In a new interview with Deadline, actress Christine Baranski provides some new details about the upcoming season of Nine Perfect Strangers, including some info about Annie Murphy’s role!

DEADLINE: I know you recently wrapped Season 2 of Nine Perfect Strangers, which is so exciting. You’re playing Victoria. What can you tell me about her?

BARANSKI: Well, she’s a woman with a very big secret. She arrives in her Wagner ski outfit, but she’s using a cane. And she meets her daughter, her estranged daughter, and they’re meant to come to this famous European sanitarium up in the Austrian Alps to work out their issues.

DEADLINE: Annie Murphy plays your estranged daughter, right?

BARANSKI: It’s Annie Murphy, yes. She’s divine. She’s my daughter. And Victoria’s carrying a very big secret that she’s hiding from her daughter, but it’s an extremely strained relationship that does get worked out. We just had a marvelous time. We were based in Munich, and it’s Mark Strong, Murray Bartlett and King Princess, the rock star who, I’m going to the theater with tonight. She’s my new young best friend. There are so many great people [in the show]. And Nicole is playing a role that is so perfect for her because she’s so mysterious, and enigmatic, and statuesque, and beautiful. And it’s a beautiful location. So, I absolutely loved doing it on so many levels. It went from January into June. It was a long shoot. It was culturally such a rich experience, and creatively such a rich experience.

DEADLINE: I am hoping we’ll see Melissa McCarthy come back…

BARANSKI: I can only say that every year there are nine different strangers that the show is predicated on the Masha character bringing together different people in a different location…

DEADLINE: I see. That’s your hint…

BARANSKI: Yes. That’s the way the show is structured.

DEADLINE: I know that Nicole had somewhat stayed in character as Masha while shooting Season 1, keeping the accent. Did she do that in Season 2, and if she did, how did that lend itself to your experience?

BARANSKI: Oh, yes. She definitely did. I think Victoria is someone who has stayed at that sanitarium when her marriages were breaking up, but she’s one of those ladies with a history of failed marriages, and this trauma that happened with my first husband that my daughter and I lived through, which is why we’re there to work through that trauma. But the Masha character is the same. I mean, that accent that she has, and the look of it. I mean, she has different hair. Her hair is fantastic. Her whole look is fantastic, but it is that character bringing together a different group of people.

Source: Deadline