene partner. I think one of the things people respond to most is that very special marriage. Yes. There is no Bertha without George.”
On Mondays, Deadline Bill Camp, Merritt Wever, Leslie Uggams and Lisagay Hamilton have been revealed to have been added to the ensemble of the 1880s New York City-set series now in production on its third season.
Carrie, who holds a master’s degree in acting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, replaced Amanda Peet as Bertha Russell on The Gilded Age after she had to pull out due to scheduling issues during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Coon recently returned from Thailand, where he filmed a mystery role in the third season of Mike White’s critically acclaimed HBO series The White Lotus, alongside Walter Goggins, Nicholas Duvernay, Aimee Lou Wood, Parker Posey and Leslie Bibb.
Coon (BR) just returned from Thailand, where he filmed a mystery role in the third season of Mike White’s acclaimed HBO series The White Lotus, alongside (l-r) Walter Goggins, Nicholas Duvernay, Aimee Lou Wood, Parker Posey and Leslie Bibb.
“I think (Mike White) is playing with a really interesting dynamic. I think it’s something he would continue to do if he was allowed to, because I think he would like to go bigger and more international and put together weirder groups of people; that’s what he’s passionate about,” said the SAG Award nominee. Vanity Fair‘s Little Gold Men podcast in April.
“I think it’s important in this world to see people confronting each other in this way. Of course, he’s satirizing rich white people and he’s doing it very well. He’s really speaking to people who need to be spoken to in a very interesting way. He had a season about money, a season about sex, and this is his season about death.”
Carrie also executive produced and starred as alcoholic Katie alongside on-screen sisters Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen in Azazel Jacobs’ film. critically acclaimed family drama His Three Daughters, premiering September 20 on Netflix.
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