Carrie Coon reveals White Lotus scene about…
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Carrie Coon revealed in a new interview with Harper’s Bazaar that particulars about her character Laurie’s backstory was cut from the incest-filled third season of the HBO collection as a result of of real-world occasions.
“There was a bit more context to her home life. You originally found out that her daughter was actually non-binary, maybe trans, and going by they/them,” mentioned Coon, 44.
Carrie Coon in “The White Lotus” Season 3.
“You see Laurie struggling to explain it to her friends, struggling to use they/them pronouns, struggling with the language, which was all interesting,” she continued. “It was only a short scene, but for me, it did make the question [in episode 3] of whether Kate voted for Trump so much more provocative and personally offensive to Laurie, considering who her child is in the world.”
But in keeping with Coon, creator Mike White cut the scene during post-production after Donald Trump gained the 2024 presidential election.
Donald Trump at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey in Aug. 2024. AP
Carrie Coon, Michelle Monaghan and Leslie Bibb in “The White Lotus.” Fabio Lovino/HBO
Carrie Coon in “The White Lotus.” Fabio Lovino/HBO
“The season was written before the election. And considering the way the Trump administration has weaponized the cultural war against transgender people even more since then, when the time came to cut the episode down, Mike felt that the scene was so small and the topic so big that it wasn’t the right way to engage in that conversation,” she mentioned.
Despite White’s resolution, Coon famous that the Emmy Award winner “doesn’t shy away from challenging cultural conversations.”
“And I really appreciate that about his work,” the actress added.
Mike White at “The White Lotus” Season 2 premiere in Los Angeles in October 2022. Getty Images
Carrie Coon at “The White Lotus” Season 3 premiere in Feb. 2025. ZUMAPRESS.com
In “The White Lotus,” Coon performs a New York-based company lawyer and up to date divorcée who reunites together with her two longtime mates Kate (Leslie Bibb) and Jaclyn (Michelle Monaghan) in Thailand.
As Coon talked about, Episode 3 options a scene the place Kate implies her husband voted for Trump and says that she’s an Independent — which doesn’t sit effectively with Laurie and Jaclyn.
Carrie Coon, Michelle Monaghan and Leslie Bibb in “The White Lotus.” Fabio Lovino/HBO
Bibb, 51, beforehand instructed Variety that White, 54, wrote the Trump scene earlier than the most recent election.
“When we were filming it, it actually felt like it was going to be irrelevant,” Bibb instructed the outlet. “It’s randomly current. I think it’s so easy to be divisive, and it felt like Mike — not that he wasn’t picking a side — was just showing that not everybody’s a villain. She wasn’t going to ruin this holiday over who she voted for.”
Donald Trump within the Oval Office of the White House on March 28. Bloomberg through Getty Images
Leslie Bibb in “The White Lotus” Season 3 HBO
Bibb additionally mentioned that she didn’t suppose about how people might react to politics within the show whereas she was prepping for the scene as a result of “then I’m putting the cart before the horse.”
“I love Kate,” Bibb added, “and I didn’t judge her. I love how she can never have silence, she doesn’t want to ruin anything, she always wants to keep this group together.”
“The White Lotus” airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on HBO and Max.
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