Carrie Coon talks about Merritt Wevers role in the 3 -season of “The Goled Age”, season 3

Spoiler alarm: This piece spoils episode 4 of light The gilded age Season 3.

The gilded age The third season reached half the way on Sunday evening with a big episode that concentrated around the wedding of Gladys (Taissa Farmiga) with the Duke of Buckingham (Ben Lamb), and the key to the early of the wedding is the arrival of Merritt Wevers character Monica O'Brien.

Monica is Bertha Russell's sister (Carrie Coon), but Bertha does not make the fact that she has known a sister, and it is her son Larry (Harry Richardson), who ultimately invites Monica to Gladys' wedding, surprisingly Bertha and not in a good way.

“I believe that Bertha comes from one of the working class more than [George]One that she doesn't like to admit ” [Turner] Has such beautiful hands in season 1. We would always joke [that] I have these hands for potato graves, and whenever they were in front of the camera at the same time, you could see who was more elegant. I always had the feeling that Bertha felt a bit exposed anyway, as if I felt exposed when I play this kind of characters, but Merrit was such a joy. She is so deeply honest. ”

Monica O'Brien comes to Berha's manor house, but she can read immediately that Bertha is not exactly happy to see her. George (Morgan Spector) and Larry. Also, she is not afraid of the big questions at dinner.

“[Merritt] Just goes in and she is a person, and it all brings a shame when she acts because I suddenly feel like you could see my acting from the room when she is there, but of course she was wonderful, “added Coon.

Relatives: “The Taissa Farmiga of gilded age about Gladys' fate and her emotional state:” I don't think that she has pleasant feelings towards anyone “

At some point the strong contrast between the lifestyle, which Bertha has chosen for herself, and that of her sister shows when Monica will wear the same dress for dinner during the night before the ceremony and the wedding. Bertha may have some coffee to fix it, which she did not see right for her audience.

“She was written down very herself, and she was beautiful in the role, but she went this trip with us and I loved it to express her. But of course we have all the types of people who benefit this year, and everyone is only wonderful, and everyone from the theater community that could connect us was a pleasure,” said Coon. “I think that I learn from people like Merritt when they come on set. They do better to us in what we do. First they make us feel ashamed and then make us better.”