Carrie Coon started her Wednesday with extreme fatigue from lack of sleep and a full house of visiting family when she learned about her first nomination for playing socialite Bertha Russell in HBO’s The Gilded Age.
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But it wasn’t until she learned that her husband Tracy Letts received a nomination for playing Jack McKinney on HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise Of The Lakers Dynasty did she actually start to cry. The Gilded Age ended up earning six nominations — including one for Best Drama and another for Supporting Actress for Christine Baranski — but she more giddy to be the one to inform her husband about his shout-out in the guest-starring actor category.
“I sent a video to my husband and said, ‘Tracy, you have an Emmy nomination. Oh my God,'” she tells Deadline. “I Immediately started to cry, and my family said, ‘you weren’t crying when you got a nomination, but you’re crying when Tracy gets a nomination. So we have his and hers Emmy nominations! He’s in the city doing a photo shoot, and that was the first he’d heard of it. He had no idea. He watched the live stream to see if I got a nomination, and then he turned it off so he wouldn’t be rude.”
Coon had just returned from Thailand last week where she was shooting season 3 of The White Lotus , only to begin production Thursday on season 3 of The Gilded Age. She admits it’s been a long, drawn-out process for The Gilded Age to garner a following, not to mention generate interest from TV Academy voters.
“We were on the bubble,” Coon says about the downtime before season 2. “We really didn’t think we were going to come back. Our options had lapsed. It looked very unlikely, but it was the streaming. it was the number of people watching the show and loving the show.”
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“I am thrilled for Christine. And of course, none of this would be possible for me without Morgan Spector [who plays Bertha’s husband, George],” she added. “He’s just the most delightful scene partner. I think one of the things people are responding to the most is that very special marriage. Yes. There is no Bertha without George.”
The Gilded Age Creator & EP Julian Fellowes released this statement: “It is always an honour to be noticed by the Television Academy, and it is especially rewarding when a new show is selected. Six Emmy nominations for The Gilded Age is more than I could have dreamed of, and I am absolutely thrilled. They have provided a public recognition of the wonderful work of our cast and crew, all of them stars in my eyes, and I am so grateful for that.”
As for the third season of The Gilded Age , Coon had this to tease about Bertha: “She’s really secure in her position in New York. And of course, we all know when we left the end of season two that her next task was getting her daughter married off to the right person. If you know Bertha, she’ll stop at nothing to get exactly what she wants, but there may be consequences.”
The Gilded Age also received nominations for costumes and production design.
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