Original subtitles

My name is Anastasia Griffith and I play Elizabeth Haverford.

Elizabeth Haverford is a well-to-do woman...

...who was brought up in London. She married an older man.

Um, I don't think it was out of love. It was an escape act.

She needed to get out of England. And she finds herself on Fifth Avenue...

...where they're all emulating that same stifling British society.

And she's really not finding the space and the freedom that she wants.

She is quite a multidimensional character.

She's got a lot of modern, very liberal views for a woman of that time.

She really does not wanna be submissive.

Robert, I hope you're aware by now that I am not some dull-witted debutante.

She's smart. She doesn't just speak to be heard.

She speaks because she has something to say.

Winnie, do you know how lucky you are to have wed a woman not only politically astute...

-...but brilliantly articulate as well? -That is why I imported her from London.

Well, Elizabeth Haverford is a complicated thing for Cormorant...

...because she's the complete polar opposite to Eva.

-Mrs. Haverford. -Miss Heisenberg, yes?

She is a smart cookie. And she's going to make sure...

...that what she wants to have happen happens...

...and she will not stop until those things happen.

That'd be a very bad move.

- I don't really know how to play the game. -Well, I'll teach you.

That's what Elizabeth Haverford represents, is this new wave of women.

This new wave of freedom.

That's what's so refreshing about her...

...Is everyone else is thinking things out so much in her world...

...and she really doesn't care that much what society thinks.

You may show yourselves out once the performance is over.

And then, please, never call again.