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In Season 2 of “The Sinner,” Ambrose investigates the brutal murder of two people committed by the son of a local cult leader named Vera, played by Carrie Coon. The character of Vera is tricky to pin down; is she friend or foe? Either way, Coon was exceptional as the dynamic matriarch, and the second season was arguably better than the first.
However, Carrie Coon wasn’t the first choice for the part (which seems ridiculous now), although if she knows the identity of the actor the casting directors first offered the role, she isn’t telling. Her real-life husband Tracy Letts was initially offered a role in Season 2 of “The Sinner” as Jack Novack, an old friend of Ambrose’s. According to Coon, who’d just had a baby, “I thought, ‘I’ll come to New York for the summer [during filming], and I’ll hang out with our baby and our friends.'” Eventually, casting directors approached her about also being in the series: “Somebody had somebody in mind, and that didn’t work out, and some other people had me in mind, and it did.”
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In the end, husband and wife would be a part of “The Sinner” Season 2, though according to Coon, it’s not uncommon, as the pair are often asked to star together. “It’s funny that it’s become this pitch tool for people when they come to us … everyone is now coming to us in tandem! I think the people who want to work with us try to seduce us by offering our partner a part which I guess is a benefit of having our careers dovetailing in this unusual way.”
