Taissa Farmiga is explaining the rationale why her character, Gladys Russell, determined to say sure to marrying the Duke of Buckingham (Ben Lamb) in The Gilded Age season three, episode three.
The younger heiress had her eyes set on a unique suitor, Billy Carlton. Nevertheless, she was finally rejected by him.
Now, Taissa is reflecting on why Gladys gave in to her mom, Bertha (Carrie Coon), who was pushing for the engagement and dealing laborious behind-the-scenes to make it occur.
Preserve studying to search out out extra…
“I feel, on the finish of the day, it was simply the stress of all people,” Taissa informed Decider. “I feel she was coping with the heartbreak of Billy. She’s coping with the concern of the longer term as a result of she appears like she’s being pressured right into a future she’s not selecting. There’s a numbness that comes with that and you may’t decide while you’re in such an emotionally depleted place, I feel. As a result of there was a lot stress. It’s a must to select…She simply type of doesn’t need the stress anymore?”
“There’s a quick second of connection together with her and the Duke. You realize, she thinks him for not being pretend. So I feel possibly it’s like a tiny little sparkle of a lightning bug at nighttime. It’s sort of like a light-weight guiding you. However I actually assume that she was simply sick of feeling shitty. So she’s like, ‘Let’s simply transfer on,’” she added.
As for her necklace breaking in that final second of the episode…we’ll need to see what that foreshadows in subsequent week’s episode on HBO!
Discover out who you gained’t see on The Gilded Age this season.
