The Gilded Age is back for season 4 with all the amazing costumes, love stories, and high society scheming that viewers have come to expect from the HBO series. And if you're a Peggy fan—and really, how could you not be?—she has a lot going on this time around, too, from her engagement to Dr. Kirkland (Jordan Donica) to becoming a published author.

Peggy has certainly evolved from her time as Agnes van Rhijn's (Christine Baranski) secretary, and that's thanks in large part to the actor behind her, Denée Benton. Not only does Benton make Peggy such a lovable character while playing her, but she also influenced just how big Peggy's storylines could—and should —be in conversations behind the scenes.

"Even from the moment I got the audition sides in 2019, I was like, 'Oh, this is what it was all leading towards.' I've been in corsets on stage from Great Comet to Hamilton ," the actor says on the latest episode of the "Nice Talk" podcast.…