Carrie Coon says that ‘White Lotus’ Non-Bines cuts transcene
“The White Lotus” has become 3 politics in season, with one viral scene with Kate (Leslie Bibb) who refused to say if she voted for Donald Trump or not, shocking her friends Jaclyn (Michelle Monaghan) and Laurie (Carrie Coon). But the interaction originally had a more charged political context, Coon shares.
The star recently told Harper’s Bazaar That a detail about the personal life of her character was cut after the elections. The season was written and filmed before Trump was re -elected the president.
“You originally found that her daughter was actually non-binary, maybe trans, and they/they go,” said Coon. “You see Laurie struggling to explain it to her friends, who struggles to use them/them pronouns struggle with the language, which was all interesting.”
“It was just a short scene, but for me the question of whether Kate on Trump voted so much provocative and personally offensive to Laurie, given who her child is in the world,” Coon added.
According to the actor, Trump’s re-election has hesitated series maker Mike White to include that character detail in the last cut.
“The season was written before the elections. And in view of the way in which the Trump government has armed the Cultural War against Transgender even more since then, when the time came to reduce the episode, Mike thought the scene was so small and the subject was so great that it was not the right way to start that conversation,” Coon continued.
Coon also said that White deals with his characters with nuance: “They are not just one thing.”
“His father wrote a very influential book about what it was like to come out as a gay man in the Evangelical Church as an adult, who read many young men and were a very meaningful text for them in their own travels,” Coon said. “So Mike does not shy away from challenging cultural conversations, and I really appreciate that about his work.”
Bibb also commented on the Trump -oriented “White Lotus” scene in an interview with Variety. “When we were filming it, it actually felt like it would be irrelevant,” said Bibb. “It’s randomly up to date.”
