‘It’s about a woman finding her voice’: Mrs Maisel star Rachel Brosnahan on great roles – and controversial men
It is a bright, windy day in Paris and a maze of cordoned-off streets beside the Seine have been hauled back into the 1950s. Frank Sinatra’s I’ve Got the World on a String blares from the speakers, soundtracking the movements of a very well-behaved donkey, as a crowd of extras pretend to shop. Around them stands the kind of crew you would expect to find on a generously budgeted film. But this is the set of The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Amazon’s stealth-hit comedy about the adventures of a well-to-do Jewish housewife turned outrageous standup comedian.
Even in this golden age of TV there aren’t many productions that would be given the green light to film a handful of scenes halfway across the globe, apparently just for the hell of it (after a day on set, it is still not clear why the series needed to temporarily relocate from New York to the French capital). But Mrs Maisel is a triumph of the streaming era. At this year’s Emmys, it took home a staggering seven awards, cementing the reputation of its showrunner, Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, and minting a new star in Rachel Brosnahan, the woman responsible for bringing Miriam “Midge” Maisel to life.
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