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Carrie Coon Says Forgoing Botox Shapes Her Roles and Champions Authenticity

She aims to encourage younger talent to resist pressure for cosmetic procedures.

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Overview

  • At 44, Coon told Glamour that avoiding Botox has given her a lower voice and natural facial lines that tend to typecast her as older characters.
  • She said this gravitas helped her land complex roles like Bertha Russell in The Gilded Age and Laurie in The White Lotus season three.
  • She said authenticity is more evocative than any engineered alteration to her face or body and challenged prevailing beauty standards.
  • Coon relies on science-based skincare and has no plans to use injectables, describing facial injections as “scary and strange.”
  • To protect her skin on The White Lotus in Thailand, she hid indoors during peak sun and wore full-coverage swimwear before returning to The Gilded Age two days after wrap.