Just because she’s an actress Jeanne Tripplehorn she played a modern Mormon woman Great Love doesn’t mean she’s a fan of the hit reality show The Secret Lives of Mormon Women.
“I’ve hung up my Mormon boots,” Tripplehorn, 62, said exclusively Us Weekly while attending The Low premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music last month, adding that he has “not” watched the hit Hulu series.
“I was done. I was done. I have a girlfriend who is obsessed with this show and I never watched it. I didn’t even watch (The) Book of Mormon,” he continued to reference. South Park creators Trey Parker i Matt Stone’the hit Broadway musical. “And I love it South Park guys but i couldn’t do it. I’m done.”
Tripplehorn, who made her film debut in 1992 as a police psychologist in the hit basic instinct — played the title role in the hit HBO series Great Lovewhich aired from 2006 to 2011, contrary to the end Bill Paxton. (Paxton died in February 2011 of a stroke he suffered 11 days after heart surgery. He was 61.)
The series followed fundamentalist Bill Henrickson (Paxton), a polygamist living in Utah, as he navigates the complexities of family life when married to multiple women, played by Tripplehorn. Chloe Sevigny i Ginnifer Goodwin.
The show’s depiction of the fundamentalist Mormon group, the Brotherhood of United Effort, is based on the fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which officially suspended and distanced itself from the practice of polygamy in 1890.
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Jamie McCarthy/Getty Imagescreators Mark V. Olsen i Will Schefferwho also served as executive producers, spent more than two years researching the premise of the series, stating that their intention was to present viewers with a “fair and non-judgmental portrayal of polygamy in America.”
“It’s the combustion, negotiating that mix of feelings that I think keeps audiences coming back for more,” Olsen said.
Fast forward to 2025 and the cast of The Secret Lives of Mormon Women has dominated reality television, nearly breaking the Internet when she infamously #MomTok scandal scandal broken In season 2, star (and newly single) Taylor Frankie Paul surprised fans by revealing new details about the group’s swing parties while keeping fans guessing with their on-again, off-again romantic drama with ex now. Dakota Mortensen.
Miranda McWhorter came back after his divorce and another high-profile scandal, finally clearing the air with Taylor.
Several of Hollywood’s biggest stars have opened up about their ups and downs growing up in the Mormon church. Katherine Heigl’s family became religious after her brother, Jason, died in 1986 from injuries sustained in a car accident. “Both of my parents felt a great desire for answers and found an answer in (…)
“It was nice that he came in because it opened doors for me to be able to tell the real truth about who was involved,” Taylor said. we. “I haven’t said before what we were doing at these parties, and it’s obviously not something I’m proud of, but at the same time it’s liberating.”
She continued: “We had sex in the shower with our husbands all together. We also had sex in the same bed at the same time.”
During Season 2, Taylor also confronted Jenna, the woman who claimed to have slept with Dakota.
“I had no regrets. I had set my sights on it for so long,” Taylor said weand added that revisiting these particularly difficult events was “triggering,” but that she is learning to better manage them with the help of therapy.