Below, their thoughts on the premiere of the comedys second season.
NATASHA LEGGERO:And we liked the idea of Harriet Tubman as a branding expert.
LINDHOME:We sent her the script, and then we met with her to talk about it.
Credit: Danny Feld
You know, its prettyout there, its definitely not a PC role.
Its not disparaging anyone.
Tubman then encourages the ladies to go ride in a barrel over Niagara Falls for a publicity stunt.
Danny Feld
This woman, she actually made it, but with a serious head injury.
LINDHOME:She said in the press, I wouldnt recommend it.
LEGGERO:We honestly still cant believe how great it looks.
There were definitely some alternate lines that we liked.
What would someone know about more than him?
And so we just thought, he doesnt wear nightcoats, so he might not be up on nightcoats.
[The facts she said] were true.
LINDHOME:We love to draw parallels to modern life.
Theres crashes, and peoples finances go away.
People who arent careful with their money, it goes away.
So we kind of wanted to show it was true back then, its true now.
LEGGERO:And we read about this period in history, the Gilded Age.
And then simultaneously, women started to work at other things, and nobody wanted to be someones servant.
LINDHOME:Dodo may or may not be making a resurgence this season.
We want to keep it mysterious.
Nobody knows where she went, but itll all unfold.
We were like Oh my God!
And then Lauren just went with it.
He memorized it in the makeup chair, the entire monologue fromTaken.
We should actually have that as an extra somewhere, because that was so funny.
LINDHOME:Ill write that down, yeah!
(The first two Hortenses were portrayed by Artemis Pebdani and Lauren Ash.)
LINDHOME:Hortense No.
1 and Hortense No.
2 both got online grid TV shows.
And so we held auditions again and got Hortense No.
And this Hortense is so great!
LINDHOME:Me too, I hope she can stick around.
Another Periodairs Wednesdays at 10 p.m.
ET on Comedy Central.
