Carrie Coon revealed that a storyline that involved her character and her child being non binary or transgender on The White Lotus was cut. The actress, who stars in the latest season of The White Lotus, shared the revelation a recent interview with Harper’s Bazaar . Carrie plays Laurie , a struggling divorce lawyer that goes on a girls' trip to Thailand with her two close friends, which unveils the toxic nature of their friendship.
Laurie has a daughter named Ellie but not much is revealed on the show about her or Laurie's life in general in New York City. "There was a bit more context to her home life. You originally found out that her daughter was actually non-binary, maybe trans, and going by they/them," Carrie explained to the outlet.
"You see Laurie struggling to explain it to her friends, struggling to use they/them pronouns, struggling with the language, which was all interesting." The Gilded Age star continued. "It was only a short scene, but for me, it did make the question [in episode 3] of whether Kate voted for Trump so much more provocative and personally offensive to Laurie, considering who her child is in the world.
" Carrie went on to say that season three was "written before" the November election that saw Donald Trump re-elected. She stated that with the Trump administration targeting the transgender community, The White Lotus creator Mike White felt the scene wasn't the "right way" to handle this significant topic. "And considering the way the Trump admin.
