TheGildedAge creator Julian Fellowes and co-writer Sonja Warfield discuss the lavish HBO drama series, balancing the lives of so many characters, and telling a very American story.
Co-written by show creator Julian Fellowes and Sonja Warfield, the HBO drama series The Gilded Age is set in the lavishly extravagant world of late 19th century New York and finds the orphaned Marian Brook moving into the home of her aunts, Agnes van Rhijn and Ada Brook .
FELLOWES: I love that. Funnily enough, you do it with your own work. I watched Gosford Park the other day, and I haven’t seen it for about five or six years. I noticed lots of little things that I don’t think I’d ever noticed before. I love that. FELLOWES: I think I did have a desire to tell an American story, yes. That’s from quite long ago. I’ve been coming here for coming up to 52 years. That’s more than half a century. And I lived in L.A. for a couple of years, at one point. So, I do feel very bonded with America and I did think that would be interesting. Of course, in a way, because of having an American character, one of the dollar princesses, in a series I wrote called Downton Abbey. I think that was a step towards it.
WARFIELD: Well, they didn’t say that, at first. All of a sudden, I was meeting Julian, and then they were like, “Okay, it’s a job.” I was like, “Wait, what?” I didn’t know what was happening, but I jumped at the chance. It was fantastic. I just love the characters and the world, and I’m a big Edith Wharton fan. I grew up going to the Cleveland Historical Society when I was a kid, just on my own because I liked to go.
What are the biggest challenges for the two of you to tell a story that has so many characters and so many families? How do you approach who to focus on and when to focus on them? FELLOWES: I think we have accomplished everything we wanted. Always, when you are making a show, there’ll come a moment when someone says, “We can only get this actor for three days in July and is it okay if they’re not skiing, but they’re playing tennis,” and that will change it. To a certain extent, you have to be professional about that sort of thing. You can’t just wail and say, “It’s got to be my way.
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