Coon has been married to her husband since 2013. “It’s nice to be in a relationship where we can always talk about, ‘Well who are you attracted to on set?’” she explained. “He notices every single woman on the street, and he always tells me who he has a crush on. It’s fun. It’s interesting to know what your partner is into.”.
Maron then interjected to ask: “But it doesn’t ever go over the line?”. In response, Coon replied: “We don’t really like lines. Lines are really boring... Life is short. Finite!. “... [Letts] would never begrudge anyone the human experience,” she said. “He’s embraced being a person of appetites and acknowledging we have these proclivities.”.
She went on to share her issues with the traditional expectations of monogamous marriage. “Monogamy is sort of something we’ve imposed on ourselves, we were supposed to have babies and die at like 30,” she said. “And that’s not how life is anymore. So you have to kind of be open-minded about what engages you in the world, what sparks your imagination, and what your passion is.
“I think if you’re willing to stay open to that, you’re living more of a full life. And I don’t think either one of us would want to keep the other from living,” she added of her relationship. Coon’s comments quickly gained traction on X, with one person resharing a clip of the segment on marriage with the caption: “Finding out Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts have an open marriage has been a really great way to start my week.”.
Coon and Letts met in 2010 while starring in the Broadway production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? They got married three years later before welcoming their first child, Haskell, in 2018. They also welcomed a daughter in 2021, but have yet to share her name publicly.
