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Emily Garbutt

Elizabeth Olsen and Carrie Coon explain how their new Netflix movie's "great sense of humor" makes grief feel more honest

Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen in His Three Daughters.

In new Netflix movie His Three Daughters, three estranged sisters, played by The Leftovers' Carrie Coon, Poker Face's Natasha Lyonne, and the MCU's Elizabeth Olsen, reunite in their terminally ill father's New York City apartment in the days before his death. They're grappling with hospice nurses, their strained bonds with each other, and how to mourn someone who isn't actually dead yet.

But, despite the somber nature of the movie's subject matter, "it's also got a great sense of humor," Coon explains to GamesRadar+. "Because when human beings are dealing with tragedy, we very rarely do it without humor at all. And so things that are humorless never feel very truthful to me. And this felt very truthful because of that. And it comes out of the circumstances. It's not like a joke a minute."

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