The Gilded Age finally returned to HBO with the season 3 premiere on Sunday night (June 22).
Star Carrie Coon, who portrays Bertha Russell on the series, recently revealed the very short amount of time she had to prepare to return to set for the period piece.
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Carrie said she only had 48 hours to get in the mindset to play the matriarch of the family. Why? She had wrapped filming on HBO’s The White Lotus just hours before!
Carrie told People, “I went from the one set to the other in 48 hours. I have two children and they didn’t care that I had, you know, jet lag or that I needed to rest or work.”
If you don’t know, Carrie is married to writer Tracy Letts and they share two kids.
“So I was woefully underprepared and I had no costumes ’cause I’d been out of the country for six months essentially. What was lovely is they decided to just shoot all my bedroom scenes [first]. So I got to be in all my nightgowns and robes for the first few days. So they really eased me into it,” she continued. “I really just begged them for more time because it’s TV, it moves very quickly and I just needed more time to figure out how to talk, just how to walk around [as Bertha]…I just felt like a stranger in my own family is how I felt, but they were very patient with me and just quite lovely.”
