Carrie Coon
Appearances
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
It's so exciting. We get to do all these companion things now to TV shows. It's not just a TV show anymore. It's a podcast. It's a content suite.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Oh, it's just like any, I mean, old friends are like family. So as soon as you're reunited, you default to your position in the dynamic, don't you? And I think what Laurie is starting to question, what it's forced into relief is Laurie's own choices about her life. You know, there's always the presumption that other people are judging you, even if they're not actually thinking about you.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
But Laurie, I think, feels that they must all be judging and thinking about her. And she's not feeling great about her life right now.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Right. But she's also participating in that system, right? As soon as somebody walks away, we're talking about them. Of course, she has the weird pressure of having a famous friend, which is strange when you've known someone your whole life and then suddenly they're catapulted into the public eye. You sort of start to observe them as an outsider in a way.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
So she has that relationship, of course, with Jacqueline. And then, you know, her other friend is pulling away from her ideologically, I would say, which is its own kind of shock for her. And I think she feels righteous in her positions, you know, wrestling with what she's wrestling with at home. And she's not really been open with her friends about how hard it's been for her in her personal life.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Because she's pretending everything's fine, which we all are doing.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
I am the Jacqueline from high school. I mean, honestly, right? I'm the person from my high school who's now living in the public eye, right? And so what I have, what I've received, you know, my life is, I don't get recognized on the street or anything, so I'm not living that life. It's all happening on the internet.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
But the thing that I've actually been conscious of is that the people from my childhood are actually quite warm and loving. You know, they'll reach out on Facebook and sort of celebrate my success because I think everybody feels a little hometown pride, right?
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
If you come from a small town like I come from, when somebody gets out and is sort of doing well, there's something there to celebrate and you feel like you're participating in something positive. I have not received a lot of negative energy and maybe it's because I'm from the Midwest.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
And people aren't, you know, as jaded as they would be, like, from New York when everybody went to Juilliard and only one of you got out. You know, so I don't have that sort of thing. So, I mean, so I guess I'm Jacqueline, right?
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Yeah, right. Which I also, you know, did. Yeah, no, I was definitely not a good friend. for a long time. I didn't understand female friendship until really late in my life. And so, in some ways, this storyline is pretty far from me because I actually found friendship with women very challenging when I was a young woman, just because of the way that I was taught.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
I just didn't have a relationship to what female friendship was. And so, in some ways, that was the most underexplored part for me in jumping into this friendship with these women, because I don't actually have a lot of old friends from my past like that. I don't have these holdover relationships in the same way.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
And wherever you go, there you are. I mean, the point that Laurie is making is how little they've actually changed in so many ways. And also because... ostensibly because they're the same age, they're supposed to be occupying similar positions in their life in terms of their home lives or their success. And so inevitably you start to compare yourself. That's the world we're living in.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
And when those women are gossiping about each other, it's all about insecurity and it's all about justifying the choices they've made and making them feel better about themselves, about where they are. finding something to cherry pick that they've done better. It's just human nature. It's the curse. It's the curse of being a human being, you know?
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
It's just, you can go to Thailand, but like all your stuff is there with you and you're carrying it and unpacking it all the time.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
It sure is. And, you know, Lori's struggling with her, we think, some alcoholism, right? She's looking a little old and a little tired.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Exactly. And I think she's not doing work. We also made the choice, Rebecca Hickey and I and Michelle, my other makeup artist, we decided that Lori would also have the wrong nail color. So Lori's stuff is intentionally just a little bit off. Yeah. Right? She didn't have time to go shopping. Her hats are a little off. She didn't pack very well. She's a New Yorker.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
She doesn't spend a lot of time in the resort life. So she's like, it's not quite right. And she feels it. She feels how it's just not quite right. You know, she feels like the odd man out.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Oh, that's so interesting. You know, I'm a middle child. I'm a middle child of five. And so I've always been... A linchpin, a harmonizer. I don't feel myself as an alpha. Now, that's not true. I can't be entirely objective about my way in the world because I was also captain of my soccer team and class president.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
So clearly I am an alpha and would express myself very forcefully, but that's not the way I saw myself. And so for me, playing somebody like Bertha feels... far from me. I'm like, no, no, I'm the harmonizer. I'm the person who's bringing balance to these relationships. I'm not dominating. But that's not the way I occur to other people, I think.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
And so it's an interesting act of like, oh, actually, I have to sort of be willing to recognize and embrace these parts of myself that I don't actually see That's not how I see myself. It's not part of my self-concept. But it's really fun to lean into. In that regard, Lori actually feels much closer to who I am.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
I feel that in my life, I always felt like, for whatever reason, the way I grew up and being in the middle, I always felt like a little bit left out. I always felt like left out waiting to happen. And even as in feeling like an interloper in Hollywood, you know, I come from a small town in Ohio and I always felt like everybody knew things I didn't know.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
On a set, in fashion, like every space I go in, I'm at a deficit. I'm operating with some deficit and I'm pretending, right? That's the imposter syndrome, kind of classic. And I think... For me, that part of Lori, I feel such tenderness for her. And I, like I say, because I struggled in my life with female friendship because of the way I grew up, I feel like... Just feel so much love for her.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Whereas Bertha always feels like I'm kind of putting on something, but it's something really delicious to put on. And to be asked to walk into a room with that kind of confidence was very instructive to me as a woman coming up in this industry. Like putting that skin on is actually really, it teaches you something about walking into any room as the person that you are.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Exactly, right.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Yeah, she kind of doesn't go far enough, does she? But she's really having a good time. I'm glad to see that she has that moment before we go full White Lotus in the end of the season. I will also say that that was the first day on set for all those guys. The pool scene was their first day.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Now, Valentin had been with us, you know, Arnas had been with us, but the two gentlemen who popped in, they just, they hadn't actually, so they just kind of came in, guns blazing, and they were so much fun. We had such a great time in the pool that night. So I want to give them a lot of credit.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
They're both very accomplished actors in their own countries, but they, but they, but that was like their first day was to have to like jump into a pool naked in a show that had been already running for several months. So I have to give those actors so much credit. They were so playful and so much fun. And they made that a lot easier.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
But I do love that Mike gives Lori this real moment where she gets to embrace the nostalgia, right? She does feel like finally the girl's trip she wanted is happening before things start to fall apart. And, yeah, I was disappointed for her, too. She didn't get to – I know.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Yes. Feeling herself. A tribute to my mother. A little dance. Oh, that's wonderful. A dance tribute to my mom. It's just a little off rhythmically. Yeah. But, yeah, it was such a fun night. It's really a hoot. And it's very White Lotus, right, to kind of be that irreverent and hedonistic.
The White Lotus Official Podcast
Ep. 5: “Full Moon Party” with Carrie Coon and Parker Posey
Thank you so much. It's good to see you.