How Carrie Coon Hid Her Pregnancy on 'The Gilded Age' (Exclusive)
etonline.comCarrie Coon kick-starts a war between old money and new money in creator Julian Fellowes’ latest, must-see costume drama,, when she moves in across the street from aging, wealthy aunts, Agnes van Rhijn (Christine Baranski) and Ada Brook (Cynthia Nixon).
While her character is a controlling mother of two older children played by Taissa Farmiga and Harry Richardson, Coon had to hide her real-life pregnancy from the screen. “I got pregnant really early,” she tells ET’s Rachel Smith about her second child with husband Tracy Letts, a daughter she gave birth to during the summer of 2021.
Luckily for Coon, she didn’t have to rely on old TV tropes when actresses were often forced to hide their growing baby bumps behind strategically placed objects or by holding oversized purses, laundry baskets or other items in front of them.
Other times, they’re dressed in oversized or baggy clothes to disguise any physical changes. But that wasn’t the case here, which saw Coon donning intricately corseted costumes as the showy Bertha, who flaunts her wealth with her lavish taste in dresses. “There were a few months where I got to wear the costumes as they existed.
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