Carrie Coon exited Marvel over pay. She opens up to Variety about not returning for "Avengers: Endgame." "It’s more about is what’s driving our industry — like you should be lucky to be part of this engine that is making money in our industry. Here’s the metaphor: Let’s say you’re starting off in a business and get an entry-level position and are given an entry-level salary. You work in that business for 10 years, you’re no longer making an entry-level salary, and then an amazing company comes to you and says, 'We think you’re great, and we would like to hire you.' And you say, 'Fantastic. I this is an amazing company. I’d love to work for you.' But they’re only going to pay you your entry-level salary. You decide it’s a great company, I’ll give it a shot. And then you work for them and they extend your contract. You say, 'Wonderful. Can I expect to receive a salary commensurate with my experience?' And the company says, 'No, I’m sorry. We can only pay your entry-level salary.'" "The lesson there is that my time is more valuable elsewhere. And so I part ways with this company, everybody amicably, because my time, especially as a person with a family, is more valuable than that. So it’s purely a business decision. I think that those comments are probably less sexist than they are just an indicator of where the movie industry was heading. IP was driving the industry at that time. Maybe we’re having a shift. Maybe we’re having a swing back. I think people, operate under a tremendous misunderstanding about what we’re paid in those circumstances. I think if people knew, I think they’d be surprised, and wouldn’t be surprised at the decision I made." Read more here: variety.com/2025/tv/news/car…

Carrie Coon is going viral for how Laurie runs away from the shootout in #TheWhiteLotus finale. "There wasn’t direction. 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. I thought, what would a person do? A person would f*cking 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!'" Read more here: variety.com/2025/tv/news/car…

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