Carrie Coon on What Being Worthy of Love Really Means

Modern Love

The New York Times

Nytimes, Redemption, Society & Culture, New York Times, Love, Essay, Storytelling, Loss, Nyt

4.4 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In the movie “His Three Daughters,” Carrie Coon’s character, Katie, has rigid ideas about who her sisters are and what they’re capable of. When the women reunite to care for their dying father, those ideas become a barrier to true connection and care for each other. In this episode, Coon reads the Modern Love essay “A Family Label, Ungarbled” by Harriet Brown. Growing up, the author was never sure she could feel real love. It took breaking out of her mother’s ideas of her, and the birth of her daughter, to learn what love meant. Coon relates the essay to her own experience, describing her early dating life as tumultuous and recalling relationships she continued out of pity rather than love. Until one day, Coon got a letter from her grandmother that changed everything. Here’s how to submit a Modern Love essay to The New York Times Here’s how to submit a Tiny Love Story

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0:00.0	Love now and...
0:03.5	Did you fall in love last?
0:04.3	I love her.
0:05.1	The love was stronger than anything.
0:07.5	For the love.
0:08.6	And I love you more than anything.
0:11.7	Martin love.
0:12.1	From the New York Times, I'm Anna Martin.
0:17.0	This is Modern Love.
0:18.6	Every week, we bring you stories about love, lust, loss,
0:22.7	all the messiness of human relationships.
0:25.1	This week, I'm talking to actor Carrie Coon.
0:30.7	Carrie Coon has kind of been everywhere lately.
0:33.4	She's in the new season of the White Lotus,
0:35.1	which I'm very excited about.
0:36.4	She's on the Gilded Age.
0:37.7	But I've been wanting to talk to her about a movie she's in called His Three Daughters.
0:42.5	It's about three sisters who've all reunited to take care of their dad, who's on his deathbed.
0:48.0	And Carrie Coon's character is really worth talking about.
0:51.2	Her name is Katie, and she sees herself as kind of a martyr, taking care of
0:55.3	everything and everyone. She talks in these fiery, frustrated monologues. The trick is, I guess the
1:01.4	thing I'm saying, is that I hope we can make this easy on him, just not make a thing out of anything.
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