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, however it didn’t make the seismic shift in energy much less stunning for the inhabitants. Cynthia Nixon‘s Ada is now the lady of the home after inheriting late husband Luke’s (Robert Sean Leonard) fortune and Oscar (Blake Ritson) shedding Agnes’ in a grimy funding scheme. Agnes must come to phrases together 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 instantly not the pinnacle of the family, which you’ll be able to inform from the way in which Season 2 ended, that this proud haughty woman who was used to being primary is instantly not that,” Baranski instructed Deadline in an interview concerning the Julian Fellowes sequence and her sixteenth profession Emmy nomination. “In order that fall from grace and that fall from energy, that’s at all times 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 believe, her having to eat humble pie.”
Baranski additionally stated to anticipate an analogous tempo subsequent season now that the pesky Season 1 exposition job is out of the way in which.
“It’s as eventful as Season 2,” Baranski revealed, “as a result of Season 1 was largely establishing all these characters. It was a variety of exposition, however I believe the explanation Season 2 was so thrilling to folks 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 together 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 yr’s new episodes, hinting that she’d be serious about seeing the sequence run for one more decade. “It’s wonderful to me how standard and the way invested the general public is for the reason that second season,” she stated. “If you consider it, actually, you could possibly 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 hold taking part in Agnes for that lengthy? “In a phrase, sure,” Baranski admitted. “It shoots in Brooklyn. She’s an impressive character. There are all types of locations you could possibly take her. As I stated, there’s so many narratives he may spin as a result of it’s these characters residing by means of a turbulent and transformative time in American historical past. And I like my colleagues. I like Cynthia. I imply, she’s simply the perfect 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 recognized for being a champion of ladies’s causes, in addition to being pushed, pragmatic, and fierce. These are traits you could possibly additionally apply to Agnes in The Gilded Age. Although Agnes is rather more dedicated to the established order with regards to fraternizing with new cash New York, she has progressive beliefs with regards to girls’s independence.
“I used to be considering 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 battle to maintain her steadiness 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 lady, and her personal sister,” she continued. “That’s inside her home domestically, however then her outer world, the folks throughout the road are altering her world. And the way do folks like that, girls like that, hold their integrity and hold their sense? How do they survive that? It’s been great to play each roles for that purpose.”
Baranski additionally shared that Diane and Agnes remind her a variety of her personal mom, who was additionally pressured by circumstance to be fiercely impartial.
A casting announcement for The Gilded Age on August 12 revealed that the ladies’s suffrage motion will likely be a part of Season 3. It is going to be fascinating to see how Agnes entails or distances herself from that motion.
The Gilded Age, Season 3 Premiere, 2025, HBO
