Rachel Brosnahanknows you think Midge is a bad mother.
She also doesn’t particularly think you should care.
“I love Esther and I love how she turned out,” says Sherman-Palladino.
Rachel Brosnahan on ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’.Prime Video
“It was fun,” she adds, speaking about confronting the haters.
“Every decision comes with consequences.
That’s always been our point about Midge.
Caroline Aaron, Kevin Pollak, Michael Zegen, Rachel Brosnahan, Marin Hinkle, and Tony Shalhoub on ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’.Philippe Antonello/Prime
The minute she decided, ‘I want to be the best,’ that comes with consequences.
you’re free to’t have it all.
I don’t care what Sheryl Sandberg tells you.
Rachel Brosnahan on ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’.Amazon Studios
you might lean in all you want.
This is a story about a woman discovering her own ambition.
The ambition was always going to win.”
“Her kids are saying she’s been a bad mother.
You’re just trying to f— them up the least.
You end up f—ing them up sometimes in the most surprising of ways.
So it feels inevitable, no matter how great or bad a parent you are.”
“Where that line is and how it’s changing as her perspective on her limited worldview changes.
She also emphasizes that Ethan and Esther had plenty of support from other members of their family.
Often dysfunctional in a lot of ways,” the creator says.
“These kids had basically a stay-at-home father.
They had a very, very strong father who shouldered the burden.
They had two sets of grandparents that always were there for them.
It’s only an issue because of the way the narrative challenges mid-century gender norms.
He’s given her the space to pursue a career that men at this time are ordinarily pursuing.”
“But she’s put a system into place that supports kids.
So, yeah her kids are kind of f—ed up.
She went into stand-up comedy.
You don’t do that because you’re well-adjusted and normal.”
“The story was not really about them, it was about Midge,” she concludes.
“When she looks back on her life, what’s her takeaway from her own decisions?
