'The Gilded Age' directors, Michael Engler and Salli Richardson-Whitfield, discuss setting up the look and feel of the series, plus what it's like working with the cast and creative team.
Co-written by show creator Julian Fellowes and Sonja Warfield, the HBO drama series The Gilded Age is set in the lavishly extravagant world of late 19th century New York and finds the orphaned Marian Brook moving into the home of her aunts, Agnes van Rhijn and Ada Brook .
MICHAEL ENGLER: Well, first of all, I love working with Julian [Fellowes]. My background is in the theater and what is always most important to me is the writing and the acting. The thing about his material is that it’s all about the actors, the characters and the relationships. I knew there would be that, and I was excited about it.
RICHARDSON-WHITFIELD: I actually had watched every single episode and it’s definitely a world that I enjoy watching and always have. But as a director, it was a great challenge. It’s a new world for me. I had to do a lot of research. I had to read a lot of books. I had to really drench myself in that world. It’s also a challenge because it seems like a show that is a simple to direct, and that’s not at all true.
Salli, I’m familiar with your career as an actor. How have you found that transition, going from acting to directing, and getting the jobs that you want to get? It’s sometimes hard in this industry to get people to let you transition into something else. Do you feel like you are at a place now where you’re getting the jobs as a director that you want?
ENGLER: One of the main things that I felt was most important was, Downton Abbey was an upstairs-downstairs, and I’ve always described this as the right side of the street and the wrong side of the street. There’s the old New York established money and society, and the nouveau riche with the big mansions and all of that.
RICHARDSON-WHITFIELD: We were very lucky. Michael and I are obviously two different people and we are going to direct things differently, but they’re still similar enough that it worked. Michael laid out what his ideas were and his plans, and how he wanted to shoot both homes, and I said, “Okay, don’t worry. I won’t go rogue.” At the end of the day, we really were two separate entities. He was doing his episodes, I was doing mine, and somehow I don’t think they’re that much different.
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