Agnes van Rhijn has a humorous uphill battle in The Gilded Age Season 3, set to premiere in 2025. So says Christine Baranski, who gave a sneak preview into the upcoming season in a brand new interview.
The Season 2 finale of the HBO interval drama noticed the van Rhijn family’s rotten luck flip round, nevertheless it didn’t make the seismic shift in energy much less stunning for the inhabitants. Cynthia Nixon‘s Ada is now the girl of the home after inheriting late husband Luke’s (Robert Sean Leonard) fortune and Oscar (Blake Ritson) dropping Agnes’ in a unclean funding scheme. Agnes should come to phrases along with her lack of energy in the home, and Baranski says it’s going to make for plenty of laughs within the new season, now filming in New York.
“Properly, she has to manage, doesn’t she? She’s all of the sudden not the top of the family, which you’ll inform from the best way Season 2 ended, that this proud haughty girl who was used to being primary is all of the sudden not that,” Baranski instructed Deadline in an interview in regards to the Julian Fellowes sequence and her sixteenth profession Emmy nomination. “In order that fall from grace and that fall from energy, that’s all the time such a scrumptious factor to play, and the autumn of a King is simply as thrilling because the rise. So it makes for lots of humor, I feel, her having to eat humble pie.”
Baranski additionally stated to count on an identical tempo subsequent season now that the pesky Season 1 exposition job is out of the best way.
“It’s as eventful as Season 2,” Baranski revealed, “as a result of Season 1 was largely establishing all these characters. It was a number of exposition, however I feel the explanation Season 2 was so thrilling to individuals is that they have been already invested in these characters, they knew the world of The Gilded Age they usually have been able to go along with the excessive drama. In order that’s just about persevering with into Season 3.”
The Mamma Mia star additionally mirrored on the elevated fan assist to final 12 months’s new episodes, hinting that she’d be all for seeing the sequence run for an additional decade. “It’s wonderful to me how fashionable and the way invested the general public is because the second season,” she stated. “If you concentrate on it, actually, you may do that present for 10 years as a result of it’s all American historical past and the way this world was. America was altering so quickly throughout these years. I imply, it may take you into the start of the twentieth century. It’s simply thrilling.”
Would she be all the way down to preserve enjoying Agnes for that lengthy? “In a phrase, sure,” Baranski admitted. “It shoots in Brooklyn. She’s a powerful character. There are all types of locations you may take her. As I stated, there’s so many narratives he may spin as a result of it’s these characters dwelling via a turbulent and transformative time in American historical past. And I really like my colleagues. I am keen on Cynthia. I imply, she’s simply the most effective performing pal.”
We’re sport if she is! Baranski additionally famous similarities between Agnes and Diane Lockhart, her character on The Good Spouse and The Good Battle. Diane, a personality that earned Baranski six consecutive Emmy nominations, was a lawyer identified for being a champion of ladies’s causes, in addition to being pushed, pragmatic, and fierce. These are traits you may additionally apply to Agnes in The Gilded Age. Although Agnes is far more dedicated to the established order with regards to fraternizing with new cash New York, she has progressive beliefs with regards to ladies’s independence.
“I used to be pondering of the similarities of Diane and Agnes. The world round them, the world that they know, that they respect, that they’ve adhered to, with Diane it was the authorized world, the rule of legislation. And the political world, the world that she believed in,” Baranski stated. “You watch her wrestle to maintain her stability in a world the place the guardrails are coming off, and it’s true of Agnes.”
“The society during which she resides is altering so quickly, and inside her personal home with the arrival of her niece, who’s this younger feisty girl, and her personal sister,” she continued. “That’s inside her home domestically, however then her outer world, the individuals throughout the road are altering her world. And the way do individuals like that, ladies like that, preserve their integrity and preserve their sense? How do they survive that? It’s been fantastic to play each roles for that cause.”
Baranski additionally shared that Diane and Agnes remind her a number of her personal mom, who was additionally compelled by circumstance to be fiercely impartial.
A casting announcement for The Gilded Age on August 12 revealed that the ladies’s suffrage motion can be a part of Season 3. It will likely be fascinating to see how Agnes includes or distances herself from that motion.
The Gilded Age, Season 3 Premiere, 2025, HBO
