Anyone who has seen "The Gilded Age" will probably agree that Taissa Farmiga was perfectly cast as Gladys Russell, the young socialite who is kept under lock and key by her domineering mother. Even though the character is around 10 years younger than Farmiga, she more than pulled it off.
But, it turns out, Farmiga could have played another character on the show instead. Apparently, the actress first auditioned to play the role of Marian. But even from her first audition, Farmiga knew that it wasn't the right part for her. "When I was auditioning for it, I had a hard time," she told Collider. "I remember I read once with my husband. I didn't like the tape ... I tried to make the self-tape twice and I wasn't happy with it."
Luckily, the casting directors saw something in her tape for Marian and they asked her to try reading for Gladys. "I was happy to have a second shot with Gladys and that taped in two seconds and I was like, 'Oh, I know this girl. She's so many versions of 16, 17-year-old Taissa,'" Farmiga explained.
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