Director “The Golded Age” about Georges fate that goes to the final

[This story contains major spoilers from season three, episode seven of The Gilded Age, “Ex-Communicated.”]

The seventh episode of The Gilded ageThe third season entitled “Ex-Communicated” literally ended with a bang. Someone shot George Russell. Or with him. The spectators are not sure when we saw a ball of George on the way and then the screen became black.

The gilded age The executing producer and director Salli Richardson-Whitfield, who led this episode and the final, does not give up The Hollywood reporter. But she talks about other crucial developments and there are some.

So shake the view of losing George (spectacularly by Morgan Spector), a lot happened in this episode. Ward McAllister (Nathan Lane) published a fictional book about New York society, the thinly veiled details about Ms. Astor's life (Donna Murphy), Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon) and more contained and thought that he could simply continue. In the Russell household there is a spy that the newspapers and the servants of Russells-Butler Mr. Church (Jack Gilpin), the housekeeper Ms. Bruce (Celia Keenan-Bolger) and chef Koch Borden (Douglas Sills)-with the search for good radio (Celia Keenan-Bolger) and chef borden and chef borden Forward chef on the chef (Douglas Sills). Oscar (Blake Ritson) does not take good care of his friend John Adams (Claybourne Elder) and almost comes to his mother Agnes (Christine Baranski).

And as always, the affairs of the heart continue to rule. While Gladys (Taissa Farmiga) and Hector (Ben Lamb) get along much better, Larry (Harry Richardson) does not make much progress with Marian (Louisa Jacobson) to get back on the track. Ms. Kirkland (Phylicia Rashad) also meets with Ms. Ernestine Brown, portrayed by the legendary Leslie Uggams, and finds out Peggy's darkest secret that she is certain, her son Dr. Kirkland (Jordan Donica) to force her advertising.

With so many couples to the end of the episode and only Hector and Gladys who appear happy, Bertha would have been right all the time? Richardson-Whitfield lets us know what she thinks.

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What happens to George? There was no indication that someone would try to shoot him. How did we get here?

At GildedWe really love these explosive openers and endings in episodes. Oscar's friend just got [killed]. Nobody saw it coming, and nobody sees what was happening with George in the end of episode seven.

Literally! But from the beginning, this episode was explosive with McAllister's Tell-All-Buch about the life of women and society, which he contributed to cultivating. Nevertheless, he is shocked when he is no longer greeted. Why does he think he should still have a place at the table? Or on the ball?

In his thoughts he thought he was so anchored with these people that he would be fine. [Because] He doesn't really give any names, he thought that would be enough cover for him. And frankly, I say the same thing: How could he believe that Ms. Astor would stand for it? This specific scene between the two, when they separate, is very sad and tragic because you can say that it is really with a broken heart. She has no really, really good friends and I have the feeling that McAllister was actually a good friend and this is a big betrayal. I have always seen this scene as a separation between two lovers. Although they are not lovers, it was tragic for both.

And how cruel he spoke of her, threw her husband's philandering in the face and then the next moment “Oh, forgive me”.

It is like the best friend you really find out, really jealous and despised them over the years. It felt a bit Atlanta Housewives me. You think this is your homie that we ride or die and at the same time really as you see me and pity with me and judges. I think so people love this show. It can be such an increased drama, but then they feel softer and chic. That is the magic of the show. You can have both.

Another really great action was the spy in the house. It made the servants more active. Talk about leading this and bringing a little puzzle.

It's not the deepest action, but I had so much fun because I said that if we wanted to do that, we are fully on Wes Anderson Camp. It will be so much fun and almost silly, but it works. Our actors accepted the spy[ing] of them like the idea of [Chef Borden] Look behind the bread. We laughed all the time when we shot. I hope people understand what I'm doing here because it appears silly. I think people will enjoy the little cat and mouse [of it all]. It is another of these things that makes the show so good; We can do this great drama and then get a super funny Camp Musical Theater.

Let's talk about Oscar. This episode goes into his heartache about his “friend” John. How did you capture these delicate moments and Oscars raw feelings, especially during the heartbreaking living room scene with his mother Agnes, Cousin Marian and Aunt Ada when he reveals that John left him a house?

Blake, who plays Oscar, and I played with different levels when we shoot. He is a really talented actor. So we are: “Let's play this time, let us do it with a little more trouble about Agnes, a little more despair and this time [can] We have a little more shame? “We could really make the performance and decide where we wanted to go. No, they cannot return from here.” Although Marian is an innocent, she suspected some, and she knows that he cannot get back with Agnes. If he had really said Agnes, she would probably never have spoken to him again.

And then Ada feels something and also comes to Oscars.

I don't know how much ADA knows, but she knows that this is strange, and we probably shouldn't talk about it. During this time it was simply better not to speak of it.

We have to withdraw and talk about this moment when Oscar and John's sister Mrs. Bell (Kate Baldwin) meet and give him the house by the lake. When she says Oscar that John has left money for the house for five years, he replies: “He thought of everything” and she says: “He thought of you.”

Isn't it a nice, beautiful scene! What I love is that they have found these two women Marian and the sister who know the nature of the relationship and can give him some grace and love for it, and he doesn't feel so much on an island. I was a wonderful moment for our show and acceptance of people and their sexuality during this time. I always say that Gilded Somehow we reflect the world in which we now live. I don't know how Julian does it every year. Obviously, they wrote these scripts some time ago when the show comes out, but it really reflects everything that is still going on in our culture.

In this episode we also see Gladys and Hector, who come even closer to the table after their epic Takedown by Lady Sarah in the previous episode. Talk about the films of these scenes of Hector and Gladys, who slowly fall in love with each other.

Hey, Bertha was right. Mom was right. … she didn't set Gladys with a monster. She set her with the life that she knows in the future, [Gladys is] I will thank her for it. I decided that I would be Bertha. I will make sure that my daughter's life is good. No, no, I'm just joking. But I think it's just about that Bertha was actually right. There are many times that Bertha makes things wrong, but she was right. They are suitable for each other and he is a friendly man. He only needs a good woman to show him who he is. I think it's great that it is a bit more real, especially after you saw them in the altar, in tears and then in the scene in the cabin, and how did we put them? “I think it's one of our best storylines this season.

You have to lead Leslie Uggams with Phylicia Rashad!

I made sure I had a picture with the two because I grew up with these women. They are two living legends. I have the feeling that I started reaching things in my career as a director, but sitting there and leading these two women, and they trust me? It will definitely be a memory that I take with me for the rest of my life. They are still so present and still so good and again a pleasure to work with it. There is nothing better than when they meet their idols and they turn out to be good people.

And it's a crucial moment that Has the potential, everything for Peggy and her dashing Dr. To change Kirkland.

Everything. Yes [Mrs. Kirkland] Is a troublemaker and I love her. I love the fact that she is a kind of mix of Bertha and Agnes in our black elite world.

Unfortunately we don't see how Larry and Marian come back together. And in a way, Marian, separating from Larry, seems trivial. Could Larry really have told her? During this time, too, men don't talk much about their coming and walking.

Yes, but I think Marian always wanted a little more. She wants more of a modern marriage. She wants to become a partner. I think that's why she and Peggy have become close friends. Both also want to grow as women, not just as a woman. Both expect more from the people they are in love with. You expect to be in love and not to be forced into a marriage like Gladys. Marian and Larry, when they get back together, have to find a way to be more a modern attitude towards one what it means to be in love and be married. Hopefully Larry can find out what Marian really needs and what he really wants in a marriage. I think it's great to see both sides, as we see. And maybe Bertha was right again. Maybe we need more arranged marriages. Maybe our parents know more. But I think it's nice to see both sides of the medal. You see these two modern women and then you see someone like Gladys.

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The final of the third season of gilded age will be on HBO Max Stream on Sunday, August 10th.