When Christine Baranski’s character on “The Gilded Age” looks out her window at the mansion across the street, she sees the equivalent of a Trump casino.
“She’s absolutely appalled by what money is going to do to her world,” Ms. Baranski said. “It was just wretched excess. But it was a glorious time that celebrated the new American aristocracy.”
Attending the Met Gala for the first time in her 50-year career, Ms. Baranski expected to see some parallels between that “age of rampant capitalism” and now — but from a slight distance.
“I’m wearing big Thom Browne sunglasses so I can ogle people without them knowing I’m looking at them,” the actress
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