As Agnes van Rhijn in The Gilded Age, Christine Baranski embodies a New York matriarch bound by stringent class division and societal contest—something the show’s creator Julian Fellowes so famously explored within the British aristocracy in Downton Abbey.
Baranski conveys both generations of painful suppression and a wry humor as Van Rhijn—a woman upholding a family legacy while supporting her sister (Cynthia Nixon), niece (Louisa Jacobson) and son (Blake Ritson).
A two-time Tony winner, an Emmy winner and 16-time nominee, here Baranski talks shooting Season 3 and reveals juicy details about her upcoming Season 2 of Nine Perfect Strangers with Nicole Kidman. DEADLINE: Last time we sat down for a proper chat was for The Good Fight.
What a show… CHRISTINE BARANSKI: Yes! Somebody was just asking me how Diane Lockhart would feel about all of the things happening in American politics.
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