The Gilded Age actress Carrie Coon confesses HBO period drama not something she would choose to watch herself
- The 43-year-old actress just scored an Emmy Award nomination on July 17 for her role as rising socialite Bertha Russell in the HBO series
The Gilded Age actress Carrie Coon confessed that her HBO period drama isn't something she would choose to watch herself weeks after scoring an Emmy nod as rising socialite Bertha Russell.
'It's not necessarily work I would be drawn to,' the 43-year-old actress admitted to the LA Times' The Envelope on Tuesday.
'It's not something I would necessarily choose to watch myself.'
Carrie said it was a 'challenge' just making 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.'
However, Coon said she was 'gratified' that co-executive producers Sonja Warfield and Julian Fellowes 'have embraced this breathless pace of storytelling' for season two after they 'dispatched a lot of exposition after season one.'
The Gilded Age actress Carrie Coon confessed that her HBO period drama isn't something she would choose to watch herself weeks after scoring an Emmy nod as rising socialite Bertha Russell
The 43-year-old actress admitted to the LA Times' The Envelope on Tuesday: 'It's not necessarily work I would be drawn to. It's not something I would necessarily choose to watch myself' (pictured June 24)
'But I love [the soapy-ness of the show]. I relish that side of it,' she said.
'We're creating our own world with our dialect coach and trying to keep everybody in the same story.'
The outspoken Democrat then pulled a tradwife move and confessed that her husband of nearly 11 years - Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts - 'is responsible for all of our choices in terms of TV and film.'
'It's one decision I don't have to make in the day,' Carrie noted.
Coon 'immediately started to cry' on July 17 when she learned her 59-year-old husband was nominated for outstanding guest actor in a drama series for his role as the late LA Lakers head coach Jack McKinney in HBO's Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.
'I immediately started to cry, and my family said, "You weren't crying when you got a nomination, but you're crying when Tracy gets a nomination,"' the Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire actress recalled to Deadline at the time.
Carrie and and Tracy - who share six-year-old son Haskell Letts and a three-year-old daughter - originally met while co-starring in Steppenwolf Theater's production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in the early 2010s.
Coon faces heavy competition for the outstanding lead actress in a drama series trophy against 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.
Carrie said it was a 'challenge' just making 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' aka hospice care
However, Coon said she was 'gratified' that co-executive producers Sonja Warfield and Julian Fellowes 'have embraced this breathless pace of storytelling' for season two after they 'dispatched a lot of exposition after season one'
The outspoken Democrat then pulled a tradwife move and confessed that her husband of nearly 11 years - Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts (R, pictured in 2022) - 'is responsible for all of our choices in terms of TV and film'
'It's one decision I don't have to make in the day. But I love it. I relish that side of it,' Carrie gushed
Coon 'immediately started to cry' 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 LA Lakers head coach Jack McKinney in HBO's Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty
'I immediately started to cry, and my family said, "You weren't crying when you got a nomination, but you're crying when Tracy gets a nomination,"' the Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire actress recalled to Deadline at the time
Carrie faces heavy competition for the outstanding lead actress in a drama series trophy against 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 nod for outstanding drama series, costumes, and production design while Christine Baranski - who plays Agnes van Rhijn - is up for outstanding supporting actress in a drama series when the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards air September 15 on ABC
The Gilded Age also received a nod for outstanding drama series, costumes, and production design while Christine Baranski - who plays Agnes van Rhijn - is up for outstanding supporting actress in a drama series when the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards air September 15 on ABC.
'I am thrilled for Christine. And of course, none of this would be possible for me without [my onscreen husband] Morgan Spector,' the Tony-nominated thespian added.
'He's just the most delightful scene partner. I think one of the things people are responding to the most is that very special marriage. Yes. There is no Bertha without George.'
On Monday, Deadline revealed Bill Camp, Merritt Wever, Leslie Uggams, and Lisagay Hamilton were added to the ensemble of the 1880s New York City-set series now in production on its third season.
Carrie - who has a MFA in acting from the University of Wisconsin–Madison - replaced Amanda Peet as Bertha Russell in The Gilded Age after she had to pull out over scheduling issues during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Coon (B-R) just returned from Thailand where she filmed a mystery role in the third season of Mike White's critically-acclaimed HBO series The White Lotus alongside (from L-R) Walter Goggins, Nicholas Duvernay, Aimee Lou Wood, Parker Posey, and Leslie Bibb
The Tony-nominated thespian also executive produced and stars as alcoholic Katie alongside onscreen sisters Natasha Lyonne (M) and Elizabeth Olsen (L) in Azazel Jacobs' critically-acclaimed family drama His Three Daughters, which premieres September 20 on Netflix
Coon just returned from Thailand where she 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.
'I think [Mike White is] playing with some really interesting dynamics. I think it's something he would continue to do if they let him, because I think he would like to get bigger and more international and put together weirder groups of people — that's what he's passionate about,' the SAG Award nominee told Vanity Fair's Little Gold Men podcast in April.
'And I think that's important in this world, to see people banging up against 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 really interesting way. He had a season about money; he had a season about sex. And this is his season about death.'
Carrie also executive produced and stars as alcoholic Katie alongside onscreen sisters Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen in Azazel Jacobs' critically-acclaimed family drama His Three Daughters, which premieres September 20 on Netflix.
