[Editor’s note: This post contains spoilers for “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, including the series finale.]
The ultimate season of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” featured plenty of time jumps to the future that surprised fans, however maybe none had been fairly as stunning as when Midge (Rachel Brosnahan) visited with Joel (Michael Zegen)…in jail.
It was a surprising twist for the actors as nicely.
“I don’t prefer to know something upfront,” Zegen stated as a part of an IndieWire’s Awards Highlight dialog with Brosnahan. “I prefer to learn the episodes and take it from there.”
“I used to be all the time attempting to let you know secrets and techniques!” Brosnahan reduce in with fun. “However I used to be bursting on the seams with some secrets and techniques and I wanted to inform somebody — and also you’re my particular person and also you wouldn’t hear it half the time.”
Zegen ultimately realized Joel’s darkish and considerably mysterious future due to his make-up artist spilling the beans, however the scene from Episode 5 stays most memorable for the 2 based mostly on what viewers didn’t see.
“There was really an alt ending to that scene, which was simply sexy Midge and Joel in jail,” Brosnahan stated. “It was one of many horniest scenes we’d ever shot. I ponder why it didn’t make it. They had been speaking about boning in a trailer, no?”
“He was saying he needed to love dive throughout the desk and do all types of issues,” Zegen stated.
“So we all know, though it didn’t make the ultimate reduce, there was a model the place they had been nonetheless scorching for one another ‘til the very finish,” Brosnahan concluded, placing essentially the most optimistic spin possible on jailhouse coitus.
As exes, generally mates, co-parents and infrequently lovers, the 2’s onscreen relationship has run the gamut over 5 seasons of the Prime Video Emmy-winning series, so going into the ultimate season the actors puzzled the place issues would land for the duo.
“I had a conversation with Amy after I requested her what would occur over the course of the present,” Brosnahan stated. “She informed me that they might by no means formally find yourself collectively — that there would all the time be a whole lot of love there, they might all the time be part of one another’s lives, however there would by no means be on precisely the identical web page on the identical time ever once more. And that in the future, when Midge leads to her penthouse condo she’s going to all the time look again on the day earlier than Joel left her because the happiest day of her life.”
All collectively now: Awww.
However followers know Mrs. Maisel made issues work along with her real love in any case — it simply wasn’t the one she initially suspected. Within the last episode of the collection, Midge lastly scores her massive break by doing an unsanctioned arise set reside throughout “The Gordon Ford Present,” along with her household, together with Joel, within the studio viewers. The scene was very art-imitates-life in the way it mirrored the on-set expertise.
“I’ve been despatched a whole lot of movies of that final second even because the present aired, and it seems to be prefer it felt,” Brosnahan stated. “Amy saved asking for one more take and one other take of that last second. And I used to be like, ‘What does she want? What’s fallacious?’ After which we realized it was laborious to name that last reduce, print, test, and name the collection.”
“It was laborious,” Zegen stated. “Rachel needed to do the identical set again and again, all week lengthy, whereas they bought the writers’ response, whereas they bought viewers response. When the final ‘reduce, print, that’s a wrap’ was uttered the confetti got here down, everyone was hugging, champagne was handed round, it was 4 within the morning, I believe. It was robust nevertheless it was stunning.”
Their long-running collection might now formally be behind them following a captivating full-circle finale, however some followers are nonetheless on the lookout for clues in regards to the duo’s fortunately ever after standing.
“A bunch of individuals have requested me in regards to the scene, the little clip with you on the finish [when] you progress the image of us from the marriage,” Zegen stated. “They go, ‘Does that imply that they bought again collectively?’ … However simply since you displayed it it doesn’t essentially imply we bought again collectively. Simply, there’s a whole lot of love there. I don’t know, we’ll discover out within the reboot.”
Your transfer, Prime Video.
Watch the complete Awards Highlight dialog between Brosnahan and Zegen above.