Republican Meghan McCain ripped into Carrie Coon’s “White Lotus” character as their ongoing on-line spat over their political variations ramps up.
Season 3 of the hit Max collection introduced politics to the forefront within the third episode, with Leslie Bibb’s character, Kate, confessing to her buddies whereas on a ladies’ journey to Thailand that she voted for President Trump.
Coon — who performs Democrat Laurie, one of many girls within the good friend group — advised the Hollywood Reporter Wednesday that “folks like Meghan McCain and her group are actually gratified to see a conservative particular person on tv.”
The actress, 44, added, “I’ve conservative folks in my life who reached out to me to say that was an superior dialog, as a result of I don’t suppose it vilifies Kate.”
McCain, 40, responded to Coon’s remarks by way of X Thursday, writing, “Sure Carrie, I’m ‘gratified’ that the conservative character represented on White Lotus is the accountable, household oriented one not making a idiot of herself.”
The previous “View” co-host then added in a jab to the Max star’s character, “Not like the progressive liberal you’re representing who’s sleeping with lodge workers and exhibiting her tits to everybody.”
McCain was referencing one other scene within the collection, during which Laurie will get intoxicated whereas partying with a lodge staffer and two of his buddies, after which flashes everybody once they’re in a personal pool on the resort.
Web page Six has reached out to Coon’s rep for a response however didn’t instantly hear again. She additionally has not addressed McCain’s X submit by way of social media.
The 2 girls have been feuding for the previous few weeks, beginning with Coon posting by way of X in March, “Who’s gonna to inform her?” after McCain gushed over Trump’s State of the Union handle.
The daughter of late Republican senator John McCain responded on the time with a meme of Kate, Bibb’s character, squinting after she was requested within the “White Lotus” scene whether or not she voted for Trump, 78.
Coon not too long ago revealed a scrapped sub-plot for her character was going to be a dialog together with her buddies about her baby discovering their gender id.
“It was solely a brief scene, however for me, it did make the query [in Episode 3] of whether or not Kate voted for Trump a lot extra provocative and personally offensive to Laurie, contemplating who her baby is on this planet,” she advised Harper’s Bazaar final month.
“However the season was written earlier than the election. And contemplating the best way the Trump administration has weaponized the cultural conflict towards transgender folks much more since then, when the time got here to chop the episode down, Eileen Reslen Mike [White] felt that the scene was so small and the subject so massive that it wasn’t the best solution to interact in that dialog.”
