The Marvelous Mrs Maisel’s Rachel Brosnahan: ‘You can always find a way forward’ — theguardian.com

After finding her feet in House of Cards, Rachel Brosnahan made the Marvelous Mrs Maisel all her own. Now she’s playing a 70s gangster’s moll on the run. Not bad for a self-confessed nerd and introvert…During lockdown in New York, Rachel Brosnahan really got into Survivor. Like, really into it. There are 40 seasons of this reality show where contestants are marooned and left to fend for themselves, and for her and her husband Jason, this was… a re-watch. “It really is a mirror for our society,” she chirrups over Zoom, in the way people deep into a reality show sometimes do. “People from all different walks of life thrown together in a survival situation.” She has the Survivor patter, she has the Survivor socks, she has the Survivor water bottle, and, importantly, she has learned the Survivor lessons. Having completed the final series she graduated to a History Channel show called Alone, which is the same, but lonely. If Brosnahan were to be dropped into a jungle tomorrow, she’s confident she’d be absolutely fine. “I’ve picked up a thing or two.” Short pause while she considers it with some seriousness. “That is, if I had time to prepare. If not, I’d definitely get eaten.”Brosnahan used to wrestle. A bookish “serious nerd” born in Milwaukee, she grew up in a sporty family, eventually persuading her publisher father and British mother that, though she’d been a snowboarding tutor and on the school wrestling team for years, her future was on stage. Continue reading...

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