Spoiler Alert: Details for season 3, episode 7 of “The Gilded Age”, “Ex-Communicated”, which was broadcast on HBO on August 3.
On the best days, Le Pain Quotidiens Bryant Park Branch is far from the 61st Street Mansion, in which the Russell family leads the New York company in baronial splendor over HBOS “The Golded Age”. And this is not one of his best days – the air conditioning is on the Fritz, and the restaurant has installed several massive fans who rumble like locomotives when they fight with the humidity.
Morgan Spector exchanged the 19th century power suits, which he wears for a T-shirt and jeans with the gilded age. We should meet to destroy the cliffhanger – his character George Russell, a predatory industrialist with a weakness for his family, was shot at the end of the seventh episode of the third season of the show in the Morgan Library, one of the best known, gilded old -age monuments in Manhattan. But the museum is closed on Mondays.
“This is a little less great,” notes Spector. “I don't think someone will bring us high tea.”
After a slow start with a split first season, “The Gilded Age” with critics and audiences has steadily gained dynamics. Last year, the second season of the show achieved an Emmy nomination for the outstanding drama series, and the third season hit new ratings. This week, HBO announced that it will be “the gilded age”. Spector has experienced the increase in interest.
“I have more people who come to me on the street – and then there are all online discussions,” he says. “It feels like the show was obtained in the second season and continues to build.”
Much of this chatter concerns the collapse of the Russellehe. George and his wife Bertha (Carrie Coon) worked together in the first two seasons. He collected the assets; She spent securing her social position. But Berha's decision to marry her daughter of Gladys (Taissa Farmiga) to the Duke of Buckingham (Ben Lamb) due to Georges objections. In the past, George Bertha filled in all of his corporate stamps. But this season he has mostly in the dark through his ruthless offer to build a transnational railway line.
“We built carefully during the course of this season, quite a crisis in the middle of life,” says Spector. “There was a feeling of He came to the top of this mountain. He can't really go higher. Do you go crazy Do you find other mountains for climbing that are even more tricky? “
At the moment when George keeps life, Spector is discussing the fate of his character and the business contrivalities and personal dramas that his business empire left on the verge of disaster.
How concerned should we be for George?
You should be very concerned. In the 19th century, gunshot wounds were extremely dangerous. Many people did not survive them. I don't have a contract for the next season, so who knows?
How did you find out about Georges Shooting?
These last scripts were a bit delayed, so it took some time to get them. But when I read the end for this episode, I was only enthusiastic because it is such a left -wing curve for our show. It is completely historically precise. This kind of things happened during this time, but it doesn't feel like the gilded age.
When I read the script, it didn't take long for Luigi Mangione to shot the CEO of United Healthcare. I was like [“The Gilded Age” creator] Julian Fellowes is clairvoyant. It doubled my feeling that there is a way of how this show, how subtle, how quiet, is really in dialogue with our current moment, simply because there are structural similarities between the two epochs. Both periods have a massive prosperity and massive inequality. Both are characterized by industrial titans that swing the state around through its cock. The consequences of this can be violence.
We meet days after Jeff Bezos' wasteful wedding with Lauren Sanchez in Venice. This season it doesn't feel unlike the wedding of Gladys.
This is one of the delightful things to be in this show. They play the eccentricities of this class of people in the 19th century and then see the same game in which they have another exaggerated wedding that becomes a global spectacle and is weakened and written over the media industry. It is the same where these wealthy people use these celebrations as an expression and expression of influence.
The relationship between George and Bertha is a very precarious place this season. Did you see that coming?
I didn't know how it would play out, but it seemed to me to be inevitable through the final season. I don't know how often George says in the first two seasons to Gladys: “I will make sure that you get married out of love.” It's like five or six times, so the flag was planted.
Why does George mean so much? He is a cold and calculating person in the business. Why is there such a softie when it comes to his daughter?
These two aspects of his life are involved. His ruthlessness is justified by his commitment to protect his family and maintain his family. So they rationalize a man to suicide and continue with their business the next day – the people who are really important, their children and their wife, everything is for them. So you have to do your best in the home area. There they can be caring and tender.
George does not want Gladys to marry Duke because she is not in love with him. But is there anything about the Duke that George is not encouraged?
I think Carrie and I wouldn't agree on it. I don't know that Billy, the guy who wants to marry Gladys, is a perfect analogous to a younger version of George, but he's not that far away. The idea that the Duke is as much better than someone like George, there is an implicit criticism of what George has built. No matter how powerful it is, no matter which building he builds, it will still not mean as much as Bertha would like to impress as a 500-year family property in England.
Went the weapon in the first episode when George is a bit in the old west?
Only afterwards. We didn't have these later screenplays when I shot this scene, but when I saw this episode later, it is a lot a Chekov weapon.
In this episode, George Bertha finally admits that they are in a very precarious financial situation. It is so different from the first season in which he included them in the decision -making and informed them about the challenges that he was faced with. Why did he exclude her so completely?
Your communication has collapsed completely. Usually you have this type of chats in your rooms at night and fill each other out what is going on. But her break around Gladys no longer happened. And Bertha is involved in her goals, excluding all other things.
Are the qualities that George have made so successful – this relentless ambition and appetite for risks – that take up it this season?
Yes. His by-means Nousy Drive has succeeded so often, but this formula will not always work. He should probably have been expanding the railway, but I also think that it was distracted. His marriage is not going well. His relationship with his daughter is not going well. He is a kind of chaos in this episode. He is more than he should have had when he should have had. There is a lot of internal disappointment about how he failed Gladys. There is a lot of internal disappointment about its own stupidity in relation to the risk than you.
It turns out that Larry's financial redemption comes and found that the mines that George has released as a necessary acquisition to get through his railroad are actually very valuable. Will his son become a worthy successor?
George wanted to shape Larry according to his picture. But Larry was a amateur. He tried a few different identities and possible career paths, and now he has finally returned to the family business, and it turns out that he has some talent for it. This is pretty satisfactory for George. At least he has a child that he has not yet disappointed.
It sounds to me as if they were feared that they would not get a third season. Have you worried that you would be canceled?
We all had deals at five and six years. During the strike, all of our contracts expire and that was also a time of the incredible tumulty in business. There was this great Netflix correction, and there was a lot of structural challenge in the shop and we knew that our show was very expensive. Many of us had the feeling that the fact that our contracts have decayed was an indication that we were on the side. And then in the second half of the second half it was suddenly: “Oh, there is an audience for this show that we were not sure that we would find each other.” There were of interest to this sudden basic waves. When we got the call to come back, it was incredibly exciting because we all like to work together.
A criticism of the show was that nothing happened. But this season there were weddings, divorces and shootings.
The show is 'the gilded age', right? It is a 30- or 40-year time in American history. The need for world buildings when they tell such a story on a canvas that is so great. And so the entire first season or much of the first season was introducing all of these characters and remembering their names and jobs. And now we can paint on this screen. Are The drama.
Thanks to “the gilded age”, they have become a sex symbol. How was that?
It mainly depends on the character. There is something about a man who is both powerful and caring and loving for his family and wife that is attractive. When an audience deals with what they do, everything they can ever really want is. For this reason it is fantastic. But it is like everything in this business – it is fleeting, but it is flattering.