For The Gilded Age star Carrie Coon, as quickly as she places on her character’s corseted costume, she absolutely immerses herself into her position as new-money matriarch Bertha Russell within the Nineteenth-century drama.
“You possibly can’t assist however be remodeled whenever you placed on such costumes — they reshape your physique totally,” the actress, 43, tells ipromiseyoumedia on this week’s subject. One other factor that immediately places her into the position? The eyebrows.
Coon says make-up artist Nicki Ledermann “spends this meticulous period of time” on her eyebrows in order that they match her wig.
“After all, I am not a brunette,” she notes. “I feel my crew wouldn’t acknowledge me in the event that they handed me on the road as a result of I look so completely different.”
Coon, who scored a 2024 Emmy nomination for excellent actress in a drama sequence for her position, says it isn’t as glamorous because it appears to be like sporting closely embellished robes with gloves, hats and complicated hairstyles to nail the aesthetic of the interval drama.
“Once you get to 16 hours in a corset and excessive heels, you simply begin to lose your thoughts,” she tells ipromiseyoumedia. “You begin to perceive why girls modified 5 or 6 instances a day, the upper-class girls, as a result of they wanted a break.”
At any time when she will have a breather throughout filming, she takes benefit of each minute she will get. “Amber and I, she’s my dresser, we time ourselves and see how briskly we will get out and in of bodices and corsets and issues as a result of then we all know how lengthy our breaks may be,” Coon says. “So we all the time make a sport out of it.”
Filming for season 3 of The Gilded Age is presently underway, and whereas Coon says she was “actually shocked by a few the twists we have now coming,” she’s nonetheless ready to see all of the scripts. “I’m wanting to be shocked,” she says.
Little question she’s hoping for a scene the place all of her costars come collectively. “It is humorous, our favourite days are when we have now large ballroom scenes or large charity occasion scenes as a result of all of us are there,” she explains.
“Usually, I am confined to working with Morgan [Spector] and Taissa [Farmiga] and Harry [Richardson],” Coon continues. “However we have now essentially the most enjoyable when it is everybody collectively as a result of it actually does devolve into the previous theater camp. We actually do have a ball. There’s loads of singing, loads of complaining, loads of dancing, and we simply chuckle.”
The Gilded Age seasons 1 and a couple of are streaming on Max.
