Carrie Coon Embraces Villainous Role in 'The Gilded Age'

Carrie Coon discusses her role as Bertha Russell in the HBO series "The Gilded Age," where she plays an ambitious new-money matriarch in 1880s New York City. Coon enjoys playing the character and embracing her capacity for ruthlessness, finding it freeing to portray someone so different from herself. She discusses Bertha's ambition, sacrifices, and blind spots, as well as the joy of playing big theatrical scenes and not taking herself too seriously. Coon also reflects on the parallels between the show's storyline and the struggle between old and new in society.