Alex Borstein Has Only Seen Three Episodes of ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’
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- January 16, 2024
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star has only seen three episodes of her hit Prime Video series — but that’s about to change. The actress, who has been Emmy nominated for her role of every year since the series premiered, told that she only watched the show’s first two episodes and the last one. Once the SAG happen, and , she and her daughter plan to sit down and watch the series from start to finish.
“She’s old enough now, and I’m further far enough away from it to not judge myself harshly,” says Borstein on the . Now that has ended, the Emmy winning actress shares there’s one thing she’s going to miss about playing Susie. “I miss the ability to not edit and just say what you want to say and say what you think and not worry about consequences because it was a time before social media, a time before you could be held to what you said forever and ever and ever,” she explains.
The final season of the critically acclaimed series aired last spring and featured time jumps that showed Midge ( ) and Susie’s lives. When Borstein first read the script, she admits she was “terrified” because she didn’t know how Amy Sherman Palladino and Daniel Palladino were going to pull it off.
“I was not sure this was a good idea like the time jumping and age makeup, and how do I do that?” she remembered thinking. “Who is Susie in 20 years? That’s a lot to think about, and then the finale is what I saw, and you’re doing those scenes, and it was right.” creator Amy Sherman Palladino appeared behind Borstein mid interview on the carpet, and the actress shared her fears with the showrunner, who revealed she didn’t know it would work but trusted Borstein.
When asked if she could imagine writing a Susie spinoff, or any other character for that matter, Amy Sherman Palladino played coy. “There’s always a chance for everything in the world,” the creator said. “We could drop dead in five minutes, or who knows?” THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day More from The Hollywood Reporter.
