Home of Playing cards veteran Rachel Brosnahan trades within the zip ties and inconspicuous hoodies for kitten heels and swing clothes as Miriam “Midge” Maisel, the lead character of Amy Sherman-Palladino‘s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, a brand new Amazon collection a few Nineteen Fifties housewife who finds herself on an sudden journey via nightclubs as an up-and-coming slapstick comedian.

Brosnahan instructions the display simply as her character takes management of the cafe stage. The character—and Brosnahan in actual life—converse at Sherman-Palladino’s trademark whiplash velocity. Midge is unafraid to make use of her voice. To cite Hayley Atwell‘s Agent Carter, one other fictional mid-century TV hero, Midge Maisel is aware of her value, and does not again down.

“Midge does not know any approach however ahead. She’s resilient,” Brosnahan advised E! Information. “She is going to decide herself again up, and she is going to decide herself again up higher than anybody you’ve got ever seen.”

Sherman-Palladino stated she was impressed to create the collection by the tales her late father, a comic book, would inform her about New York Metropolis. As a child rising up within the San Fernando Valley, New York’s Greenwich Village “appeared like a really unique, kind of fanciful Xanadu. Like, New York, individuals took subways! It was simply loopy,” she stated.

With an concept in place, discovering the fitting individual to play Miriam “Midge” Maisel was key to the equation.

“She earned the half the quaint means. She simply gained it,” Daniel Palladino stated about Brosnahan. “We had been on the lookout for some time and we had seen lots of actually, actually nice actresses…Within the midst of the casting course of, our LA casting individual referred to as us and stated, ‘There’s nothing on her resume that basically displays this position or a number of comedy, however I feel Rachel Brosnahan might be Midge.'”

“We knew her from Home of Playing cards the place she was stuffed in a van and buried in a ditch,” Sherman-Palladino stated. “And we have been type of like, ‘Is she humorous? She’s excellent at being zip-tied, however…'”

“We had these actors learn three scenes, together with the stand-up scene, which is hard as a result of it is simply us pretending to be the viewers for these actors, and she or he simply did it. She simply was the one. It felt immediately—she simply grabbed it, knew the right way to do it,” Palladino stated.

“Grabbed it, shook it, wrestled it to the bottom, kicked it within the head,” Sherman-Palladino added. “We have been like, ‘Alright!'”

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is a departure for Brosnahan, who was nominated for an Emmy for Home of Playing cards and went on to star in Manhattan and Disaster in Six Scenes.

“I really like interval items, I am type of a analysis nerd. I like to dive into worlds that really feel actually distant from me, that really feel overseas ultimately. I am an enormous fan of Amy and Dan,” Brosnahan stated when requested why the undertaking appealed to her. “This pilot script is among the greatest scripts I’ve ever learn: It is sharp, it is tight, it is humorous. And in addition, this can be a lady who’s so unapologetically assured and that is not one thing I learn fairly often in any respect, and positively by no means one thing that I performed. That felt necessary to me.”

“To have the ability to current Rachel in a vivacious, kind of energetic comedic approach when often she’s zip-tied and hanging from a tree and individuals are burying her alive—it is a pretty factor to have the ability to present individuals,” Sherman-Palladino stated.

Marin Hinkle performs Rose Weissman, mother to Brosnahan’s character, and stated she sees one thing particular within the actress that is evident within the character. Seeing her work is like “watching this genius little present from the magical heavens,” Hinkle stated of Brosnahan.

“She’s transformative, No. 1. She’s luminous, No. 2, she’s beautiful , and she or he’s religious, and she or he’s assured…This younger lady walked in with power, they did not see utterly fractured and insecure and full of the holes, which is lots of what we love in characters. It is like they needed somebody that was like, ‘Take a look at me world!’ like a Barbra Streisand or Joan Rivers. I am considering Sarah Silverman…we embrace these individuals which might be like, ‘Take me!’ And I feel what’s so nice about her is she’s not aggressive. She’s aggressive in her pursuit of power, however she’s so completely happy, she’s truly actually joyous,” Hinkle stated about each Rachel and Midge.

“Rachel…you see in her, and also you go, ‘We will solely see the beginnings now of this exploding expertise that’s so scrumptious to observe,'” she added.

The character of Midge Maisel is just not one viewers have seen on TV in a while. The husband-spouse duo credit score Amazon for that. Whereas they do get to point out nudity and let the expletives fly, the primary freedom “is to truly actually do a personality like Midge Maisel, which might not match into anybody’s field on the networks and plenty of the cable networks,” Palladino stated.

“We simply use the language as a result of it is a tough world, the comedy world. It is the membership world, there’s organized crime, it is comics, it is jazz musicians. It will be unreal to depict that world and never have anybody cursing, anybody smoking,” Palladino continued. “It is good that we’re in a position to try this, however actually the liberty once you go to a Netflix or an Amazon is that they’re simply in search of totally different topics—”

“Is in your character portrayal,” Sherman-Palladino interjected.

“Yeah, totally different characters, totally different tales to inform. So this would not have lived, we expect, anyplace else besides a few cable networks or a streaming service,” Palladino stated.

Midge Maisel is “a hero,” Sherman-Palladino stated. “She’s an old style, Katherine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck sort of heroine. “

“I really like how formidable she is. That might be it for me. There’s so many issues, however I needed to decide one,” Brosnahan stated about her character’s qualities. “Midge is a lady of her time. To a contemporary viewers it’d really feel like watching her do a few of these issues, you’d think about it is a burden, however for her it provides her a way of accomplishment and satisfaction. She loves, loves, performing, as a lady and housewife. That is one thing that brings her nice pleasure. That was totally different for me and thrilling to seek out all the colours of that.”

On the finish of the day, Sherman-Palladino stated the character’s power is her favourite factor.

“I like that each journey is attacked—as somebody who assaults all the things from cynicism and negativity as a result of that is how my life runs—I like the truth that she assaults in simply kind of a blinding positivity,” she stated.

“You’ll be able to’t knock her down,” Palladino added.

And that is marvelous.

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel season one begins streaming on Wednesday, Nov. 29 on Amazon.