Proxima doesn't speak in Endgame because Marvel reportedly didn't want to pay Carrie Coon more

The actor would have made a bigger deal about it, but didn't want to watch the movie.

By Drew Gillis  |  April 2, 2025 | 4:49pm
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Proxima doesn't speak in Endgame because Marvel reportedly didn't want to pay Carrie Coon more
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Everyone remembers Proxima Midnight, the adoptive daughter of Thanos who appears in Avengers: Infinity War. Current White Lotus guest Carrie Coon provided the voice and facial capture for the character in that movie, and although Proxima was killed by Elisabeth Olsen’s Wanda Maximoff in Infinity War, Coon had the opportunity to return for Endgame. However, she made a different fatal error: she asked to be compensated appropriately for her work. 

“I believe [Marvel] went to her for the second one, and they asked her to be in the second one,” Coon’s husband Tracy Letts said on The Ringer‘s The Big Picture podcast (via People). “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.'” 

This was the wrong answer. 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.” Whether Coon felt fortunate or not, neither she nor Letts ever actually watched the movies with or without her appearance. “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 continued. Of course, this wouldn’t stop Marvel from including the character in Endgame; Proxima is there, just silently.

 
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