Interview: Morgan Spector on the Subversive and Unique Delights of 'The Gilded Age'

Playing a Robber Baron on ‘The Gilded Age’ Has Only Made Morgan Spector More of a Socialist

Photography by Jeremy LiebmanMorgan Spector wears a full look by Celine with a watch by Omega at the Hancock Foundation in New York. Morgan Spector is holding a dibble—a small wooden tool with a pointed crosscut used to press holes in the soil and plant seeds. His 8-year-old daughter made it in woodshop, he shares over Zoom from his home in rural New York. The earthy simplicity of such an object, I’ll soon learn, suits the flannel-ready actor, w…

Interview: Morgan Spector on the Subversive and Unique Delights of 'The Gilded Age'

When you talk to Morgan Spector, everything is on the table. While we were set to discuss his work on The Gilded Age as George Russell, the natural course of things led us in all sorts of directions. Whether it’s his brief film work, including I Don’t Understand You from last year (reviewed here), or politics, he’s open to anything and everything. Moreover, he can speak knowledgeably about it all, so even before the camera was rolling, we were a…