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Denée Benton Wanted to Show You This Side of Peggy for So Long
The Gilded Age star spent years researching and conversing with colleagues to refine the series’ depiction of Black life.
As the pair get to know each other during longs walks on the coastal cliffs, Peggy’s mother (Audra McDonald) and father (John Douglas Thompson) face off against their potential in-laws. Played by Phylicia Rashad and Brian Stokes Mitchell, the Kirklands are old money: descended from generations of free Black Americans and proud of their lineage to the point of condescension. All those planted seeds have led us into different regions of the diaspora at that time and different depictions of what Black wealth looked like and how white supremacy still showed up inside our own communities.
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