‘The Gilded Age’: Carrie Coon & Morgan Spector Kick Off Season 2 Production In First Look Photo
deadline.comProduction has officially begun on Season 2 and HBO is giving fans a first look at the set in a new photo of Carrie Coon and Morgan Spector above.
Shooting is underway in Rhode Island and New York state.While it’s unknown how much time has elapsed since the Season 1 finale, the Russells have plenty of reasons to look so gleeful.
At last, Bertha (Coon) made her big debut in society with a glorious gala that was attended by anyone who is anyone in New York City—even if some were there against their wishes.Yes, the likes of Agnes van Rhijn (Christine Baranski) and her sister Ada Brook (Cynthia Nixon) dressed to the nines for the celebration but they only made an appearance at the behest of their longtime friend Caroline Astor (Donna Murphy), who was there herself to please her daughter.Here’s what HBO is teasing about Season 2: The Gilded Age was a period of immense economic change, huge fortunes made and lost, and fierce rivalry between old money and new.
Nowhere is that rivalry more apparent than on East 61st Street, where Marian Brook (Louisa Jacobson) and her thoroughly old money aunts, Agnes and Ada, live opposite the stupendously rich George and Bertha Russell.The Russells are both fiercely ambitious, he financially, she socially, and they are determined to reach the highest echelons of New York.
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