Daniel Bruhl had some help in preparing for his return as psychiatrist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler in Season 2 of “The Alienist.” “Being married to a real ‘alienist’ made my whole relationship even better,” says Bruhl, 42, using the term for psychiatrists in the late 19th century. “I learned so much from my wife’s [Felicitas Rombold] …
Marcia Gay Harden had some interpretive freedom regarding Mathilde, the strong-willed innkeeper she plays in “Barkskins,” Nat Geo’s new historical drama set in 1690s New France. The Monday-night series, co-starring David Thewlis (“Big Mouth,” “Fargo”), is based on Annie Proulx’s 2016 novel and is set in Wobik, a small settlement in what’s now the Canadian …