Tracy Letts is seeing the record straight.
The actor, 59, revealed the reason his wife, Carrie Coon, did not return to the 2019 action/sci-fi movie “Avengers: Endgame.”
The actress, 44, originally starred in “Avengers: Infinity War” the year before; however, her deciding factor not to come back the second time around was money, Letts claimed.
“I believe [Marvel] went to her for the second one, and they asked her to be in the second one,” Letts admitted on “The Big Picture” 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.’”
“Infinity War” took home more than $2 billion at the global box office.
“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 continued. “And they said, ‘Well, you should feel yourself fortunate to be part of the Marvel Universe.’ So she declined.”
The couple tied the knot in 2013, five years before “The Gilded Age” star appeared in the role of villain Proxima Midnight in the MCU.
Since Coon’s character died before “Endgame,” she didn’t have any lines, but she did appear on screen.
“We would’ve made a bigger deal out of this,” Letts added, “but it would have involved us watching the movies, and we weren’t going to do that.”
In a 2020 episode of PeopleTV’s “Couch Surfing,” Coon said she turned down the chance to reprise Proxima Midnight due to a scheduling conflict.
But the “His Three Daughters” alum didn’t want the audience to count her out in the long run.
“No one ever dies. It’s very possible I could have my own Avengers movie next,” Coon teased. “But I wouldn’t hold your breath.”
In 2018, the “Gone Girl” vet detailed how she nabbed a spot in the MCU to begin with.
“It started as a voiceover audition,” Coon told Entertainment Weekly. “They were just looking for the voice of Proxima Midnight, and [they reached out] perhaps because they were interested in my voice or maybe because I’ve actually done motion-capture work previously. I used to do motion-capture work for video games, back in Madison, Wisconsin.”
She added, “I was an athlete in college, and so it was very physical work that I enjoyed tremendously, and I had such a ball working on it.”
Coon is currently playing Laurie Duffy on the third season of “The White Lotus.” Coon’s character is on a getaway alongside friends Jaclyn Lemon (Michelle Monaghan) and Kate Bohr (Leslie Bibb).
In March, the star revealed the storyline that was cut from the HBO drama after President Trump’s reelection.
“You see Laurie struggling to explain it to her friends, struggling to use they/them pronouns, struggling with the language, which was all interesting,” Coon told Harper’s Bazaar.
The exchange would have added context to the political conversation in the third episode where Bibb’s Kate hints she voted for Trump.
“It was only a short scene, but for me, it did make the question of whether Kate voted for Trump so much more provocative and personally offensive to Laurie, considering who her child is in the world,” Coon explained.
“The White Lotus.” HBO
She said the show’s creator, Mike White, felt “that the scene was so small and the topic so big that it wasn’t the right way to engage in that conversation.”
“Mike doesn’t shy away from challenging cultural conversations, and I really appreciate that about his work,” Coon said.
