“Then I realized that that’s the key to what Midge is experiencing in this season too.”
Midge Maisel has traded in her microphone for a pencil for the time being.
“But it was a different world, and we wanted to make the audience have different experiences.
Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) starts a new job as a writer on The Gordon Ford Show on ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’.Philippe Antonello/Prime Video
It felt like a good time to to throw her into that new mix and see what happened.
Again, it’s a time when there were basically no women, it was Madeline Pugh and out.
“Weirdly, those actors all bonded in a very strange way.
They started acting like writers in a writers' room.
The career shift is not only a big change for Midge, but for the woman who plays her.
“Then I realized that that’s the key to what Midge is experiencing in this season too.
She’s giving it 110 percent.
Maiselpremiered in 2017, Midge has been compared to iconic comedianJoan Rivers, as a bawdy, trailblazing comic.
So, parallels between Midge and Rivers seem to only be stronger with this season 5 storyline.
But Brosnahan sees any ties between Midge and Rivers as a narrative from outside of the show.
Then, also something totally singular.”
In fact, Brosnahan sought inspiration in another female comic of the era.
“There’s a couple short clips of her on YouTube that I studied religiously.
I borrowed a number of physical gestures from Jean Carroll.
Turns out Midge is an entity all her own.
The Marvelous Maiselis now streaming onPrime Videowith new episodes dropping every Friday through May 26.
