‘The Gilded Age’ star Taissa Farmiga says Gladys’ wedding is ‘rock bottom’

This article contains spoilers on The golden age Season 3, episode 4, “The wedding is a bet”.

Here is the bride, walking towards her destiny …

It was really the atmosphere of the Sunday evening episode The golden ageIn which Gladys Russell (Taissa Farmiga) was finally the victim of her mother’s ambitions and walked in the aisle, escorted by his Résisse George (Morgan Spector) father, to marry the Duke of Buckingham.

Even if George had promised Gladys that she could marry for love, she does not fully see her objections until Mr. Russell judges him too late to retreat, not leaving him the choice than to walk in the aisle while she sobbed under her veil.

“It’s brutal,” says Spector about the scene. “She Keening, you know what I mean? It was very dark, honestly. After reading the end of this episode, which is overwhelming, then I knew that I had her descend into the aisle, it was brutal. It was horrible.”

Farmiga agrees, commenting on how the episode – both the dismal promenade in the aisle and the final scene where Gladys looks at the Brooklyn bridge pass by the window of his berth on the ship moving from his home in England.

“It is roughly the bottom of the rocks,” she said Entertainment every week. “And the night of the wedding. There are just a lot of things that Gladys slides slowly.”

The wedding scene was an exhausting sequence for her to shoot, due to the dark emotional state of Gladys. “She is completely empty and exhausted at the time,” notes Farmiga. “There is still Billy’s sorrow, knowing that the man she loved and who was fighting was not fighting for her. You can imagine how much it feels; So that the person you love does not meet the expectations you have.

“The whole world tells her that she has to do this thing she doesn’t want to do, and it’s not going well,” she continues. “His father says he is for his part, but also he is like” you should have barely said. “But it is numb.

While Farmiga and Spector had to exploit a small emotional numbness for the scene, the other actors who invented the marriage guests had to testify to the tragedy of Gladys. “It was the most moving scene to be there as a spectator,” said Harry Richardson, who plays Gladys’s brother Larry. “Taisse was so incredible that falls into the emotional state of the scene. Between the configurations, the whole church has become dead, and you could simply hear this very beautiful groan which was happening before doing action. Everyone in the church was just chills for what this woman is going through.”

For Farmiga, it just fed the distress of Gladys. “There are hundreds of people around you, then there are few familiar faces,” she explains. “I see Harry, I see Ashlie Atkinson, who plays Mamie Fish. I see some faces that are comforting in Gladys.

“I remember every time I attracted your eyes,” she said to Richardson. “I would see your smile you take off. But when they see me passing in front of their alley, you see the sorrow and despair in this woman. Each time we caught our eyes, it turns on me again.”

However, Farmiga wanted to be sure to keep Gladys sorrow at the time held at silent tears under his veil. “She is exhausted,” she notes. “It’s a little more contained at that time. She cried so much. So the tears occurred when they called” riding “to go there – and then it was just the remaining feeling of” I have nothing else to give “.”

Although George has traveled his daughter in the aisle to save face, this marriage will probably not mark the end of this particular argument between George and Bertha (Carrie Coon).

“She wants her daughter to have a life that has a sense of goal and fulfillment,” said Coon about Bertha’s relentless insistence on this marriage. “She can be more ambitious for Gladys than she is for herself, but she has an instinct on this subject, and she trusts her instinct for better or for worse. What she loses sight of is George. She does not realize how far they are.”

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The public, however, the fact, after seeing George spend two seasons promising to Gladys not to force her in a marriageless marriage. “I really felt like it was going to be inevitable,” said Spector about the pressure that it put in place Russell’s marriage. “Because George has passed the first two seasons to say:” You can certainly get married for love and I will protect you and assure me that this happens. “And at this stage, Bertha said:” You definitely marry the Duke.

Now that Bertha has its way, is the ship well itself?

The golden age Broadcast on Sunday at 9 p.m. He / PT on HBO.