Sofia Carson on ‘Carry-On’ Being a ‘Christmaction’ Movie and the ‘Conversations’ Around a ‘Purple Hearts’ Sequel

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Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details on the plot and ending of “Carry-On,” now streaming on Netflix.

In “Carry-On,” Sofia Carson plays Nora, the pregnant girlfriend of Ethan (Taron Egerton), a TSA agent at LAX who has been blackmailed to take part in a plot to take down a plane with chemical weapons stashed in carry-on luggage.

Nora also works at the airport and the blackmailer (Jason Bateman) threatens to have her killed if Ethan doesn’t do what he says.

Carson received the script after her romantic drama “Purple Hearts,” became a huge hit on Netflix in 2022. “I remember reading the headline, which was ‘Carry-On, action, thriller, starring Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman as the villain, that takes place at LAX, produced by Amblin, Steven Spielberg,’” she tells me on the latest episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast. “And then in quotations, or in parentheses, was ‘Die Hard.’ I was like, ‘Say no more, say no more.’” It’s an extraordinary circumstance.