- Hi, I'm Rachel Brosnahan.
- And I'm Michael Zegen.
- We are here at BuzzFeed to play with puppies.
- And answer your questions.
- We'll try.
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- Here they come.
- Oh, my god.
Hi.
- [Michael] Oh, my goodness.
- Oh, my goodness.
This is the best day of my life.
You're going to have to answer all the questions.
- Okay.
Is there a role that people would be surprised to hear
you auditioned for but didn't book?
- I auditioned for The Last Airbender movie
when I was like 16 or 17.
- I didn't audition for it,
'cause I was like, I'm not--
I think my agent had called
and said that they got this audition for me,
and I was like, no, I'm not,
and it was Fifty Shades of Grey.
I was like, no.
- I auditioned for Fifty Shades of Gray!
- Oh, well, you I could believe,
but me? - What is that supposed
to mean?
- I was like, no, no, no, like what are you--
- Please elaborate.
- Well, I was, what?
No, I mean, you know.
Well, I am just wrong for that.
So.
- No.
- Yes, yes.
- No.
Get out of my question jar.
Which of your castmates
is most like their Maisel character in real life?
- Alex. - Alex.
- Alex Borstein.
- Yeah.
- For sure.
But like Susie, she has a squishy interior, I think.
- Let me put this away.
- She'll never.
No!
I'm digging this.
- You want me to adopt one?
- Okay, yes, to hold the white one.
- Okay, Michael Zegen is going to adopt a puppy today.
- Well,
we'll see how it goes.
- And I'm going to end up with 12 in my house.
- Who has made you the most starstruck?
I loved Teen Wolf growing up, the movie Teen Wolf,
with Michael J. Fox, and I met him once,
and that was incredibly--
I was incredibly starstruck
by Michael J. Fox, as one would be,
but I also auditioned for a TV show once,
and the director was the guy who played Styles.
I lost--
I couldn't say any of the lines.
I was so starstruck.
This was a long time ago, but I was so starstruck
just by auditioning in front of Styles.
- Probably Steven Spielberg.
- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.
- We.
- Him and Styles.
- You want to get down?
We met Steven Spielberg at the Golden Globes
the first time we went, and
I don't know that I was expecting to be as starstruck
as I was, but
I grew up watching Steven Spielberg movies,
and, and
seeing him in person, I just felt like I was so overwhelmed.
- Yeah.
What's your favorite episode
of Marvelous Mrs. Maisel so far?
I like all the Catskills episodes.
- I love the Catskills.
- They are really special,
and I'm nostalgic for a year ago when we filmed there.
It was really fun.
- Yeah, but it was wet.
I also love, I love, I think it's episode five
of last season also in the Catskills
when Abe sees Midge do stand-up for the first time.
- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I feel like we've been building to that moment
since the beginning of this show,
and it did not disappoint.
- And I loved the season finale last year, too.
- I did, too.
- Yeah, it's a really good episode.
- That was with the telethon, I mean, there's some.
- Hey!
Every episode is my favorite.
Who is your funniest Maisel castmate?
So many to choose from.
- There really are.
Alex.
- Alex.
Tony. - Tony.
- Caroline, Aaron.
- Yeah, Kevin.
- Kevin Pollack.
- One of my favorite things about Tony is--
Have you ever shot a scene with Tony late at night?
- Yeah, he gets cranky.
- No, not cranky.
- Oh, well, he's--
- He gets slap happy, and he laughs at all his own jokes.
- He's cranky in the morning.
- No, he's not.
- He's a little cranky in the morning.
Do your best impressions of each other.
- No.
I can't do an impression of you,
but one of my favorite things that you have done
as Joel is when you get all Rico Suave.
You know, you have this swag.
- That's just me.
- And you--
- That's just me.
That's--
- You're right.
So here, let me do it.
It goes.
- (laughs)
Yeah.
What can you tease about season three?
- I think it's no secret that we're
on the road a little bit this season.
Guys!
Sterling K. Brown has joined the cast.
- She does some stand-up.
- I do.
The audiences keep getting bigger and bigger
for Midge's stand-up.
We're going to put all of these guys on the show.
- Are you team Benjamin, team Joel, or team neither
for Midge?
I don't know.
I mean like, yes, I'm team Joel for obvious reasons,
but I thought you and Benjamin had some good chemistry, so.
- [Rachel] Do you think
that Midge and Joel should end up together?
- [Michael] Maybe some day, but
not right now.
I think right now he needs to let her do her thing.
- I agree, but I really love
how their relationship has evolved
over the last couple seasons.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, for sure.
- There's a lot of Benjamin stands.
I've been getting abused on the Instagram
about Zack not being in the cast photo.
- Oh.
- But the whole cast wasn't in the photo.
That doesn't mean anything one way or another.
- Is there a comedian from today
that you'd like to have on your show?
- Ali Wong.
- I love her.
Oh, gosh, she's so good.
I watched a lot of Ali Wong in prep for the show.
Baby Cobra was, I felt like it was sort of a similar,
not the same, but in a similar style.
I feel like Ali and Midge
have a very similar sense of humor.
I would love to have her on the show.
- But I like Billy Eichner.
I think he would be great.
- Oh, yeah, he's a comedian.
- [Michael] I don't know if he does stand-up or anything.
- [Rachel] Come back.
- [Michael] Him or Steve Martin would be cool.
- [Rachel] Oh, yes.
- What were your first impressions of each other?
- We've known each other a long time.
- Yeah.
- I'm scared.
Don't answer that.
- No, my first impression was, I was like,
this girl is amazing
'cause we met, we did a play, a movie script reading,
- Reading.
- Together when you were like 19.
- 19.
- Yeah, I was like, damn this is a good actor right here.
- Thanks.
- So, yeah, that was my first impression.
- I felt the same.
We had a lot of friends in common.
I felt like you were kind of doing what I really
wanted to do in the theater world in New York,
and like alternating between theater and film and TV.
I also thought you were a really, really great actor.
Well, it was nice that we met each other acting.
- Thank you.
Yes.
- At that reading.
- Yeah.
- That was nice when we got to Kim Reed for this,
that we knew each other already.
- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that helped immensely,
and I said this in an interview recently.
when we rehearsed before I went in to test with you--
- Yeah.
- and we were able to rehearse in that little room,
I was like, I got this.
- I felt the same,
- Yeah.
- To be honest, I knew the minute
we started reading together that you,
that it was going to be you.
- What shows are you binge-watching right now?
I just finished Fleabag.
- Yeah, me too.
- Season two.
That was good.
- Barry, Barry is one of my favorite things on TV right now.
I just watched the final season of Veep, which I also love.
- Of Veep, yeah.
- So good.
This one has to come home with me.
Come back.
- What has been your favorite costume
that you've worn on the show?
I like when Joel's not in business mode.
I like where he's like,
he's in like--
- Letting lose?
- Yeah, letting lose Joel.
And I like his ties 'cause all the ties are usually vintage.
- Are they?
Oh, cool.
- Yeah, and they give me a few to choose from,
and I like them.
- This I will say that Donna Zakowska, our costume designer,
keeps outdoing herself.
Every time I go into a costume fitting,
it's like the new best day of my life, except for this.
Nothing will ever top this.
- What's your go-to deli order?
I like matza ball soup.
- Me too.
- And pastrami
or corn beef.
- On what?
On rye?
- Rye, yeah.
And pickles.
I like pickles.
- Pickles are so good.
I like turkey and coleslaw.
- Yeah, that's good, too.
- On a sandwich.
- Tell the truth.
Do you think there's any chance Joel could have made
it as a comic with Midge?
- No!
- With Midge?
- Like as a duo?
No, he's not funny.
- He's kind of funny, but not as funny--
- He's not funny.
- As Midge.
He's all right.
- He's a plagiarizer.
He steals other people's jokes.
- Okay, all right, enough.
- Rachel, can your dogs please make a cameo on the show?
- Yes!
I would love that.
I think Shiba Inu's not so 1950's,
but every family had a pit bull in the 1950's.
Nikki is primed and ready.
She's waiting for her star turn
on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
- Can you tell a story of when you really, you really
capitalized, realized just how huge the show was?
So I was in Times Square, and you know,
there was that, uh-oh.
- Come back! - Come on, guys!
- Break it up, kids.
Come sit on my lap.
- [Michael] Look at these two just like chilling.
- [Rachel] Look at this one.
- And these guys don't want to have anything to do with me.
- [Rachel] He's mine.
- So, I was in Times Square, and this was in, I guess,
back in December.
And I was taking a picture of myself
in front of the big billboard of myself.
- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- You have to do.
Come on, you know.
And this girl stopped me, and she's like,
is that you?
And I was like, yeah.
She's like, I'm from India, and your show is huge in India.
And, so--
- Oh.
- I asked her, why, why is it so big in India.
And she said she thinks that
'cause like the family aspect of the show.
- Yeah.
- [Michael] That was, that was, that was pretty big.
- I had a moment like that recently actually.
I don't know that there's one moment I can point to,
but there's been quite a few.
I can't.
Like, really, lovely and interesting and some weird moments,
but I had a moment the other day where I was seeing a play,
and this girl in the theater just went,
"Are you Rachel Brosnahan?"
And I thought like
'cause we knew someone in common or something--
- Yeah, that happens a lot.
- And she goes,
"I'm from Mexico, and I'm just in town for like two days."
And I, I don't know why that really blew my mind.
She said my name right, too.
- And last but not least, what's your dream role?
- Ooh, fresh.
- Ooh, I would like to play Groucho Marx.
- Oh, man!
That's a really good one.
- I know, I'd like it.
- I'd really love to play Carson McCullers.
- Okay.
- That one's been on my list for a while now.
I love, I love Carson McCullers.
- I can see that.
- And she was so interesting and had such a fascinating
and kind of sad but really rich life.
And I'd love to play her.
What do you think?
All of these adorable puppies are available
for adoption through North Shore Animal League America,
and you better adopt them before I take them all home.
- You can catch the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
on Amazon Prime.
- We're working away on season three.
- Thanks for watching,
and
bye. - Bye!
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