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“Where Did You Laugh?”

YOU WANT MY WIFE TO NOT feel bad about interrupting,” says actor and playwright Tracy Letts. I’ve just told Letts, 54, and his wife, actress Carrie Coon, 38, that they should feel free to chime in on any question I ask, no matter whom I address it to. “So this is an interview about marriage?” adds Coon.

The couple met in 2010 when they were cast together in a revival of at Steppenwolf, where Letts is a longtime ensemble member (Coon joined last winter). By the time that production transferred to Broadway in 2012, they were an item; they were

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