Tracy Letts is looking to avenge his wife Carrie Coon after her MCU salary dispute. Letts, who is an actor and playwright, said during “The Big Picture” podcast (via People) that “The White Lotus” star Coon was asked to reprise her voiceover and motion capture role of Proxima Midnight for “Avengers: Endgame.” However, Marvel was not going to increase Coon’s salary even after the success of 2018’s “Avengers: Infinity War.”
“I believe [Marvel] went to her for the second one, and they asked her to be in the second one,” Letts said. “And she said, ‘Well, the first one is the most successful movie ever made. Are you going to pay me any more money?’ And they said, ‘No. We’re not going to pay you any more money.’”
Letts continued, “She said, ‘Wow, you’re not going to pay me any more money, then I don’t think I’m going to do it.’ And they said, ‘Well, you should feel yourself fortunate to be part of the Marvel Universe.’ So she declined…We would’ve made a bigger deal out of this, but it would have involved us watching the movies and we weren’t going to do that.”
Letts added that he and Coon have still never seen “Infinity War” or “Endgame” due to the dispute. IndieWire reached out to representatives for Marvel and Coon for comment.
Coon previously told Entertainment Weekly in 2018 that her role for “Infinity War” changed upon filming. Coon played Thanos’ crony Proxima Midnight, which included facial capture as opposed to only voiceover, which is what she auditioned for. “It morphed from a voiceover job into a mo-cap job, and then suddenly I realized I was in the highest-grossing movie of the year,” Coon said.
Coon currently stars in one of the buzziest series of the year, “The White Lotus.” And Coon isn’t the only actress who has been public about her experience with Marvel: Jenna Ortega recently told ET that all of her lines were cut from 2013 MCU film “Iron Man 3,” and that she was uncredited in her role.
“I did it once,” Ortega said when asked if she would want to be in a Marvel film. “It was one of my first jobs I ever did. They took all my lines out. I’m in ‘Iron Man 3.’ I take up the frame. I have one leg. And I’m the vice president’s daughter.”
She added of the experience, “They even took my name away. I count that, and then I move on.”
