00:00Hi, I'm Carrie Coon, and this is my Town and Country Guide.
00:04Top six.
00:06Ow.
00:06Off to a great start.
00:08This is my guide to the Gilded Age.
00:12How I get into character each day is putting on the costume,
00:17how the costumes and everything reshape me before I go onto set,
00:20the way that I walk, the way I carry myself,
00:23the way we eat, the way we greet each other.
00:25Everything is very codified.
00:27And then also, Bertha's voice, she just, she drops way down.
00:31I'm tired of being cut on my own doorstep.
00:33Make them come.
00:34She knows that her voice is the key to her authority in a room.
00:39Because I play Bertha, I have multiple costume makers.
00:43Some of the characters have a single dressmaker,
00:46but I actually have dresses from every dressmaker we use,
00:49and so they really vary in terms of their weight and their construction.
00:54To get into the costumes, you need help.
00:55And Amber, my dresser, cinches my waist from a 28 to a 24.
01:00They have various hooks and eyes and buttons.
01:02We do not use zippers.
01:04That's a Reddit lie.
01:05It's all period appropriate.
01:06Amber and I are fond of timing ourselves,
01:09so we know how long I can take a break in my corset.
01:11The shoes are what really gets you.
01:13And the hats, the hats are so big
01:15that when I go to take a rest,
01:18we get about an hour lunch break.
01:20And so I have this, it's called the cranio cradle,
01:23and I can put it on my head this way so I can lay on the ground,
01:26but my hat and my feathers still go straight behind me
01:28and nothing gets crushed.
01:29They have a lot to offer.
01:35They're women I know that I could call for advice anytime,
01:38and it really feels like family.
01:39One of my favorite times was in the Gilded Age.
01:42I was eight months pregnant when we finished the first season,
01:44and so I was regaled with stories of all these women,
01:47Kelly O'Hara, Christine, Cynthia,
01:49they'd all been on stage pregnant.
01:51And for example, Kelly and Donna Murphy,
01:53they had performed singing and dancing and tapping
01:55and doing quick changes backstage with hoop skirts
01:57while they were really pregnant.
01:59And so I loved hearing those stories about theater.
02:02But the truth is, because it's a large ensemble,
02:04we almost never see each other.
02:05We almost never work on the same days.
02:07So all of us really relish the big group scenes.
02:10We call it an old skate when we have a big ball
02:12and everyone's there together
02:13because that's when it really feels like theater camp.
02:15And it does.
02:16It's nerdy, fun theater camp.
02:17It's exactly the way people expect it would be.
02:20This is my guide to style.
02:21I come from a small town in the Midwest.
02:26I did not grow up steeped in style.
02:29My mom used to wear her hospital scrubs to weddings.
02:32She would tell people she came directly from work,
02:34and that was a lie.
02:36So I didn't have a lot of help when it came to style.
02:38No offense, my mother's a wonderful human being.
02:41It's something that I am now
02:42just starting to educate myself about,
02:44and I so appreciate people like my stylist,
02:46Alicia Lombardini,
02:48who are guiding me toward really interesting new brands
02:51in particular,
02:51not just the old-fashioned houses,
02:53but also up-and-coming young designers.
02:55I like to promote young artists as much as I can.
03:00I would describe my personal style
03:02as disheveled working mom.
03:06To and from set,
03:07I wear my Rachel Comey jumpsuit
03:08and a baseball cap because I wear a wig,
03:11and I wear it to work literally every single day
03:14and for probably about the last five years.
03:16And on the weekends,
03:17I tend to wear the same pair of pants and shirt
03:20for 48 hours.
03:25I never leave the house
03:27without Lansano nipple cream for my lips.
03:31You guys, let's just talk straight here.
03:34It's the same tissue.
03:36Nipples and lips are basically the same tissue,
03:38so it stands to reason that the nipple cream
03:40is going to work very well on your lips.
03:41You don't have to put it on as often.
03:43I mean, you know, it's for babies.
03:45You can eat it,
03:45so it's perfectly safe to put on your face.
03:48And if I forget chapstick,
03:49I have to go home
03:50or I have to go to the drugstore
03:51because I can't live without chapstick of some variety,
03:54but most often nipple cream.
03:56I've converted a lot of people
03:57to nipple cream for their lips,
03:58and it comes in a big tube.
03:59Just don't drop it
04:00because people pick it up for you
04:02and then they're embarrassed.
04:03It's very uncomfortable for me.
04:04This is my guide to travel
04:07and an umbrella and long sleeves
04:11and UPF safe clothing and bathing suits.
04:14I spent the first six months almost of this year in Thailand
04:18for the White Lotus.
04:19It's really liberating to be away from your children.
04:22I think every woman should try it.
04:24I got to read books and listen to podcasts and exercise.
04:28And the reason I did those things
04:30is because I didn't go outside
04:31because the UV index in Thailand is so high
04:34that I would have burnt to ashes
04:36if I stepped outside
04:37between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.
04:40And then when I went out at 4,
04:41I was covered in sunscreen
04:43and I swam in long sleeves and long pants and gloves.
04:50We loved to linger at breakfast.
04:53We were obviously staying in resorts
04:54and so many times they have these all-you-can-eat breakfasts.
04:58Well, we're actors and we love free food.
05:00And so we would spend literally two and a half
05:02to three hours in the breakfast room
05:03and they had all these juices
05:05and, you know, someone's cutting up
05:07all this tropical fruit for you
05:08and we took a lot of things home with us.
05:10You know, like a protein bar for the gym later.
05:14When you're traveling with your family,
05:15it's a nightmare and it's chaos
05:17and there are no rules.
05:18But also bring snacks.
05:19You don't want to be on an airplane
05:20with no snacks with kids.
05:22That is a nightmare that I do not want to repeat.
05:24And I'm not going to tell you that story.
05:26It's too painful.
05:28I now travel with my own pillow.
05:30It's a contoured pillow.
05:31It's a techno gel.
05:32I don't leave home without that.
05:33I always bring my phone
05:35where I have an app for a white noise machine
05:37because you can't control other people's behavior
05:38in a hotel and they might be loud.
05:40I bring an eye mask
05:41in case there aren't blackout curtains.
05:42I like to bring an indoor shoe.
05:44I like a supportive sandal.
05:45I like a Hoka or an Ufos.
05:47Ufos?
05:48Ufos?
05:49I don't know how you say that,
05:49but they're great.
05:51Those are my guides.
05:52Thanks for watching
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