"By doing research and reading about the time and reading contemporary reports about New York and how New York grew very fast and how society was stratified, what was astonishing is that if I hadn't known that some reports were actually written in 1881 or 1882, if I didn't know that they were 140 years old, I would have thought they were talking about the current time. So it's something this incredible amassment of riches and wealth in the hands of a few people, it's something that maybe is always prevalent in any culture, but definitely, there were very strong parallels between the current time and The Gilded Age, where there was this very rapid ascent to immeasurable riches. It's just, Bezos, Musk, you name them, it's a similar kind of discrepancy between who has a lot and who doesn't. And so in that sense, it wasn't a stretch, trying to imagine how those individuals lived in the past because there are parallels to draw from in our current time."

Cinematographer Manuel Billeter has worked across a variety of iconic and groundbreaking shows and films including Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Law & Order, Person of Interest, Orange Is The New Black, Lawless, and Alfonso Cuarón’s Y tu mamá también.  Most recently he has been Director of Photography on the HBO Max series The Gilded Age, starring Carrie Coon and Christine Baranski, and Netflix’s Inventing Anna, starring Julia Garner.

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