Why Tony Nominee Carrie Coon and Pulitzer Prize Winner Tracy Letts Got Married in a Hospital | 半岛体育

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Broadway News Why Tony Nominee Carrie Coon and Pulitzer Prize Winner Tracy Letts Got Married in a Hospital The two fell in love despite high tensions working on Who鈥檚 Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Actor Carrie Coon was recently nominated for an Emmy for her work on the third season of Fargo. But before she was a success on screen, she earned a Theatre World Award and a Tony nomination for her portrayal of Honey in Broadway's 2012 revival of Who鈥檚 Afraid of Virginia Woolf? It was during that play that Coon met her now-husband, actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts.

On Late Night With Seth Meyers, Meyers joked that the Edward Albee play is not usually one you think of when you think of happy marriages and good starts. But Coon said her experience was different. 鈥淚n fact, our production was so successful because Pam MacKinnon, our director, and then Tracy and Amy [Morton], who were playing George and Martha, they approached it as a love story,鈥� said Coon. 鈥淭racy would always say, 鈥榃ouldn鈥檛 you want your partner to fight for you that hard?鈥樷�

Coon and Letts wed in September 2013 in a hospital. Coon explained that they had gotten their marriage license in Illinois, which requires you to get married within 60 days of registering or else you need to go back to City Hall and re-register. On Day 59, Coon and Letts were planning to get married the next day when Letts didn鈥檛 feel well. After heading to the emergency room, Letts was rushed in for emergency gall bladder surgery. Still, the two didn鈥檛 want to have to re-register, so they were married in the hospital. 鈥淢y husband was so high,鈥� she joked. 鈥滺is gown was slightly off the shoulder.鈥�

Their anniversary is coming up, and so are the Emmys. Having appeared on Fargo and The Leftovers, both shows with ambiguous endings, Meyers asked her if she would weigh in.

鈥淲hat鈥檚 important is not the experience I have, it鈥檚 the experience you have, and I wouldn鈥檛 want to rob anybody of that moment of sitting with what happens in those shows and thinking about for themselves what they believe,鈥� said Coon. It鈥檚 a lesson she actually learned in the theatre.

鈥淚 had an acting teacher that used to say鈥擨 used to always be crying in scenes鈥攁nd he鈥檇 say, 鈥機arrie dry it up. It doesn鈥檛 matter if you cry, it matters if we cry.鈥� I think that鈥檚 exactly right.鈥�

 
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