The Gilded Age season 2 depicts Booker T. Washington, the Tuskegee Institute, and the beginning of HBCUs.
This article contains spoilers forThe Gilded Ageseason 2 episode 5.
Covering the Red Crosss relief work last season has also whet her appetite for traveling beyond the city.
Peggy grew up in the North and never experienced the Jim Crow South.
We immediately knew we had a gem and we just went with it, Warfield says.
This is a character who is forging her own path and breaking new ground.
Despite her grief, shes moving on.
We wanted to put her there to see the difference.
The original location of the Tuskegee Institute is now maintainedby the National Parks Service.
In fact all of the Tuskegee scenes were filmed atOld Bethpage Villageon Long Island, New York.
Peggy didnt even understand what role the South played in her own backstory, Shaw says.
The goal was for the costumes to display a different visual country.
The costume design process for scenes starts between six weeks and two months before shooting.
Fortune decides to intervene and is later chased by a lynch mob.
Shes got to go anyway, to save herself, Warfield says.
This is something that she has to do.
The Gilded Ageairs on HBO and streams on Max at 9 p.m.
ET on Sunday nights.
