Morgan Spector Narrates Rich New Yorkers in Mamdani Ad

Morgan Spector, who plays extreme capitalist and oil baron George Russell on HBO’s The Gilded Age , is ironically an avowed socialist. Until now, he’s always had fun contrasting, but not combining, the two. “If I were to bring a critique of the character into the performance, that would make the performance less interesting,” he told Rolling Stone . “You have to surrender to the values of the character to fully play them.” Now, he’s using his wealth of experience to support his own political ends. The actor filmed a new commercial for Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign in which he, while dressed as Mr. Russell, reads an August 30 New York Times article about how the rich in the Hamptons are terrified following Mamdani’s primary win against Andrew Cuomo. They’re hosting elite Cuo