‘The Gilded Age’ Star Morgan Spector on Wanting a Musical Episode, Keeping His Iconic Beard ‘Immaculate’ and ‘Bad’ Auditions
variety.comMarc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events With so many Broadway icons — including Christine Baranski, Kelli O’Hara, Michael Cerveris and Nathan Lane, to name a few — starring in HBO’s “The Gilded Age,” Morgan Spector thinks a musical episode of the series is overdue. “You know what we should do?
There’s the British tradition of the Christmas special,” Spector tells me on this week’s episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast. “If we could have a Christmas special, then we could have some singing and it would be great.
Give the people what they want.” Season 2 of the Julian Fellowes historical drama wraps up with the finale premiering on Dec.
17. Spector, who plays railroad magnate George Russell with Carrie Coons as his socially ambitious wife, insists he still doesn’t know if a third season is confirmed. “I wish I knew whether we were going to have one or not,” he says. “We won’t find out, I think, until they’re going to air everything and then make a decision based on all of our metrics and whatnot.” Spector and I caught up over Zoom from his New York City area home. What do you remember about your very first day on set of “The Gilded Age?” The first day on set was a scene with Carrie, and it might’ve been our first scene of the first episode, where we go to my library and I’m sitting there smoking a cigar, and she comes and sits on my lap.
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