Carrie Coon told The New Yorker in 2018 that her “family was always wondering why [she] ended up playing people who were mentally ill, insane, downtrodden, and a little crazy.” Those types, she observed, reflected what was available for women in film and television. “Most female parts are written basically as hysterical women,” she said. “We’re always trying to fit women’s stories into this male structure…and I think a female hero story is not that. It’s something else. Women are trying to recover their voices, which is a much quieter, deeply existential, and frustrating journey.”
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