The Gilded Age Season 3 is currently in production in New York. Fans got their first glimpse of Season 3 footage in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it clip in an HBO teaser dropped on August 4, showing Bertha ( Carrie Coon ) and Marian ( Louisa Jacobson ) in the new episodes. On August 12, the network announced eight new cast members joining the already-stacked cast.
Now that teasers and other news are slowly trickling in for the Emmy-winning series (which just scooped up more nominations! ), here’s a roundup of all the latest updates on The Gilded Age Season 3. Carrie Coon as Bertha Russell in The Gilded Age Season 3 (HBO) The Gilded Age Season 2 saw Bertha Russell fighting her opera war against Mrs. Astor ( Donna Murphy ), who wouldn’t allow new-money New York to have boxes at the Academy of Music.
Bertha focused her efforts on making the new Metropolitan Opera the place to be, and she succeeded. Victory came at a price; to secure the Duke of Buckingham’s ( Ben Lamb ) attendance, and thus snub Mrs. Astor, Bertha seemed to have promised daughter Gladys’ ( Taissa Farmiga ) hand in marriage.
Husband George ( Morgan Spector ) will not be pleased. Season 2 also marked a massive shift in the Van Rhijn household after Oscar ( Blake Ritson ) lost nearly all of mother Agnes’ ( Christine Baranski ) family fortune in a scheme carried out by Maud Beaton ( Nicole Brydon Bloom ). Luckily for them, the house didn’t need to be sold and the staff didn’t need to be fired thanks to Ad.