Carrie Coon is only in London on a flying visit. A very short break from filming season three of The Gilded Age , Julian ‘ Downton Abbey ’ Fellowes’s hit HBO series set in New York’s 1880s boom years, for which Coon received another Emmy Award nomination and which she was convinced was about to be cancelled. “I told everyone it was over,” she says.
Coon welcomes us warmly, jumping up to offer us a glass of water – because you’re never too jetlagged to be polite. She knows Big Issue’s work. “We have something similar in Chicago, though not as substantial as this.
And you’ve got lovely Chris Eccleston on the cover?” she says, glancing at a recent magazine featuring her on-screen brother from cult hit HBO series The Leftovers . “I love him so much. He’ll always be my brother.
” Get the latest news and insight into how the Big Issue magazine is made by signing up for the Inside Big Issue newsletter His Three Daughters , Coon’s new film, is a beautiful, singular depiction of grief and the preparation for grief in all its complexity and intensity. Co-stars Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen join Coon as a dying man’s three semi-estranged daughters who reunite, awkwardly, in a small apartment for his final days in New York. It is written, directed and was meticulously planned by Azazel Jacobs.
“He first sent me a letter that said, I have this budget, we have this amount of time, we’re going to shoot it in order, and this is my vision,” says Coo.