Sounds like a “White Lotus” storyline.
Carrie Coon, 44, appeared on the “WTF with Marc Maron” podcast Monday and said that she and her husband, Tracy Letts, let each other check out other people — and openly talk about who they have the hots for.
Coon later had to clarify that she is not in an open marriage.
“Settle down, internet! I said ‘open minded’ not ‘open,’” she wrote on X on Tuesday.
Coon and Letts, 59, have been married since 2013. They have two children together, son Haskell, who was born in 2018, and a daughter, who was born in 2021.
On Marc Maron’s podcast, Coon described the couple as “not jealous people.”
“That’s the nice thing about a marriage where everything’s on the table; you talk about everything,” she said. “We don’t have any of those hang-ups. So we never wanna be, like, the police, you know? So it’s nice to be in a relationship where we can always talk about, like, ‘Who are you attracted to on set?’ It’s so fun. I love it.”
The “Gilded Age” star said that her playwright husband is “the kind of person who sees everybody on the street. And every woman.”
“He always tells me who he has a crush on,” Coon explained. “We love talking about it. It’s fun. It’s interesting to know what your partner’s into. It’s titillating.”
Coon also declared that the couple “don’t really like lines. Lines are really boring.”
Before marrying Coon, Letts was in a relationship with fellow actor Holly Wantuch until her death in 1998. The tragedy, according to Coon, is why Letts is so relaxed about how he behaves in their marriage.
“I think Tracy understood then from a very young age because he went through it, he would never begrudge anyone a human experience,” she shared.
“Every day after that, for him, was a gift he got to continue living in the world,” Coon explained. “He sort of embraced being a person of appetites. Acknowledging that we have these proclivities.”
She added, “I don’t think either one of us would want to keep the other from living.”
Coon and Letts met in 2010 while working on a Broadway revival of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
Letts has won a Pulitzer Prize and two Tony Awards for his playwriting. As an actor, he’s appeared in films like “Lady Bird,” “The Post,” “Ford v Ferrari” and “Little Women.”
