Carrie Coon on ‘open’ marriage rumours with Tracy Letts
Carrie Coon has cleared the whole lot up about her marriage with Tracy Letts.
The actress set the file straight after a easy phrase alternative led to some main on-line hypothesis about her marriage to Tracy Letts.
The White Lotus actress, 44, took to X (previously Twitter) on Tuesday, February 25, to make clear her remarks after her look on the WTF With Marc Maron podcast triggered fairly the stir.
“Settle down, internet! I said, ‘open minded’ not ‘open.’” she wrote, making it clear that she hadn’t been describing an “open” marriage—only one constructed on honesty and, nicely, a bit enjoyable.
Coon initially caught followers’ consideration on Monday, February 24, when she mentioned her and Letts’ distinctive dynamic. Their marriage, she defined, consists of brazenly chatting about on-set crushes and declaring folks they discover enticing.
“We’re not jealous people. We don’t have any of those hang-ups,” she shared. “We didn’t ever want to be with the police. You know?”
Actually, discussing who catches their eye has turn out to be a part of their routine.
“It’s so fun. I love it,” Coon stated, including that her husband has a very observant eye. “He’s the kind of person who sees everybody on the street. And every woman.”
“He always tells me who he has a crush on,” she continued. “We love talking about it. It’s fun. It’s interesting to know what your partner’s into. It’s titillating.”
Naturally, Marc Maron needed to ask—does it ever cross a line?
“We don’t really like lines. Lines are really boring,” Coon quipped, proving as soon as once more that she and Letts, 59, function on their very own phrases.
The actress went on to share that her husband’s outlook on life was formed by private tragedy—shedding his late accomplice, Holly Wantuch, in 1998 at simply 33 years outdated.
“Tracy, you guys know, you both have lost partners in your lives, which is a devastating thing,” Coon stated.
“I don’t think he would mind me saying, I think Tracy understood then from a very young age because he went through it, he would never begrudge anyone a human experience.”
That have, she famous, shifted his complete perspective.
“Every day after that, for him, was a gift he got to continue living in the world,” she defined. “He sort of embraced being a person of appetites. Acknowledging that we have these proclivities.”
Coon—who shares two youngsters with Letts—then dove right into a deeper dialog about conventional relationships. “Monogamy is sort of something we’ve imposed on ourselves,” she remarked, hinting that their marriage isn’t precisely by-the-book.
“You kinda have to be open minded about what makes you feel—what engages you in the world and what sparks your imagination and where your passion is,” she added. “If you’re willing to stay open to that, then you’re living a more full life.”
So, no, Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts aren’t in an “open” marriage. However they’re positively maintaining issues fascinating.