Michael Zegen Talks the Latest Season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Mara Webster is joined by the Marvelous Mrs.Maisel's Michael Zegan to talk about the new season.

Michael Zegan talks about how he leaned into being the villain in the pilot but the more the writers got to know him as a person as a "good guy" they started to write in those aspects of Zegan into the character.

Zegan loves the evolution of Joel from when audiences first met him until now. To him, Joel is the most grounded character in this "heightened reality" on the show. He prefers not to know where his character’s storylines are going ahead of time and prefers to wait for the scripts to experience it in real time.

With all the scenes which are one-shots in the series, he compares a lot of the experience of working on the show to being similar to theater. He remembers one scene where he is at a baseball field with Archie hitting baseballs and how putting together those sequences it feels like a "collaborative piece of art."

-Jillian Chilingerian

Q&A on the Amazon Prime series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel with actor Michael Zegan. Moderated by Mara Webster, In Creative Company.

It's the late 1950s and Miriam "Midge" Maisel has everything she has ever wanted -- the perfect husband, two kids and an elegant apartment on New York's Upper West Side. Her seemingly idyllic life takes a surprising turn when she discovers a hidden talent she didn't previously know she had -- stand-up comedy. This revelation changes her life forever as she begins a journey that takes her from her comfortable life on the Upper West Side through the cafes and nightclubs of Greenwich Village as she makes her way through the city's comedy industry on a path that could ultimately lead her to a spot on the "Tonight Show" couch. The series was created by Amy Sherman-Palladino ("Gilmore Girls").