Rachel Brosnahan on ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Series Finale: ‘It Was the Perfect Way to End’
variety.comAngelique Jackson SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from the series finale of “The Marvelous Mrs.
Maisel,” now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. More than half a decade ago, Rachel Brosnahan stepped in front of a vintage microphone to deliver a standup routine as 1950s Upper West Side housewife-turned-comic Miriam “Midge” Maisel.
It was early on in production for the first season of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” and she was terrified. “I remember turning to Alex [Borstein, who plays Maisel’s no-nonsense manager Susie Myerson] and going, ‘Please don’t let me suck,’” Brosnahan tells Variety. “’If you see something, say something; like, please, any advice at all, I’ll take it.’ She looked at me and said, ‘I can’t help you.
Take up your space, and ask for what you need. And bring this character into the world. Nobody knows who she is but you.’” In the series finale, titled “Four Minutes,” Brosnahan (who has won Emmy, SAG, Critics Choice and Golden Globe awards for the role) performs one last set — when Midge appears on “The Gordon Ford Show,” the Johnny Carson-esque late-night talk show where she’s working as a writer.
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