Carrie Coon Says Her ‘White Lotus’ Character Was Written to Have a Non-Binary Child, but That Scene Was Cut After Trump’s Election

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Abigail Lee “The White Lotus” has gotten political during Season 3, with one viral scene that featured Kate (Leslie Bibb) declining to say whether she voted for Donald Trump or not, shocking her friends Jaclyn (Michelle Monaghan) and Laurie (Carrie Coon).

But the interaction originally had a more loaded political context, shares Coon. The star recently told Harper’s Bazaar that a detail about her character’s personal life was cut after the election.

The season was written and filmed before Trump was re-elected President. “You originally found out that her daughter was actually non-binary, maybe trans, and going by they/them,” Coon said. “You see Laurie struggling to explain it to her friends, struggling to use they/them pronouns, struggling with the language, which was all interesting.” “It was only a short scene, but for me, it did make the question of whether Kate voted for Trump so much more provocative and personally offensive to Laurie, considering who her child is in the world,” Coon added.

According to the actor, Trump’s re-election made series creator Mike White hesitate about including that character detail in the final cut. “The season was written before the election.