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Carrie Coons and Tracy Letts on their joint love for, and beyond, the theater

Safe to say, after recent star turns in "The Gilded Age" and the monologue of the year about friendship in "The White Lotus," Carrie Coon is having a moment. I asked her, "Would you agree with me that where you used to say you're at the bottom of the A-List …""I think I used to say, 'The bottom of the B-List,' but yeah," she corrected. "But don't we need to revise our assessment as where you are?" "Maybe," said Coon.

Carrie Coons and Tracy Letts on their joint love for, and beyond, the theater

Credit: CBS News

Key Highlights

  • "But the thing that's changed for me is that I was on 'The White Lotus,' and now I can be in a Broadway play.
  • That wasn't true for me five years ago." Carrie Coon starring in "Bug," now on Broadway.
  • CBS News The play is "Bug," which opened just this past week.
  • Coon is leveraging her newfound star power to play the demanding, harrowing lead role in this examination of paranoia, conspiracy, and loneliness.
  • And she is adamant that her success should not obscure a larger, sadder reality of the theater these days: "We live in a country that is fundamentally unsupportive of the arts.
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