‘The Gilded Age’: Taissa Farmiga on How Gladys’ Loss Will ‘Cost Her Everything’

[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for The Gilded Age Season 3 Episode 2, “What the Papers Say.”]

Love is costing Gladys Russell everything in The Gilded Age Season 3. Taissa Farmiga‘s character was dealt a heartbreaking blow in her attempt to get engaged to Billy Carlton (Matt Walker) in the June 29 episode of the HBO period drama. With Billy’s failure to meet the moment and stand up for his relationship with the young heiress, he just cleared the path to Bertha Russell’s (Carrie Coon) victory in her fight to marry Gladys off to Hector, Duke of Buckingham (Ben Lamb), who arrived back in New York at the episode’s end. And she didn’t have to do much work to make him fold. Here, Farmiga talks with TV Insider about Gladys’ heartbreak and the looming arrival of the Duke, whom she’s still determined not to marry.