Christine Baranski’s career is so vast and varied — from starring roles in “The Good Wife” and its spinoff “The Good Fight,” to spending decades in New York City theater, to stealing scenes as the …
, embodies that “whole thing” and then some. So when Fellowes reached out to offer Baranski a part that occupies what many “Downton” fans will recognize as the Dowager Countess role , she didn’t hesitate. “I mean, who wouldn’t want to play an elitist snob written by Julian Fellowes?” she says. “He does it awfully well.”century England to post-Civil War New York City, where old money power players struggle to keep power from new money interlopers .
I think when Marian says to me that servants deserve some time off as well, and Agnes turns to her and says, “?” So yes, she’s got some marvelous one-liners and just drips with condescension. But I came to love that character. She was so be horrified by this rampant spending and display of money, this thinking that one could buy your way into society. She sees that kind of degradation in the world happening, and look where we are now, and how far rampant capitalism has gotten us in our world.
Watching the show, it’s hard not to be taken by the sheer scale of this production. What was it like to shoot in that version of New York versus the other ones that you’ve inhabited throughout your career? Especially because your other show is so purposefully timely — there’s no escaping the world on that one.
Oh, Cynthia texted me and said, “is it true that they’ve offered you ‘The Gilded Age’? I might play your sister,” and I said, “yes, oh my God, let’s do this!” We adore each other. 37 years ago, I was pregnant with my firstborn daughter, and Cynthia played my daughter in a Tom Stoppard play called “The Real Thing.” She was a student at Barnard, and I played her mother. Now I’m playing her sister. [laughs] Her much older sister, I might add.It was October 2020. We were ready to go in the spring.
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