'We knew we were all f****d': Rachel Brosnahan on filming the final scene of 'The Marvelous Mrs Maisel'
Warning: Minor spoilers for 'The Marvelous Mrs Maisel' series finale.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: The series finale of 'The Marvelous Mrs Maisel' aired on Friday, May 26, exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. In the episode titled 'Four Minutes', Miriam "Midge" Maisel officially became the 'Marvelous Mrs Maisel'. The concluding episode of the show showcased Midge (Rachel Brosnahan) taking a monumental career risk as she seized the opportunity to appear on The Gordon Ford Show, despite Gordon Ford's (Reid Scott) objections.
In a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, Emmy-winning actress, Brosnahan, delves into the heartwarming scenes showcased in the final episode and talks about her most memorable scenes from the show. "It felt like this particular set wrapped up so many of the different themes and ideas and questions that Midge has been grappling with throughout the course of the series," she said.
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'It just felt like such a full-circle moment for us'
When questioned about the scene that has lingered with her the most since filming ended, Brosnahan responded, "There’s two. Probably the final 'T**s Up' scene with Alex [Borstein] because it just felt like such a full-circle moment for us, and we literally couldn’t look each other in the eyes when we shot it." Continuing, she said, "Alex can be kind of a brick wall. She doesn’t give a lot away and can be a little bit like Susie in that way. So, when Alex was the first one to start crying on the last day of shooting, we knew we were all f**ked."
"And then the couch scene with Gordon where he calls her the 'Marvelous Mrs Maisel' for the first time. That was the last scene we shot, and my coverage of that scene was the final shot of the series. So, that’s the moment that’s burned in my brain forever," Brosnahan added. "Before we got dressed, we walked onto the set and did some rehearsals. Like I said, Alex and I just couldn’t even look at each other. And Amy [Sherman-Palladino] and I couldn’t look each other in the eyes either. So, everyone was just sort of looking anywhere but at each other and saying the words out loud and standing approximately where we were supposed to be so that everyone could light the scene and figure out what the camera was going to be doing and then started shooting."
'I feel like we were crying'
Brosnahan emotionally recounts the impactful moment they completed filming, sharing, "It was so emotional and everyone was there. I was looking out into an audience of our cast but also our crew because the shot was on me. So everyone was just standing in a semicircle — Marin and Tony and Michael and Joel Johnstone, who plays Archie, and Bailey De Young, who plays Imogene, and Alex and our Steadicam operator and all of our Amazon executives and Amy and Dan [Palladino] and our writers and our focus puller and just all of our cast and crew. It just felt like the only way that the series could have ended was all of us together. It took a small nation to make this show and to be able to end it with everyone was really special."
"I feel like we were crying — everyone — from the minute we arrived on set that day. And in a really beautiful and sort of poetic way, we felt the gravity and the weight of this being the end of this huge chapter, and it also felt like every other day in the very best way," Brosnahan added.