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I HAD ONE PRIVATE REHEARSAL WITH LUKE, BUT THERE WAS NO TIME TO WORK WITH RACHEL. WHEN THE TWO OF THEM GOT TOGETHER, IT WAS MAGIC.
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MARGUERITE DERRICKS choreographer
SEASON 3
couldn’t pull out a cell phone and record your act. You didn’t have to be responsible for what happened in the moment. Lenny and Midge were arrested in the first episode after she performs at the Gaslight. Now, because of cancel culture, they’d be policed by the audience instead of actual o ffi cers. RACHEL BROSNAHAN : In terms of recreating performances from that time, it was highlight after highlight. In the first episode of the third season, Midge and Shy Baldwin [LeRoy McClain] perform for the troops on a USO stop. I remember Amy shooting me a casual text that read, “Oh, by the way, the USO scene has 850 background [players].”
the middle of Long Island. The hangar is full of planes and exhibits, which were all nicely cleared out for us. Actually, they left a few planes for us. There was an uninterrupted three-minute shot that started in the airfield and continued into the hangar and then onto the stage. RACHEL BROSNAHAN : To be on that stage with LeRoy McClain was unlike anything I could possibly describe. It’s the closest I’ll ever feel to being a rock star. LUKE KIRBY : To me, one of the really special things about the show was how we moved into these worlds. That was Miami.
on the town in Miami. She goes to an After Dark taping with Lenny. It was based on Hugh Hefner’s Playboy After Dark that he shot in Chicago in his penthouse. So, we recreated a fictionalized version of that set in Miami. We actually filmed in a house that had been designed by Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural firm. RACHEL BROSNAHAN : We were there in June! Pounds of makeup melted o ff our faces every day. But the storylines were so fun, and it was fun to get to perform at di ff erent clubs and basically do the beginning of the Midge and Lenny thing. MARGUERITE DERRICKS (choreographer): They have a very sexy dance. I had one private rehearsal with Luke, but there was no time to work with
Rachel. When the two of them got together, it was magic.
TIM STREETO : I loved Miami because of the beautiful lighting and music and backdrop to that romance. There’s not a ton of dialogue in their romantic scene, and they even comment on that; you just feel the chemistry. You had to balance that out with the comedy. RACHEL BROSNAHAN : Just when we thought we’d been spoiled enough, we got to perform inside Carnegie Hall at the height of the global pandemic. I have terrible stage fright, but at least I get do-overs and try to explore things in di ff erent ways and spend hours perfecting it. It’s not quite the same as doing live theater, but the nerves are
M. DAVID MULLEN : We shot it near an airport in
M. DAVID MULLEN : Lenny and Midge have a night
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