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5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Carrie Coon Reveals Her Husband Tracy Letts' Unique Vice: 'He Doesn't Do Drugs or Buy Cars'
During a June 16 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Carrie Coon revealed that her husband Tracy Letts is a fervent collector of DVDs The White Lotus star said that he owns "over 10,000," adding that more "arrive every day" The couple and their two children watch the movies together and post reviews on LetterboxdCarrie Coon is supportive of her husband Tracy Letts' unexpected vice. During a Monday, June 16 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, theThe White Lotus actress, 44, spoke with host Jimmy Fallon about Letts' shockingly large collection of DVDs. According to her, he owns "over 10,000" of them and more "arrive every day." "He doesn't do drugs or buy cars. It's fine," Coon jokingly rationalized to Fallon. She also shared how Letts' collection has become something of a family affair. Coon explained that she and Letts, who she marred in 2013, have a shared Letterboxd account where they share reviews of the movies that they're watching. Their two children — son Haskell, 7, and a 3-year-old daughter whose name has not been made public — even join in on the fun. "We used to post them on X, but now it's a hellscape," Coon said about the reviews. "And so now we decided we had to go to Letterboxd because we wanted to continue the tradition because people like the movie-watching lists." "And it turns out a lot of film students don't know things," she added. "Like, they've seen a meme from Deliverance, but they've never seen Deliverance. Or they've never seen An Unmarried Woman. Anyways, tons of films." Speaking about Haskell, the actress said, "We've been posting reviews from my son also because he's the only 7-year-old I know who you put a movie on, and he goes, 'Yes! It's in black and white!' " While their daughter is "a little bit more traditional," Coon added that Haskell is "a total cinephile." Their kids have weighed in on surprising movies. Earlier in 2025, they watched a silent version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. "The kids were surprisingly into this. The boy gives it a thousand stars," she said, noting Haskell's high praise. "The girl gives it 12 stars (because 12 is her favorite number)." In a review of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde the family wrote, "The boy gives it 100 stars, 'maybe more.' The girl made it nearly to the end and then called it quits." Coon confirmed that her kids did more than sit through the movie. She said her son "reads the titles out loud and kind of acts them out and then gets really excited. And my daughter sat through the whole thing. She's 3. I think she's just trying to impress her brother. She also likes Frozen, but, you know. One more obvious film that the family reviewed was 2024's The Wild Robot — "The boy gives it so many stars that he doesn't know how many stars he can give it." Another thing that Coon watched with Letts was the third season of HBO's The White Lotus, which she starred in. She told Fallon that the couple tuned in every week to watch the new episodes, adding that she forgot what had happened after filming. For a show that is notoriously shrouded in secrecy, Fallon wanted to know if Coon had a hard time keeping the plot a secret. "They collected our scripts in Thailand. We weren't allowed to have them out. But no, it was not hard because I don't see anyone or do anything or have any friends," she teased, adding, " And I think my parents watched the show, but they haven't mentioned it yet so I don't know for sure. So no, it was easy for me." Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. The White Lotus is now streaming on Max. Read the original article on People
Los Angeles Times
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
‘The Four Seasons' tackles marriage at midlife, with its relatable ups and downs
Before the word 'adult' attached to any form of media — books, movies, websites — became a synonym for 'pornographic,' it meant a sort of entertainment that was made for people who had experienced a little bit of life. People who wanted to read or see things that reflected their experience in a grown-up way, in which they could recognize familiar challenges, rendered as comedy or tragedy. It was the opposite of 'juvenile.' There was definitely a market for such things, perhaps even a market dominated by them — films like 'Kramer vs. Kramer,' 'The Big Chill' and 'An Unmarried Woman' pop to my aged mind. Even young(er) people, before they had the option of watching themselves exclusively, took an interest, if memory serves. (Maybe they still, do; let me know, young people.) The '49 and over' demographic may not be TV's most prized, but it's a fat slice of the population and many own televisions. So there is something old-fashioned about 'The Four Seasons,' a very watchable, breezy, bumpy new Netflix comedy from Tina Fey, Lang Fisher and Tracey Wigfield, remaking a super-successful 1981 movie about no-longer-young marrieds. (Alan Alda, who wrote, directed and starred in the film makes a cameo appearance here, so we may infer his approval.) The TV version adds original twists and new scenes — the series lasts twice as long as the film, after all — but generally follows the shape of the original story and the character of its characters, who share names with their prototypes (though Claudia has become Claude). It's an adult entertainment in the original sense, notwithstanding a character 'only' in her early 30s, with jokes about aches and pains, flagging energy, earlier bedtimes, the stresses of long relationships in longer lives, and here and there a sense of nostalgia for the people they used to be. Many will relate. The narrative gambit concerns three couples who meet for a holiday every three months, if you can imagine that. They are upper-middle class, upper-middle-age, and in such control of their lives that they can afford to take, like, a week off four times a year. Their vacation schedule brings them together in spring, summer, fall and winter — in that order, in the story — a plan that conveniently allows for Vivaldi's well-known violin concerti to fill up the soundtrack. Fey plays Kate, married to Jack (Will Forte), who is a history teacher; anyway, he is very hot on a biography of Napoleon. (It doesn't really matter what anyone does for work; some of them have jobs, but all of them have money.) Jack briefly worked for hedge-fund guy Nick (Steve Carell), at whose upstate New York lake house, shared with wife Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver), the first movement of this 'Four Seasons' takes place. Danny (Colman Domingo), who was in college with Jack and Kate, is an interior designer, married to Claude (Marco Calvani), an emotional Italian, whose main (pre)occupation is worrying about Danny's health. (Jack worries about his own health, but he is merely a hypochondriac.) It begins a little slow — a little 'why should we care about these people, with their abundant vacation time?' Perhaps it was just class resentment on my part. Soon enough, however, things start to percolate, with Nick's announcement that he is leaving Anne; her replacement in their pod is his dental hygienist, Ginny (Erika Henningsen, from Fey's 'Mean Girls' musical), a lively young woman in her 30s. (Her age — that is to say, she's an adult — will be pointed out.) No one speaks the words 'midlife crisis' — maybe that's not a thing anyone says anymore? (Research shows the term has been with us 60 years, long enough to have a midlife crisis of its own.) But both Nick and Ginny take pains to declare it's not like that. And it's true that Anne, currently addicted to playing some farm game on her iPad and not using the potting shed, complete with kiln, that Nick built her, has let joy leak from her life. Nick's energized romantic do-si-do destabilizes the group, and gives them something new to gossip about and compare their own lives with as they wobble through the ensuing year. Ginny comes into view in the third (summer) episode, set in the Bahamas, where, indulged by Nick, she has booked the six of them into an uncomfortable vegan eco-resort. (Naturally, the writers will have some fun at the expense of eco-veganism, and of the older characters' reaction to it.) Fall is set during parents weekend at the New England college where Kate and Jack, and Anne and Nick, each have a daughter enrolled (Ashlyn Maddox and Julia Lester, respectively) and where Kate, Jack and Danny were students. Winter finds them in a chalet up a snowy mountain, with a return to the lake house for circular closure. Dramatically, Carell's storyline is dominant, and he's sympathetic in a part that doesn't hesitate to make him look silly. But Fey, being Fey — 'SNL' headwriter, winner of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, named the best comedian of the 21st century by the Guardian, twice listed on the Time 100, four times chosen one of People magazine's most beautiful people, and the series' designated Least Quirky character — comes across as its hub, its central intelligence. (Which puts Forte's definitely quirky character at something of a disadvantage.) If one is as aware of watching famous faces like Fey and Carell and Forte and Domingo at work as following the people they're playing, of course it's nice to see them, and knowing them as actors doesn't relieve the tension their characters create as they scrape against each other. (Everybody's got problems.) Across the course of the show we will learn that marriage is work, that not everybody believes in soulmates, that people in a new relationship might have more and noisier sex than those who have been together for many years, and that humans have the capacity to drive one another crazy, perhaps especially on vacation — a sad irony. There will be tension within and between the couples; some of their annoyance may in turn annoy the viewer. But that, I suppose, is the desired effect, and when the characters do wake up to one another, 'The Four Seasons' can be quite moving.
