As someone from a working class Ohio family, Carrie Coon didn’t think much about acting as a plausible career path. But her post-college work in regional theater led her to Steppenwolf in Chicago, which in turn led her to Broadway, and ultimately to a Hollywood career. Carrie and Marc talk about her first movie being being a baptism by David Fincher’s unique fire, meeting her husband Tracy Letts, learning that acting is not pretending, and spending six months in Thailand for the new season of The White Lotus.Click here to submit a question for an upcoming Ask Marc Anything bonus episode on The Full Maron. Sign up here for WTF+ to get the full show archives and weekly bonus material! https://plus.acast.com/s/wtf-with-marc-maron-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Chapter 1: What is Carrie Coon's background?
Ja, ohne Zweifel. Ohne Zweifel.
Aber die Schuld und Scham religiös, als opposed to just free-floating, ist wahrscheinlich mehr spezifisch.
Ich meine, Schuld und Scham ist auch wie eine Parenting-Strategie, die die Leute seit Jahrhunderten gelegt haben, glaube ich. Ja. Das ist so, wie du die Moral erzeugt hast. Deine Moral basiert alles auf Schmerzen und Schmerzen.
Chapter 2: How did Carrie Coon start her acting career?
Ja. Ja. Ja. Ja. Ja. Ja.
Ja. Ja. Ja. Ja. Nein, das ist eine echte Sache, Marc. Aber du kannst daran arbeiten.
Ja, aber okay, also mit dem Arbeit, das du gemacht hast, was war es, mit dem du sie nicht vertrauen konntest? War es echt, oder war es nur eine seltsame, kinderliche Sache, dass der Fehl nicht mehr praktisch war?
Es ist echt, so weit es dein Leben beeinflusst. Ich meine, ich denke, wenn du in der Mitte des Westens wächst, und meine Eltern... Wo bist du geboren? Ich bin in Ohio geboren.
In Ohio? Ich habe fünf Kinder in meiner Familie.
Welche Stadt? Es heißt Copley. Es ist außerhalb von Akron. So it's like Akron is a very urban area, but we were in a very rural area that had been in my family since the 1800s. But it's pretty, right? It's beautiful. I loved growing up in that place.
Since the 1800s?
Yeah, my dad's family lived on that property actually. Was it a farm? Yeah, it was a farm.
Where did they come from? Scandinavia?
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Chapter 3: What was it like working with David Fincher?
Yeah, my brother has three adopted kids.
Yeah, it's really... And back then, when my sister was adopted from El Salvador, which was in the middle of a civil war, they were just like, good luck, Christians. There was no trauma counseling. There was no sense of, like, telling my parents, like, hey, get ready. There could be some real deep psychological shit going on.
Yeah.
They weren't... And they come from a generation that, like, it's all Stoicism. Nobody was going to therapy.
Even the scientists?
I was the first person in my family to go to therapy.
Really? Yeah.
Absolut.
Und ist da ein volles politisches Spektrum zwischen den Schwestern?
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Chapter 4: What does Carrie Coon think about acting?
Ja, ich weiß, sicher. Ich meine, man kann es zu ein paar Tics und Habits brechen.
Ja. Sicher.
Aber das ist etwas. Ich meine, es ist so lustig. Ja, es ist etwas. Ich habe das immer über alte Method-Aktoren bemerkt. Sie machen klar Jobs, die sie nicht alle investiert haben. Sie haben immer noch diese Tics und Habits, die sie durch all das verbringen. Das ist wahr.
Aber es ist mehr Spaß, ich denke, es ist mehr Spaß, zu wissen, dass es da ist und es da ist und es da ist. Well, yeah, well, I mean, I make yourself.
Well, I don't do much too much acting. But like when I really try to do it, it's, you know, my first if I get cast in something that's not of type, I realize like, oh, this guy's not neurotic. So I can just turn that part off.
Right. And you find that liberating.
Well, yeah, because it's a crutch to do that constant self-reflection thing. To have a guy that doesn't do that is like, sure, why wouldn't that be good? But then you doubt, like, well, what's his inner life? How's that going to matter?
If you can just turn off all this other self-awareness and just live in this present where this guy doesn't take responsibility for certain things, well, that's nice for a little while.
Yeah, that is nice. Well, isn't that the lovely thing about acting? Is that invitation, though, outside of...
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