Carrie Coon stars in cult thriller The Liberation as trailer debuts
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The gist
Bleecker Street released the first trailer for The Liberation, starring Carrie Coon as Rita.
The film has put Coon in the Best Actress conversation.
Background
Carrie Coon is an actor known for HBO's The Gilded Age, where she plays Bertha Russell, and for earlier roles as Nora Durst on The Leftovers and Callie Spengler in the Ghostbusters films. In The Liberation, directed by Guy Nattiv, she plays Rita opposite Lily James as Ricki, the magnetic young leader of an all-female commune; her real-life husband Tracy Letts plays her character's husband in the film's 1982 sequences. The film played major fall festivals including Telluride and Toronto, and Coon received the Vancouver International Film Festival's inaugural Luminary Award for acting.
How it unfolded
- Jan 8, 2026 (year not stated)The Liberation is set for theatrical release by Bleecker Street, preceded by an NYC awards-qualifying run beginning the week of the trailer's release.
- Oct 29, 2026At the Chicago International Film Festival at the Music Box Theatre, Coon received an Artistic Achievement Award and said "It's hard to get money for films about complicated women," noting she has "lost four Emmys and two Tonys now."
- Nov 2, 2026Bleecker Street debuted the first trailer for Guy Nattiv's The Liberation, starring Coon as Rita.
- Nov 2, 2026Coon spoke to E! News at the 2026 CFDA Fashion Awards about her 13-year marriage to Tracy Letts; E! published the comments the next day, citing "a sense of humor" and telling the truth as key.
- Nov 2, 2026The Gilded Age Season 4 returned this week, with Coon starring as Bertha Russell.
Who’s saying what
- Analysts
- IndieWire said the film gives Coon "one of the meatiest characters of her career" and launched her "into the heart of the Best Actress race."
- Public
- Coon said of her marriage to Letts that "Number one is a sense of humor... Number two is you tell the truth," and that it "feels like longer" than 13 years.