Carrie Coon Reacts To Her Accidental Viral Moment In The White Lotus Finale

Warning: This article contains spoilers for the season three finale of The White Lotus.

Carrie Coon has spoken out after inadvertently creating a viral moment in the recent White Lotus finale.

The third season of the award-winning US dramedy culminated in a mass shooting at the Thai resort, which Carrie’s character Laurie and her friends (played by Michelle Monaghan and Leslie Bibb) found themselves in the middle of.

When the first gunshots were fired, Laurie was seen bolting from the scene, which fans of the show began sharing clips of almost immediately:

Asked about the viral moment during an interview with Variety, Carrie confirmed that the run wasn’t something she was directed to do.

Instead, she explained: “Look, I’m an American and I’m a New Yorker, and if you think I don’t know where the exits are in any building I’m in, then you’re not paying attention to the news.”

Carrie continued: “I thought, ‘what would a person do?’. A person would fucking run, would book it, and I’m fast. I’m not as fast as I used to be!

“Some polite Thai workers were kind of scampering through in the background. I was like, ‘No, no, you need to have some Americans sprinting and hitting the deck, and jumping in the lagoon. The Americans are not playing. They know what this means!’.”

What you might not realise about Carrie is that the two-time Emmy nominee was a runner back in college, clocking a time of 59.36 seconds in the 400m at the Ohio Athletic Conference Championships back in 2000.

But she isn’t the only member of the White Lotus cast whose running captured people’s attention in the finale.

One scene also saw Aimee Lou Wood running towards Walton Goggins in character as Chelsea.

The Bafta winner recalled to Decider: “What is really funny is that Frank, one of the camera guys, he was like, ‘Aimee, that choice, that was a genius choice you made to have Chelsea run like that. It’s so funny! It’s such a funny choice that you made. She’s got such a silly run. Like, what made you think of that?’. And I was like, ‘That is my run. That is just Aimee’s run’.

“[I thought I was doing a] really beautiful, kind of Pamela Anderson run across the beach and everyone was like, ‘What a hilarious choice you just made’.”

She also told The Times that during a beach party one night, Walton told Aimee that she had to “show the girls Chelsea’s run”.

Aimee insisted: “It’s just the way I run! It’s like when you’re a kid, you don’t know you’re weird until someone points it out, do you?”