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‘The Gilded Age’ Creator Stresses “The Luck Element” Of Marriage As Gladys Russell’s Prospects Pick Up With Episode 2 Of Season 3
In interviews with Deadline, 'The Gilded Age' creator Julian Fellowes and star Morgan Spector weighed in on arranged marriage for Season 3's plot.
Those who tuned in for the Season 3 premiere last weekend will remember that Taissa Farmiga’s Gladys Russell ran away from home in the middle of the night as a rebellious response to her mother Bertha’s rumored arranging for The Duke of Buckingham to come back to their mansion. When Mr. George Russell ( Morgan Spector) comes home from Morenci, Arizona where he is tending to railroad business, he is greeted with a heated discussion between mother, daughter and son about Gladys’ lack of agency in who she can marry. Those who have watched the period drama since Season 1 may remember that Gladys also had high hopes for Tom Blyth’s Archie Baldwin, one of her suitors before she was even out in society, but it was her father who turned down the young man at the time through a twisted job offer to bribe him.
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