![]() What did you relish about recreating that period? They don’t usually last but here we are 10 years later, so you never know. Our marriage is the product of a showmance. As my husband says, people working in a bank are actually sleeping together. But one of the great things about this job is we get to fantasise and be intimate with other people in a way that’s hopefully safe. There’s a step-by-step plan and you’re not supposed to violate those established pillars. In theatre, you have to do it every night, so there’s an intimacy protocol and scenes are much more codified. We were making a scrappy independent film, so were left to our own devices and the budget only allowed us to shoot it two or three times. I’ve seen a bigger difference in theatre than on screen. How has shooting sex scenes changed in the post-# Me Too era? Even when he was in the background of my scenes, I couldn’t take my eyes off him. Now he’s moving into an interesting phase, taking on more character-driven parts. ![]() Jude’s a character actor trapped in a leading man’s body. It felt like rehearsing a play – two theatre actors digging into the material. It’s very different culturally so I could really tap into that feeling of being an American abroad. We stayed in Hampstead and filmed a lot in Oxfordshire, near Blenheim. It’s very much a fish-out-of-water story for my character, Allison, so it was helpful to spend an extended period in parts of the UK I’d never visited. The protagonists move from New York to England. Photograph: Kristina Bumphrey/StarPix/Rex/Shutterstock ‘The Nest was utterly recognisable to me as a real marriage’: Carrie Coon with her husband, Tracy Letts, in 2019. Some had an uncomfortable time watching it. Others find it woefully bleak, which might hint at how honest their own marriage is. I find it hopeful because the couple cut through the bullshit and reach a more honest place. What’s fascinating is how people respond to the film’s ending. Now I’ve found a partner who I can be truly honest with, I never want to go back. When I was younger, let’s say I didn’t always conduct myself with integrity in my relationships. ![]() But bit by bit, they fail to communicate, tacit agreements get broken and it all adds up.ĭid it make you reflect on your own marriage? It was utterly recognisable to me as a real marriage – one that started out as fun and sexy with a solid foundation. ![]() What struck me when I first read the script was how it’s an unusually honest depiction. What do you think the film says about marriage? The Nest portrays the disintegration of a married couple’s relationship. He’s currently away filming in New York, hence the solo parenting. It was on this play that she met her husband, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright and actor Tracy Letts. Coon’s breakthrough came in a 2010 Chicago production of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which transferred to Broadway and earned her a Tony nomination. It’s overdue reward for a versatile performer who came up through regional theatre and served her dues on stage throughout her 20s. ![]()
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