I Love That People Don't Like Her

Carrie Coon on the 'myopic' character she plays on HBO's TheGildedAge and why showing Bertha's vulnerability added a fun twist On HBO's The Gilded Age, Carrie Coon stands out among the stacked ensemble cast (she was just one of 34 players to receive a SAG Award nom for best drama ensemble this year), in part because her lead role of Bertha Reynolds allows her to play a rare kind of character on TV these days: the female antihero. A member of the new-moneyed elite thanks to her robber baron husband, George (Morgan Spector), Bertha ruffles the feathers of Manhattan's social hierarchies particularly in season two, when an all-out public war erupts between Bertha and Lady Astor (Donna Murphy) as they favor dueling opera houses. [...]they root for their marriage, because their marriage is super sexy. Does getting into hair and makeup and period-specific costumes instantly put you into character? I started off as a very cerebral actor.