I found this tiny item in The Hollywood Reporter:
[Gabriel] Mann will play Arthur, a wealthy, educated man of privilege who becomes associated with Betty (January Jones).
Upon looking up Mann, I find he was born in 1972 in Middlebury, Vermont (a very patrician college town; he has that look). That makes him the right age for “associated with” to have sexual overtones.
When asked about Season 2, the only thing that January Jones said was that she’d been asked to learn horseback riding, but didn’t know how it would figure in the plot. (Thanks, Roberta, for reminding me.) So, does Betty take riding lessons or take up riding and meet “Arthur”?
Wow.
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Ride 'em!
Definitely the best scoop as per usal on BoK….
hullabaloo, either that or the washing machine's broke.
either that or the washing machine’s broke
Dan, you go me! I LOL'ed right in the office!
I did too. While searching (unsuccessfully) for an Equus joke.
I read that she said specifically she was instructed to read and explore the poem “Ariel” by Sylvia Plath, which is nominally about the author’s horse.
While I’m no Plath expert, my college lit classes remind me that this poem is very layered and allegorical.
Should be interesting.
That would be kinda great, actually.
I think so too, Eme.
Dan, yes, she was told to read Ariel. But Roberta? You there? Wasn’t she also told to learn to ride?
I remember reading that as well, Deb. That she should take horseriding lessons and read Sylvia Plath as well.
I’m here. Eme has it; she was told both.
And I keep thinking… could lead to good dream/fantasy sequences.
Hmmm. The wilderness area where they’re scheduled to shoot on May 30 has a riding trail, and there’s also a riding academy further down the ravine. That place is straight out of the 1960s. I bet they’ll be shooting there, too.
I am so loving this information.
It’s very scoopy. No one else seems to have put together this tiny casting note with the riding information. We’re so cool.
So I wonder if her riding has replaced the therapy? I’m sure Don’s reluctant about letting her do that, too. But hey, a girl’s gotta get her kicks somewhere. And if it isn’t coming from her husband, then maybe a sexy riding instructor…or even just the act of horseback riding itself…
[...] right now, and then we’ll have more later. Remember we were speculating about Betty maybe taking up riding, and maybe having an affair with a riding instructor or horseman or something? Of course you do! [...]