Carrie Coon enjoyed her breakout role on the intense HBO drama The Leftovers, where she played a woman struggling with the loss of her entire family. Coon has continued to give award-worthy emotional performances, but she wants to play a different sort of character.
In a recent profile from Vanity Fair, Coon revealed she really wants to star in comedy. “No one’s letting me do that,” she said. “My family is surprised by my career because it’s just not the way I occurred to them as a person at all.”
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Coon explained further about her reputation, “People are expecting to meet a very serious and lugubrious actress that needs a lot of special drinks or something.”
While Coon’s desire to do more comedic roles may surprise some, it’s not completely out of nowhere: her character Laurie on the latest season of The White Lotus, for instance, did get her fair share of funny moments. Not only did fans enjoy how gossipy she could get with her two-faced friends, but the scene of Laurie sprinting away from the gunfire in the finale became a big viral moment.
Carrie Coon’s monologue in the finale of The White Lotus the best of the season on many levels but this moment of Laurie running takes it all for me pic.twitter.com/6WTSjQ8Qn1
— graeme (@graemecgu) April 7, 2025Talking to Variety in August 2025, Coon addressed that unexpectedly funny moment hidden in an otherwise serious scene.
“There wasn’t direction. Look, I’m an American and I’m a New Yorker, and if you think I don’t know where the exits are in any building I’m in, then you’re not paying attention to the news,” Coon said. “I thought, what would a person do? A person would f**king run, would book it, and I’m fast.”
Coon added about the scene, “Some polite Thai workers were kind of scampering through in the background. I was like, ‘No, no, you need to have some Americans sprinting and hitting the deck, and jumping in the lagoon. The Americans are not playing. They know what this means!’”
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