These gilded lives see big-deal changes
By the end of the first “Gilded Age” season, Cynthia Nixon was neatly settled into her role.
She was Ada Brook (shown here, left), forever the younger and meeker one. She was living with her older sister, Agnes Brook van Rhijn (right), a widow with much money and many opinions. Ada’s just sort of went along.
Then one day, Nixon recalls, she was chatting with a director. “He started talking to me about who they were going to cast as my husband next season …. I could have fallen out of my chair.”
She was learning that “Gilded Age” isn’t one of those shows where things stay the same. That’s even more obvious, now that the fourth season (9 p.m. Sundays on HBO and HBO Max) has just begun. Read more…