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Phone: 904-269-5116 RealtyMastersInc.com One car garage. 2 x 2” ad 2 x 2” ad SALES PARTS Thursday, November 29, 2018 SERVICE Rachel Brosnahan stars in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” which begins streaming its second We make season Wednesday customizing on Amazon. your cart easy. 904-214-3723 2581-A Blanding Blvd. ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ – Middleburg, FL 32068 MyCustomCart.com Will the stand-up fall flat? 1 x 5” ad 16th Annual The REAL Lighted Boat Parade Fish Camp! December 8, 2018 @ 6:30pm FISHF CAMP RESTAURANTR Whitey’s& CAMPGROUND Family Owned & Operated Since 1963 2032 CR 220 • South of Orange Park • 904-269-4198 • whiteysfi shcamp.com4 x 3” ad BY GEORGE DICKIE BY GEORGE DICKIE A powerful enemy looms for Midge in Season 2 of ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Checking in with It’s one thing to tell jokes and get laughs. It’s quite another not lost on her worried manager/sidekick Susie (Emmy that’s one of them. That’s one domino she knocked down that to make them at the expense of a very powerful person who winner Alex Borstein). we have to then deal with. And how can we deal with it?” can crush your career, as neophyte stand-up comic Midge As the grind of doing stand-up wears on Midge, the “Susie, I think is terribly concerned because she knows Maisel finds out at the outset of Season 2 of “The Marvelous pressure to tell her parents Abe and Rose (Tony Shalhoub, what it means,” adds Brosnahan of the potential war brewing Mrs. Maisel” this week. GRETCHEN MOL Marin Hinkle) about her new life in the wake of her with Sophie. “Midge, being so new to this world and that Dropping Wednesday, Dec. 5, on Amazon, the new season separation from husband Joel (Michael Zegen) mounts and particular brand of enemy, doesn’t yet know by the time we finds ‘50s Upper West Side housewife-turned-funnywoman her decisions have a ripple on all concerned. leave her in Season 1 what that could mean. And certainly she Midge (Golden Globe and Emmy winner Rachel Brosnahan) will learn more about that in Season 2.” “You’ll see some of the ramifications of those choices that coming to the gradual realization that she’s ticked off the With a resume that includes a lot of drama (“Manhattan,” wrong person, Sophie Lennon (Jane Lynch, who earned an are made,” Borstein offers. “The show really is this woman “House of Cards,” “The Blacklist”) but little comedy, A relative newcomer to science fiction after 20-plus years in Emmy nod for the role), following her public takedown of the Midge Maisel knocking down dominoes constantly and you Brosnahan found herself wading into unfamiliar waters to play television, movies and theater, Gretchen Mol was nonetheless comedy icon at the end of Season 1. This is a development watch it spread like wildfire and you see the ramifications and Midge. She says the experience of doing a comedic role has excited to step into the skin of a scientist desperately trying been “simultaneously horrifying and extremely rewarding – to survive a space mission gone awry in the Syfy space horror both equally, at the same time” but adds, “It’s a dream I didn’t know I had, to work on a show like this, to play a character “Nightflyers.” like this. In the hourlong series, which premieres Sunday, Dec. 2, the Name: Gretchen Mol “In so many ways, not just to be able to stretch in this 46-year-old Connecticut native stars as Dr. Agatha Matheson, a Birth date: Nov. 8, 1972 brand new direction and stretch some comedic muscles that psychiatrist aboard the Nightflyer, the most advanced spaceship I wasn’t sure I had,” she adds with a laugh, “but also to play Birthplace: Deep River, Conn. such a fully three-dimensional, complicated woman, which of its late-21st century day, who specializes in working with Education: Studied acting and musical theater at the L-1 telepaths, one of whom the rest of the crew resent and shouldn’t be something that is novel but is in a lot of ways.” American Musical and Dramatic Academy and the William distrust. And she gets to walk in the shoes of a stand-up comic, Esper Studio. which is something she says she avoided when preparing for As their mission takes them toward the edge of the solar Family ties: Is the mother of a son and a daughter, the role. system and their sanity, they realize their real enemy might “I just was so afraid that if I tried and likely, inevitably fell 11-year-old Ptolemy and 7-year-old Winter, with husband already be on board – which forced Mol to play someone in flat on my face, I’d be so traumatized that I wouldn’t be able Tod Williams, a filmmaker to go down this journey with this character who’s falling in the throes of abject terror. TV credits include: “Dead Man’s Walk,” “Spin City,” love with stand-up,” Brosnahan explains. “And fortunately the “You don’t necessarily conjure it all, I found, in this way of writing is so brilliant that I didn’t think it was a necessary part working,” Mol explains. “It comes down to simplicity. 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That’s one domino she knocked down that to make them at the expense of a very powerful person who winner Alex Borstein). we have to then deal with. And how can we deal with it?” can crush your career, as neophyte stand-up comic Midge As the grind of doing stand-up wears on Midge, the “Susie, I think is terribly concerned because she knows Maisel finds out at the outset of Season 2 of “The Marvelous pressure to tell her parents Abe and Rose (Tony Shalhoub, what it means,” adds Brosnahan of the potential war brewing Mrs. Maisel” this week. GRETCHEN MOL Marin Hinkle) about her new life in the wake of her with Sophie.