Exclusive Interview – Hollywood Life

Donna Murphy is simply as thrilled in regards to the second season of The Gilded Age as the remainder of us. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with the Broadway icon about season 2 and who from the Broadway world she’d like to see present up within the sequence. (Note: This interview was carried out previous to the SAG strike.)

“There was a lot of writing that was happening as we were filming the second season, so there was a lot that was surprising us as we were going through filming,” Donna instructed HollywoodLife on the Sony Pictures Classics and The Cinema Society’s screening of The Miracle Club on July 11, which occurred on the Tribeca Screening Room and Ladurée Soho. “But they always tell us we’re not allowed to say a damn thing, which is so boring. But of course, I got to have some wonderful scenes with Miss Carrie Coon.”

Donna, who performs Caroline Astor, believes the second season of the present will premiere in September 2023. HBO has not introduced an official premiere date but. The first season was stuffed with so many Broadway stars like Donna, Audra McDonald, Kelli O’Hara, and extra. There are a few different stage mega-stars Donna want to see pop up on this interval drama.

“Victor Garber. I’d like for him to be revealed as Mr. Astor. I think Bernadette Peters has to find her way into the show,” Donna stated.

The 5-time Tony nominee calls The Gilded Age a “deliciously fun experience. I mean, it’s a long workday when you’re in the constrictions of that time period and wigs and wool and it’s 105 degrees in Troy, New York, and you’re acting as if it’s springtime, and you’re accustomed to wearing these corsets and such, but it’s a small price to pay to do something that’s such really magical storytelling.”

Disney has been immersed in an period of live-action variations of their animated hits, and Tangled has come up time and time once more. So, would she reprise her position as Mother Gothel if a Tangled live-action film involves fruition?

“Never say never,” the actress admitted. “It’s not something that when I initially heard about it I thought, ‘They better ask.’ But my choices about what I do work-wise have been very much connected to my parenting because I’m a single mom since my late husband passed away. My choices have to do with how I can be present both in my work and for my daughter. So you just never know and also, it’s like, what did I do last? I don’t want to do whatever I did last. I want to do something new and something that’s going to stretch me. I mean, I played Mother Gothel, but who the hell knows.”