Rachel Brosnahan on Marveous Mrs. Maisel, Fred Durst, and Colin Firth | Screen Tests | W Magazine

In this Screen Tests interview, Rachel Brosnahan talks about power posing in corsets, stage fright, her ability to handle pigeons, her love for Colin Firth, why she doesn't karaoke much and who her first real kiss was. From "Rachel Brosnahan Channels Beyoncé For the Standup Scenes in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel": From the time when Rachel Brosnahan first showed up on our screens as Midge, the 50's housewife-turned-standup comedian in the Amazon series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, to when she won the Golden Globe in January for her breakthrough performance, the actress has seemed a natural for creator Amy Sherman-Palladino's quick-fire one-liners. Which is why it's a little surprising to hear just how terrified Brosnahan was of her turn to comedy after appearances in deadly serious dramas like House of Cards. Was there an audition for the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel? There was definitely an audition; there were a few of them. The first one was pretty standard. I came in for just a casting director in a small room not completely unlike this one that I'm in now and read a couple of scenes. And then a couple weeks later, I went out to L.A. to read with/for Amy [Sherman-Palladino] and Dan [Palladino] and our L.A. casting director Jeanie Bacharach.x How much do you think the costumes are a part of the character in Mrs. Maisel? The costumes are a huge part. Midge's outer appearance is something she takes an enormous amount of pride in, something that makes her feel good and