How’s Carrie Coon celebrating her third Emmy nomination — this time for her turn in Season 3 of Mike White’s The White Lotus — you ask?
“I’m working, which, again, is the best way to celebrate,” she told Deadline in an interview this morning. “I’m in Vancouver doing an independent film. I’m here with my whole family, so it’s very chaotic. The days are long, and it’s the kind of good, hard, fulfilling work I’ve been lucky to do. I’m very fortunate to be working right now.”
The actress — who previously scored noms for FX’s Fargo and HBO Max’s The Gilded Age, which is currently halfway through airing its third season — is in production for Harmonia, Guy Nattiv’s thriller that also stars Odessa Young, Lily James and Bella Ramsey, an HBO compatriot of Coon’s who scored a historic second Emmy nomination this morning as the first openly nonbinary actor.
“We’ve got a really big day today, so I’m packing all my snacks,” Coon said, adding that the project is “based on a true story of the filmmaker’s grandmother, who was a Polish Holocaust survivor. But the thing I’d like to say most is that I’m so thrilled for Bella Ramsey, who plays my daughter [in the movie], who also received an Emmy nomination this morning, and they’re the loveliest person, and I’m just thrilled for Bella.”
Speaking to her future on both HBO juggernauts, the Gone Girl actress said she leaves her fate up to the C-Suite executives.
“I have no say in the future of [The Gilded Age] — I’ll have to redirect you to the head of HBO,” Coon said. “The response so far has been tremendous, which gives us hope for the possibility of another season.” (As a note, The Gilded Age Season 3 will be eligible for nominations at the Emmys next year, as its premiere was outside the window of eligibility this year.)
Thanks to her White Lotus character Laurie’s on-point survival skills (Coon was a competitive runner in high school, and it showed as her New York-based lawyer booked it after hearing gunshots in the explosive finale), she could be the tie-in for Season 4 — an idea the actress is open to on one condition.
“I would certainly be open to it. I would prefer to work in the snow,” she said, alluding to her six months in Thailand in the humid heat. “It was the hottest I’ve ever been in my life, and it’s only getting hotter.”
As it stands, creator White has teased that he wants to “get a little bit out of the crashing waves of rocks vernacular” with the next installment, as all three seasons have been set in picturesque, beach-y environments with Hawaii and Italy serving as stages for Seasons 1 and 2, respectively. That leaves the door open for a ski chalet perhaps; Deadline reported earlier this year that the drama anthology was considering a Four Seasons hotel in Europe, with a source adding that “everything is on the table for next season” but that no decision has been made.
This year, the popular satire racked up 23 nominations overall, with a strong ensemble showing in the Supporting Actor/Actress in a Drama Series categories, thus matching its most recent nomination tally in 2023. (The series was not up for honors in 2024, as the dual strikes delayed the release of Season 3).
“I’m thrilled for the other members of my ensemble who were nominated this morning,” Coon concluded. “Of course, the reason we’re all nominated is because we were supported by a tremendous group of actors working under extreme, extreme circumstances. And so we all know that our nominations are entirely dependent on the work of our friends, and so we share this morning with them.”
