The Marvelous Mrs. Maiselcast and crew made the most out of their final days on set.
The Prime Video series returned for its fifth and final season on April 14, and its series finale arrived on May 26. Ahead of its final bow, the cast and creators spoke exclusively to PEOPLE about the last day they all spent together on the show’s set.
“It was emotional, close. We felt so lucky to all be there together,” starRachel Brosnahan, who plays Miriam “Midge” Maisel, said at the show’s season 5 premiere event in New York City. “We had the entire family and almost every character who had been on the show for any significant amount of time over the five years there. So we got to close the chapter together and it was pretty good.”
Alfie Fuller, a.k.a Dinah Rutledge, said it “was always a joy showing up to set, but that final day was a little teary knowing that we’re closing this chapter.
“It was such a wonderful chapter. So it was a little teary,” she admitted. “I misted up a little bit, though I tried to keep it cool.”
“I love all of these people and working with them, it’s been an amazing ride,” he said. “Knowing that it was our final season before we even started working helped a lot of shots from January to November. So that’s 11 months celebrating and being grateful.”
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Marin Hinkle, who plays Midge’s mom Rose Weissman, said the cast “had a number of days to shoot and to actually be there presently with a kind of gentle, graceful support.”
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It was also very hard for co-creatorAmy Sherman-Palladinoto bid farewell to the show she helped create six years ago. She said the final day were “incredibly emotional” and filled with “so many tears.”
Sherman-Palladino added, “It was very emotional. I may have gone a few extra times because I didn’t want to say ‘cut.’ But it was great because it was 3 o’clock in the morning and we were all together and we sort of finished the journey together and we drank bad champagne and cried and went home.”
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“There is a moment in, I think it’s [the] Vegas [episode], whereAlex [Borstein]’s character Susie asks for a weird ask, which is on the contract for what Midge is gonna get. And there’s all these stuffed animals in the room,” she explained, referencingMidge’s requestto have a room full of yellow teddy bears. “So backstage, so to speak, we have hundreds of really bizarre-looking stuffed animals and they’re little bears. And I’m kind of a bear lover. And so secretly, I was like, you know, the person that didn’t like want anyone to notice, but I have a lot of bears in my house. So I took a little few bears. Maybe more than a few.”
TheTwo and a Half Menalum continued, “They’re not that attractive and I get made fun of. They’re the kind you win at the carnivals. So they’re like $2 and mostly plastic, but they’re soothing and I bring them on airplanes when I’m flying. So I feel like those beers will hopefully give me a sense of connection to the show and the connection to my past for ever and ever.”
Pollak has taken several items, from plaques to ashtrays. He also asked the set design team’s permission to swipe a dress for his “gal.”
“I took a candy dish and it’s so hilarious. It’s so Shirley. It’s a big apple[-shaped] glass candy dish and it’s in the shape of a duck. And you open its bill. And that’s where you put the candy,” said Aaron while Fuller shared, “I took a couple of clothing items. And I took a little nameplate from Dinah’s desk”.
Even guest starHank Azaria, who plays Danny Stevens, was able to take something before he left. “My character has written a book that he’s promoting,” he explained. “They gave me a copy of it, so I didn’t steal it. And they were kind enough to sign it.”
Sherman-Palladino joked that she’d try to take the entire set “if it was not nailed down.”
“There was like a painting that Midge always had either over her fireplace mantel or someplace like that from the pilot. We grabbed that because we have Stars Hollow stuff,” Sherman-Palladino’s husband and collaborator, fellow co-creator Dan Palladino, said while referencing their former seriesGilmore Girls. “We have signage fromGilmore Girls. We have the Stars Hollow sign and we have the Dragonfly Inn sign, and now we have Midge’s painting.”
“They looked beautiful in his apartment,” she continued. “I’m like, ‘I’m coming to get them this afternoon.'”
Though filming on the beloved series has concluded, theMaiselcrew will get to live out the show’s final moments along with fans season 5 is now available to stream in its entirety.
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All five seasons ofThe Marvelous Mrs. Maiselcan be streamed on Prime Video.
source: people.com
