Carrie Coon on Filming ‘White Lotus’ and ‘Gilded Age’ Back to Back, Morgan Spector Being a ‘Zaddy’ and Why Self-Tapes Are ‘Disrespectful’ to Actors
variety.comMarc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Carrie Coon has had quite a year. Not only is she going into the Emmys as a nominee for her work as Bertha Russell in “The Gilded Age” but she spent months in Thailand shooting the third season of Mike White’s HBO anthology series “The White Lotus.” “I got back from Thailand a few weeks ago, and I went back to ‘The Gilded Age’ 48 hours after I landed,” Coon says on the latest episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast. “I wasn’t supposed to stay that long, but ‘The White Lotus’ ran over a little bit because of the weather.
I didn’t have any time in between, and it was very jarring, to say the least, to go from wearing bathing suits to wearing a corset.
It was a little extreme. “And I was terrible. I was just terrible the first couple days,” she continues. “I said, ‘You guys, I just need a little more time.’ I think everyone was like, ‘Yeah, she does.
She needs a little extra time to settle in.’” Earlier this year, Coon reprised her starring role in the second installment of “The Ghostbusters” franchise reboot.
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