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The White Lotus's Carrie Coon left the MCU when Marvel refused her a pay bump following Avengers: Infinity War
Carrie Coon's Proxima Midnight didn't appear in Avengers: Endgame because Marvel refused a payraise, instead saying she should feel "fortunate" to be in the MCU, says the actor's husband

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For years, Marvel fans have wondered: whatever happened to Thanos’s henchperson Proxima Midnight between Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame? The White Lotus’s Carrie Coon played the character in the former, but didn’t return for the latter, leading people to wonder: what happened? Now, Coon’s husband appears to have answered the question.
Speaking on a recent episode of The Big Picture podcast, playwright and actor Tracy Letts revealed, “I believe [Marvel] went to her for the second one, and they asked her to be in the second one,” Letts said on the podcast. “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.’”
Instead, the studio suggested, the reward for being in the most successful movie ever was… getting to be in the most successful movie ever.
“She said, ‘Wow, you’re not going to pay me any more money, then I don’t think I’m going to do it,’” Letts went on. “And they said, ‘Well, you should feel yourself fortunate to be part of the Marvel Universe.’ So she declined.”
It’s clearly not a decision that has harmed Coon’s career in any way, judging by the response to her White Lotus role — or her appearances in the Ghostbusters franchise, or critically acclaimed appearances in projects like His Three Daughters, for that matter. But while Coon’s success may be its own reward, that didn’t stop Letts offer a brutal slam about the whole experience.
“We would’ve made a bigger deal out of this,” he said about Marvel’s cheapness, “but it would have involved us watching the movies and we weren’t going to do that.”
Coon can next be seen in the finale of The White Lotus season 3, dropping on HBO and Max April 6.
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