What Carrie Coon says about shooting ‘The White Lotus’ in Thailand
“The White Lotus” star Carrie Coon tells USA TODAY about what it was like to film in Thailand.
Looks like that trip to Thailand paid off for Carrie Coon.
Coon, who got her footing as an actor on stages in Madison and Milwaukee, collected her third Primetime Emmy nomination, this time for supporting actress in a drama series for the latest season of “The White Lotus.”
The nominees for the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards were announced July 15.
Coon was one of four nominees for supporting actress in a drama from “The White Lotus,” with Parker Posey, Natasha Rothwell and Aimee Lou Wood. The HBO show received 23 nominations in all, including best drama series and three for supporting actor in a drama (Walton Goggins, Jason Isaacs and Sam Rockwell).
Coon, a University of Wisconsin-Madison grad who performed with the Madison Repertory Theatre, American Players Theatre and Renaissance Theaterworks, was nominated in 2017 for lead actress in a limited series or movie for “Fargo,” and in 2024 for lead actress in a drama series for “The Gilded Age.”
Coon was one of several people with Wisconsin ties to add to their Emmy nomination stockpile July 15.
Noah Mitz, a Milwaukee native who went to Nicolet High School, collected his 32nd and 33rd Primetime Emmy nominations, as part of the teams for lighting design/lighting direction for a series for “Dancing With the Stars” and for lighting design/lighting direction for a special for “The 67th Annual Grammy Awards.”
Mitz has won twice: in January 2024 for lighting design/lighting direction for a variety series, for “Dancing With the Stars,” and in 2022, for lighting design/lighting direction for a variety special, for “Adele: One Night Only.”
Chris Smith, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee film grad who put a spotlight on Milwaukee with the award-winning documentary “American Movie,” received two more Primetime Emmy nominations: as part of the team nominated for cinematography for a nonfiction program for “100 Foot Wave,” and as an executive producer nominated for documentary or nonfiction series, also for “100 Foot Wave.”
The nominations bring Smith’s overall Primetime Emmy total to nine. He won in 2024 for cinematography for a nonfiction program for “100 Foot Wave.”
Apple TV+’s “Severance” led the overall Primetime Emmy field with 27 nominations, followed by HBO’s “The Penguin” with 24, and “The White Lotus” and Apple TV+’s “The Studio” with 23.
Series nominated for best drama included: “Andor,” “The Diplomat,” “The Last of Us,” “Paradise,” “The Pitt,” “Severance,” “Slow Horses” and “The White Lotus.”
Shows nominated for best comedy were: “Abbott Elementary,” “The Bear,” “Hacks,” “Nobody Wants This,” “Only Murders in the Building,” “Shrinking,” “The Studio” and “What We Do in the Shadows.”
For a full list, go to emmys.com/nominations.
The Primetime Emmy Awards will be doled out at a ceremony in Los Angeles on Sept. 14. The show will air on CBS and stream on Paramount+. The Creative Arts Emmy Awards, encompassing most of the behind-the-scenes and specialty categories, take place Sept. 6-7.
