‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Star Rachel Brosnahan Recalls Being Told She Was ‘Not Funny’
etcanada.comShe’s won an Emmy for playing a stand-up comic, yet Rachel Brosnahan reveals that early in her career she was told to avoid comedy because “was not funny.” Brosnahan shared that nugget of information during Prime Video show’s FYC event on Thursday for “The Marvelous Mrs.
Maisel”, held at Brooklyn’s Steiner Studios. During the panel discussion with the “Maisel” cast and series creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino, reported People, Brosnahan revealed that she “spent the first couple years of my career being told I was not funny” before being cast as the show’s titular comedian, Midge Maisel. READ MORE: Rachel Brosnahan Admits She Gets ‘Stress Dreams’ Over ‘The Marvelous Mrs.
Maisel’ “It wasn’t like an insulting thing. It was really just a lot of people who were professionals kind of saying, ‘You might want to head in a different direction.
Maybe consider something over here.’ I think it’s been a really challenging and really incredible exercise over the last couple of years,” she continued.
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