Alex Borstein and Rachel Brosnahan take us behind the scenes of the last season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, premiering April 14 on Prime Video.

There’s a Los Angeles restaurant located on Sunset Boulevard called Horses. It’s so white-hot popular that, per The New York Times, its waiting list on a random Thursday night last summer was a whopping 1,784 names long. Regular patrons include Beyoncé and Jay-Z.

Please note this is also the spot where Rachel Brosnahan and Alex Borstein recently dined together to mark a special occasion. The actresses, you see, had just wrapped their Amazon Studios series, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Now, over Caesar salads and other dishes, they reminisced about an incredible six-year ride that included highs (matching Emmy wins), lows (a pandemic-induced hiatus) and everything in between. “We got a little nostalgic,” Brosnahan told Parade. “We talked work and life and just how crazy it was that we closed this chapter together.”

When it all began in early 2017, the two didn’t realize their work would prove to be such a cultural force and critical darling. A sparkling, lightning-fast comedy set in the 1950s and ‘60s, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel chronicles Miriam “Midge” Maisel (Brosnahan), a prototypical Jewish New York City housewife and mother who leaves her cheating husband and embarks on a most unconventional stand-up comedy career. She gets there with the help of her straight-shooting manager, Susie Myerson (Borstein). Though Midge has been at odds with her family, ex-in-laws and fellow comics throughout the journey, the pair have never left each other’s sides.

“It’s very much been a dance,” Borstein says. “In each season, one of us leads and one of us follows. I think it’s cool that Susie was the one who spotted Midge in a nightclub and said, ‘I believe in you.’ Then she’s constantly being taught that Midge was seeing a much bigger picture in her head.” Seconds Brosnahan, “They are each other’s ride or die. They’re each other’s first phone call. They trust and believe in each other’s abilities to achieve their dreams.”

Viewers last saw Midge exiting Carnegie Hall in a blizzard and reinvigorated to chase her ambitions. For fear of spoilers, Borstein and Brosnahan are mum about what goes down in their fifth and final go-round (premiering April 14 on Prime Video). Brosnahan won’t even confirm if the pair end their narrative with a pretty crowd-pleasing bow. All she’ll say is this: “Fans will see plenty of the usual shenanigans, miscommunications and divisions—and then linking arms and lighting the world on fire together.”
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The ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ star joined Amy Sherman-Palladino, Daniel Palladino and her castmates for a PaleyFest event to discuss the fifth and final season of the Prime Video series that changed her life.

“My life changed when Rachel Brosnahan walked into it. I will never be the same.”

That’s how The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel creator Amy Sherman-Palladino closed a farewell letter distributed on Tuesday in advance of the upcoming launch of the fifth and final season of her Emmy Award-winning Prime Video series on April 14. Later that day, Sherman-Palladino joined Maisel collaborator and husband, Daniel Palladino, and castmembers for a special PaleyFest event at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre. Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter on the red carpet, Sherman-Palladino took a minute to remember that moment.

“We were reading so many people and then Jeanie Bacharach, who helped cast the pilot, said there was a girl who had nothing on her résumé that would lead you to believe she could do this — she had done no comedy whatsoever,” Sherman-Palladino explained. “But Jeanie said, ‘I just feel it in my guts that Rachel Brosnahan can do this.’ We looked at her résumé — we knew her from House of Cards as the girl they tied up and threw in a ditch — and asked, ‘That’s the girl? Like, she’s going to be hilarious?’ They said, ‘Yes, just trust us.’ So, we did, and Rachel came in. She was the first girl who took that microphone and leaned into it. I immediately said, ‘That’s the girl. Wow. That’s the girl.’ She walked in and walked out and that was it.”

With that, Brosnahan landed the role as Miriam “Midge” Maisel, a woman who discovers a talent and passion for stand-up after her husband leaves her and their children. Brosnahan’s life changed, too, and she’ll never be the same after having had the opportunity to play Midge over these five seasons, a role that has brought her critical acclaim and nearly every piece of hardware Hollywood has to offer, from an Emmy to multiple SAG and Golden Globe awards.

Brosnahan was present on Tuesday night as she joined the Palladinos and castmates Alex Borstein, Tony Shalhoub, Caroline Aaron and Michael Zegen for the panel that was moderated by THR contributing editor Stacey Wilson Hunt. The actress made it nearly to the end of the press line but it wasn’t until she shared a few minutes with THR that she broke down in tears trying to explain what Maisel means to her.
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