Carrie Coon is getting candid about her expertise with getting old in Hollywood and the roles she’s supplied.
The 44-year-old actress just lately instructed Glamour magazine throughout an interview that she’s usually typecast to play extra mature and “complicated” characters due to her choice to not get Botox, corresponding to with Bertha Russell in The Gilded Age and Laurie in The White Lotus season three.
“All of us have a approach we current on the planet,” she defined. “The notion of me is that I’m verbal, mental. My voice is decrease and I don’t have Botox, so I are likely to play older than I’m. And so I’ve at all times had a gravitas or some authority.”
Botox, which prevents wrinkles within the face, is a standard medical process in immediately’s society, particularly in Hollywood. Whereas Coon is amongst those that have opted out of facial injections and nonetheless discovered success within the leisure trade, she additionally hopes youthful Hollywood expertise sees that they don’t want to evolve to the stress of Botox and filler to suit a magnificence commonplace.
“Authenticity is extra evocative than any form of engineering you may take into account doing to your face or your physique,” she mentioned. “Now, this isn’t the message coming from tradition. As a lady who’s 44, watching myself in HD shouldn’t be simple, and it’s not comfy.”
Coon mentioned she nonetheless has insecurities, particularly when she sees herself onscreen, however that she seems for different skincare alternate options fairly than injections.
“I like science-based skincare,” she added. “However I’m not going to inject something into my face. It’s simply…I believe it’s scary and unusual.”