The Gilded Age fans are not the only people anxiously waiting to see what season 4 will entail — stars like AudraMcDonald also have their own storylines they are itching to see unfold.
“Well, I want to know what’s going to happen with ‘Railroad Daddy’, if he’s going to come back to our dear Bertha,” McDonald, 55, exclusively told Us Weekly at The Gilded Age FYC Event in New York on November 18. “I can’t imagine life without the two of them together, they belong together, so their road back to each other is going to be interesting to watch.”
Fellow co-star Taissa Farmiga told Us that she’s looking forward to seeing the storyline develop between Blake Ritson’s Oscar van Rhijn and Mrs. Winterton, who is played by Kelley Curran.
“I feel like Oscar van Rhijn is someone who, I mean, Blake, I just adore as a human and an actor, and him and Mrs. Winterton together, I feel like they get up to so much drama, but like juicy drama,” Farmiga, 31, told Us. “I’m excited to see what chaos they would cause for our society in the 1880s.”
The series also included a strong ensemble cast of stars, including Christine Baranski and Cynthia Nixon. Season 3 premiered on June 22 on HBO Max and wrapped in early August. There hasn’t been a formal announcement regarding the show’s fourth season release date, but it was renewed in July.
Farmiga joked that if there was an opportunity to view her blooper reel from season 3, it would contain “lots of swearing,” among other things.
“I have a pretty foul mouth. I don’t know why it just happens,” Farmiga joked. “A lot of laughing too. I can’t stop laughing, even like the crying scenes, as soon as they call cut, like I need a break. There’s a lot of jokes. There’s just a lot, yeah, especially with Morgan Specter and Carrie Coon. There’s a lot of witty banter going around, so we’re all joking. If it’s an eating scene, you’ll also always see us stuffing our faces in between tanks.”
Spector, 45, plays George Russell, the infamous “Railroad Daddy,” alongside Coon, 44, as his wife Bertha, who he shocked viewers by leaving, in the final moments of season 3.
McDonald’s character, Dorothy Scott, serves as an important representation of Black high society, which is often left out in historical dramas and period pieces.
“The fact that [Black high society] existed and it’s the fact that now a wider audience is seeing that and understanding that, maybe, they’ll now dig into history on their own, as a result,” McDonald told Us. “The Black elite have always existed and to see again that there are many, many, many, many different facets to who we are as a community and as a people. This is a chance to see us out of the normal sort of trauma of either the best friend, the magical Negro, or the downtrodden, you know, enslaved person, all that, we are so much more than that.”
