Carrie Coon Says That No One Recognizes Her When She’s Brunette: ‘People See Me in a Different Way’

“There is something about the platinum that makes people see me in a different way,” she said of her blonde hair.

Coon continued, “You know what’s interesting? People don’t see me when my hair is dark. I would get recognized when I was platinum, probably because the bob in The White Lotus was platinum, but when my hair goes back to my normal color, that all goes away.”

The actress also mused that people don’t recognize her “because I’m a mom in Westchester in sweatpants who doesn’t brush her teeth.”

“But I’m also out there representing what it means to be 44,” she adds. “It’s interesting that those questions often come up in interviews with women. Things like, ‘Why didn’t you get your nose fixed?’ Things that your mother would ask you.”

Coon, 44, sports brunette hair for her role as Bertha Russell on The Gilded Age, and is currently rocking the hue as she stars in Bug on Broadway.

The play is a psychological thriller written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Tracy Letts, who has been married to Coon since 2013, and directed by Tony winner David Cromer.

Namir Smallwood stars opposite Coon as Peter, a paranoid former soldier and mysterious drifter who meets her character Agnes, a lonely waitress. The pair become isolated in a rundown Oklahoma motel room as discussions of conspiracy theories ensue.

A synopsis of the play describes their relationship as an “unexpected and intense romance” that becomes a “sexy psychological thriller.”

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Letts, who previously appeared alongside his wife in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, has praised the current production for its intensity and immediacy.

“I love this production of Bug,” he said in a statement released back in August.. “It’s scary and funny and intimate, and it features five great stage actors working at the peak of their powers, under the direction of my long-time collaborator David Cromer. But what I love most about it is just how involving it is. When an audience is pulled into a story — when they lose themselves in it — it’s a kind of sorcery. And it only happens in live theatre.”