Just because the actress Jeanne Tripplehorn played a modern Mormon woman in Great love That doesn’t mean she’s a fan of the hit reality TV series The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.
“I’ve hung up my Mormon boots,” Tripplehorn, 62, said exclusively. Us every week by participating The truth premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music last month, adding that she 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’ve never seen it. I haven’t even seen it. [The] Book of Mormon,” she continued, referring to South Park creators Trey Parker And Mate stoneIt’s a hit Broadway musical. “And I like the South Park guys, but I just couldn’t do it. I was finished.
Tripplehorn — who made his film debut in 1992 as a police psychologist in the hit film Basic instinct — starred in the hit HBO series Great lovebroadcast from 2006 to 2011, opposite the late Bill Paxton. (Paxton died in February 2011 of a stroke 11 days after heart surgery. He was 61.)
The series follows fundamentalist Bill Henrickson (Paxton), a polygamist living in Utah, as he navigates the complexities of family life while married to multiple wives, played by Tripplehorn, Chloë Sévigny And Ginnifer Goodwin.
The show’s depiction of the fundamentalist Mormon group United Effort Brotherhood is said to be based on the fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which officially discontinued and distanced itself from the practice of polygamy in 1890.
Jeanne Tripplehorn
Jamie McCarthy/Getty ImagesCreators Mark V. Olsen And Will Schefferwho also served as executive producer, spent more than two years researching the premise of the series, saying his intention was to present viewers with a “fair, non-judgmental portrait of polygamy in America.”
“It’s the combustion, the negotiation of that mix of feelings that I think keeps the audience coming back for more,” Olsen said.
Fast forward to 2025, and the cast of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives dominated reality TV, nearly breaking the internet when the infamous #MomTok scandal broke. In season 2, star (and new Bachelorette) Taylor Frankie Paul shocked fans by revealing new details about the group’s swingers parties, while keeping fans guessing with her recurring romantic drama with her ex Dakota Mortensen.
Miranda McWhorter came back after her divorce and another high-profile scandal, finally clearing the air with Taylor.
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“It was good that she came because it opened the doors for me to be able to tell the truth about the people involved,” Taylor said. We. “I’ve never said before what we do at these parties, and it’s obviously not something I’m proud of, but it’s liberating at the same time.”
She continued: “We’ve had sex in the shower with our husbands all together. We’ve 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 was obsessed with it for so long,” Taylor said. Weadding that revisiting these particularly difficult events was “triggering” but that she is learning to manage them better with the help of therapy.
