The White Lotus’ Carrie Coon Drew on US Gun Violence Fears for Finale Sprint
Actress Carrie Coon has come out to address her sprinting sequence in the finale episode of The White Lotus Season 3. She portrays Laurie Duffy in the third installment of the hit HBO series, embodying a corporate lawyer from New York who embarks on a trip with her two friends following her divorce. One of the concluding scenes in the show sees Coon’s character make a run for her life, which has since sparked a discussion about the rampant gun violence in the US.
So, here’s what the two-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee had to say about the aforementioned scene.
Carrie Coon talks about her sprint in The White Lotus finale
In White Lotus Season 3 Episode 8, Carrie Coon’s Laurie and her mates, Michelle Monaghan’s Jaclyn and Leslie Bibb’s Kate, inadvertently land themselves in a precarious situation when they get caught up between Rick’s scuffle with Jim (Scott Glenn). When Rick (Walton Goggins) decides to open fire on his rival, Laurie decides to leave everything behind and run to safeguard her life.
While speaking about the sequence with Variety, Coon noted, “There wasn’t direction. I knew the gunshot was going to happen, and we were going to run into the bushes, essentially.” The Gilded Age star then explained how her time living in the US, which experienced a whopping 502 mass shootings last year, assisted her in filming the finale scene of The White Lotus Season 3 in question.
“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 stated. “I thought, ‘What would a person do?’ A person would f—— run, would book it.”
Moreover, Carrie Coon even helped in the creative process behind the sprint scene. She suggested the addition of panicking Americans in the sequence due to the unfortunate commonality of such shootings in the US. “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!” the actress recalled.
