“I think a lot of people under a certain age really don’t know what those Catskill hotels were and what they represented, especially to Jewish people back in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s. We got to show people Paris in 1959, the Catskills in 1959 and a telethon in 1959,” Palladino said to The Hollywood Reporter. “We’re always aware of showing a world that has disappeared.”
“Half the fun when you’re in New York is to bring back B. Altman, which doesn’t exist anymore, bring the Catskills, which doesn’t exist anymore, bring back the Stage Deli, which doesn’t exist anymore — take those stories that people may have heard about and put visuals to them,” Sherman-Palladino said.
In Season 3 of Mrs. Maisel, they’ll have the chance to recreate the Miami of 60 years ago. On Wednesday, People magazine revealed the first photo from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 3, which shows Midge (Rachel Brosnahan) and her manager Susie (Alex Bornstein) poolside at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami. The duo are in Miami as part of Midge’s tour with musician Shy Baldwin (Leroy McClain), a commitment she made at the end of Season 2.
Opened in 1954, the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel is a famous movie setting, featured in The Bellboy, A Hole in the Head, The Sopranos, Scarface and Goldfinger, where Jill Masterson (Shirley Eaton) died covered in gold. In The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 3, the Fontainebleau Miami Beach has been returned to the pastel glories of the hotel at the tail end of the 1950s.
“Ignorance is always bliss, a little bit, in production,” Palladino said. “If someone had told us exactly how hard this would be, I think it would have given us pause. But because we had no idea — we were just a couple of bumbling idiots walking into this — it all sort of turned out for the best.
“On bad days, I’m like, ‘But you got to shoot in Paris! What do you have to complain about,” Sherman-Palladino said.
But despite the pressure, the new locations suggest The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 3 will be no less ambitious in recreating the past.
