{"id":33518,"date":"2025-07-30T22:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T22:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/33518\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T22:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T22:48:11","slug":"christina-hendricks-creators-on-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/33518\/","title":{"rendered":"Christina Hendricks & Creators On Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for Episode 7 of Season 2 of The Buccaneers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tJust as there are many elaborate weddings in Apple TV+<\/a>\u2019s The Buccaneers, Season 2 has made way for some equally complex divorce proceedings, culminating in a court battle between Patricia \u201cPatti\u201d St. George and her unfaithful husband Colonel Tracy St. George in Episode 7.<\/p>\n

\n\tDivorce during The Gilded Age, the period in which the show is set was only given permission on the grounds that there was adultery, and even then, there had to be evidence. HBO\u2019s The Gilded Age series tackles the same thing in Season 3, which is currently rolling out.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe did a lot of research about how women had to prove that an infidelity had happened. They couldn\u2019t just say it, they had to prove it. In New York at the time, people would even hire people to come in and say that they\u2019d slept with their husband just in order to get the evidence required,\u201d executive producer Beth Willis told Deadline. \u201cSo it was incredibly difficult, and the burden was absolutely on the wife. We\u2019d thought that really reflected modern-day rape trials or abuse trials.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWillis also praised creator and executive producer Katherine Jakeways for her writing on the penultimate episode, titled \u201cAll Rise,\u201d in which Patti fights an uphill battle of proving her husband cheated on her while being made to feel shame herself and describe how she tried to satisfy him in the bedroom.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cKatherine rose to the challenge of getting under the skin of that and what that kind of humiliation would feel like for Mrs. St. \u00a0George standing up there, doing something that, on paper, feels really straightforward and clear to her,\u201d Willis added. \u201cWhich is [saying], \u2018I\u2019ve had enough, I want to move on with my life,\u2019 but [realizing] how hard it is to actually get permission to move on with your life. Christina Hendricks<\/a>\u2019 performance in that episode is phenomenal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHendricks finds Patti\u2019s decision to demand a divorce after being unhappy in her marriage to Tracy \u201cfueled by wanting the best for her daughters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt still probably originally comes out of being a symbol of something to show that she is acknowledging the pain that it caused with [Nell], and the pain that it could have caused between Nan and Jinny, but also being given the strength by watching them make choices and thinking, if I\u2019m going to be the woman that I say, I\u2019ve been to them and support them all along, I have to give them something to look up to,\u201d the Mad Men actress said. \u201cSo she still goes about it as sort of an offering, but eventually [she] is going to have to internalize that and think about what that really means for her and what her life is going to look like. She knows that it has to be done, but she\u2019s still terrified.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tL-R: Corey Johnson as Mr. McArthur and Adam James as Colonel Tracy St. George<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tApple TV+<\/p>\n

\n\tTracy\u2019s lawyer Mr. McCarthy (Corey Johnson) does not make it easy on Patti, shaming her by asking for explicit details and scaring her witnesses out of taking the stand to declare that they were intimate with Mr. St. George.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe detail that she\u2019s having to go into, like Beth says about it feeling like a modern rape trial, where she\u2019s being asked for details of her sex life, the balance of that was quite tricky to get right in terms of how much she talks about,\u201d Jakeways said. \u201cBut even having to give any detail of your sex life in those humiliating circumstances in front of a room full of strangers and your daughter and your family, she\u2019s so good in that scene, Christina. We\u2019re so proud of that episode and those scenes. And the lawyers are brilliant in those scenes as well. Corey, who played the main lawyer, the cross examiner, he was so good.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLeighton Meester<\/a>\u2019s Eleanor \u201cNell\u201d Brooks, sister to Patti, complicates the process because at first, she just sits in the crowd to support her sister, but then Nan (Kristine Fr\u00f8seth) demands that Nell come clean, reveal herself as Nan\u2019s biological mother<\/a> and simultaneously confirm that Nan was a product of one of Tracy\u2019s affairs. Nell risks her unborn child, her relationship with Arthur (Anthony Welsh) and her reputation to reveal that she slept with Tracy, but her ability to provide physical evidence \u2014 letters detailing Tracy\u2019s correspondence with her, receipts and checks \u2014 helped clinch Patti the victory to be able to divorce her husband.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tLeighton Meester as Nell in \u2018The Buccaneers\u2019 Season 2<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tApple TV+<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFor my character, it\u2019s more symbolic in terms of, taking the next step forward in so many ways. I cannot speak for Mrs. St George, but I do think that, from my point of view, their marriage was was never equal, and even though my actions highlighted that more than anything, I think I also desperately want to help Patti free herself from her current situation that she\u2019s found herself in for so so long,\u201d Meester told Deadline. \u201cAnd even though I\u2019ve been in my own form of secrecy, and pain there is almost a freedom to having made the choices that Nell made. Patti was left with all the responsibility, so I could see how Nell wants to help her ultimately, and take her side in a situation that\u2019s otherwise very dire, and in a time where the man has the last word, [Patti] has somewhere to go with Nell.\u201d<\/p>\n

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