THE GILDED AGE Star and ‘Railroad Daddy’ Morgan Spector for GQ Hype Magazine

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THE GILDED age actor is back as robber baron George Russell (affectionately known as “Railroad Daddy” to his fans). We hung out with Spector on the Upper East Side to talk about THE GILDED AGE’s thrilling third season, subversive masculinity, being a wife guy, and suddenly becoming famous in his 40s.

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Carrie Coon on Morgan Spector: “He’s not afraid of the gender spectrum,” Coon says. “He is at once hypermasculine, and also one of the most in touch with his feminine side I’ve ever met. He’s not afraid to challenge what our preconceptions are about masculinity. He’s just really always complicating the conversation in such a beautiful way.”

On straight guys not bottoming: “Straight guys can’t bottom?” he asks, incredulously. “I mean, people can play with dominance and submission in heterosexual relationships. We’re living in a moment now where we’re exploding ideas of gender. We deconstruct, these things are not fixed…. It’s theater, baby. We’re all playing in the same sandbox in a certain way.”

A few weeks before our interview, Spector was in Spain’s Canary Islands, supporting Hall on a new film she’s making. (“It’s going to be really good,” he says, unabashedly.) “Husbands get a lot of credit when they do just the basic job of husbanding and parenting,” he tells me. “And it’s nice, I appreciate it, but it’s also kind of what you signed up for when you sign up to be a parent. You’ve got to take care of your kid and you’ve got to hold your family together.”

Photographs by Richie Shazam
Styled by Marcus Correa
Grooming by Rheanne White at Tracey Mattingly Agency

[Photo Credit: Richie Shazam for GQ Magazine]

• Marcus Correa
• Morgan Spector
• Rheanne White
• Richie Shazam