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The Gilded Age Season 4 premieres, features Matt Damon and David Letterman cameos

tvNov 2, 202620223

Matt Damon and David Letterman make a six-second, non-speaking cameo as background actors in the Season 4 premiere of HBO drama The Gilded Age, appearing on a New York street about eight minutes and 33 seconds into the episode. Damon, 56, wore sideburns and a bushy moustache while Letterman, 79, appeared with a full beard; neither has dialogue. The cameo was arranged as part of research for Damon’s forthcoming appearance on Letterman’s Netflix programme My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, which Isabel Richardson said tied into Letterman’s origin story and Damon’s early work as a background actor. Production secured the bit through a line producer connection to the HBO series and sought approvals from executive producer Kate Churchill, creator and showrunner Julian Fellowes, HBO head of drama Francesca Orsi, and CEO Casey Bloys. Churchill said the appearance was filmed on a closed set in a tightly controlled shot to avoid distracting viewers, and Damon was paid as a background performer through his company. Both Churchill and Richardson described the day of filming as playful, with Letterman excited on set and Damon laughing so much he had to hold his moustache in place.

Tom & Lorenzo
@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social

A wedding! A baby! Someone almost dies! Someone has a scandalous assignation! Hot Beard is crazy! Agnes is nonplussed! Oh, we are so BACK. Our recap of THE GILDED AGE season premiere is up: tomandlorenzo.com/2026/11/the-...

355h ago
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@vamospeat.bsky.social

i wanna see the gilded age but just the scenes w the hot beard man and the twink and instead of the actual scenes it’s just them kissing and very sweaty

395h ago
hunter3

so I think that’s on a different website

chris is bobbing for snapples3

there might be something like this on nifty dot org

Human Resources Haldeman
@gonebabygone.bsky.social

Extremely meta for The Gilded Age to have Cynthia Nixon say she “doesn’t know as much as [she] should” about the policies of Grover Cleveland

274h ago
Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew
@amandasmith.bsky.social

I am just really glad The Gilded Age is back

233h ago
Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew10

I really hope Oscar and Scheming Former Maid form a throuple this season.

Wilhelm Scream Queen2

My friend and I are locked in on whatever Clock Kid is going to invent this season.

Mrs. Dingers1

I am so happy it came back to us.

SoCal Librarian1

I was all ready to watch it this afternoon until I realized I had to wait until 6PM PST. It was worth the wait!

Matt vs. the relentlessness of entropy
@mcs-phd.bsky.social

The reason why I love Gilded Age is because so much happens and absolutely nothing happens at the same time.

185h ago
JVG 骨
@jasonv.bsky.social

HBO's the Gilded Age, a show written without outside input by a single incredibly strange 77 year old man from the House of Lords is back, and I couldn't be happier. The show is terrible. I highly recommend it

93h ago
KeithSmithNBA
@keithsmithnba.bsky.social

The Gilded Age is peak TV and I'm glad it's back. One of the only shows I will make time to watch as close to "live" as possible.

104h ago
Eric Ansley Díaz 🏳️‍🌈
@geekboyeric.bsky.social

I’m all in on problematic f@ggot and rich evil beard wife on #GildedAge this season. I wish them all the success I their sham marriage.

92h ago
🍁11.4 ♏️🍁
@zodi777.blacksky.app

In case anyone over here is interested, there is a Black community of #TheGildedAge fans over on IG & Threads at @/wearedagild. I’ll be using the #DaGild hashtag here, but I also recognize there are like 5 of us on Blacksky who watch it. Just sharing for awareness!

Image from @/wearedagild on Threads for the season premiere of The Gilded Age on November 1, 2026
74h ago
The TV Cave
@thetvcave.bsky.social

Marian and Larry did WHAT?! 👀 The gowns are fabulous, the scandals are brewing, and the Russell family is falling apart. The Gilded Age is back, and these rich people are already stressing us out! #TheGildedAge #HBO #MarianAndLarry #TVSky

34h ago
Another Twitter Escapee
@sunandcoffee.blacksky.app

"They ring ten for a girl, and 21 for a boy" may be one of the most depressing line readings I've heard in quíte some time. Because 1886 or 2026, the sentiment remains. #TheGildedAge #DaGild

43h ago
Swara A.S. ☀️🍉🌊🧿
@spiderswarz.bsky.social

If I you just watched #TheGildedAge Season 4 premiere check our our spoiler recap review here @thenerdsofcolor.bsky.social! thenerdsofcolor.org/2026/11/01/t...

44h ago
𝔻𝕒𝕟 🏈🍻💀
@danmynrd.bsky.social

Watching gilded age, great show, but it's always funny when you think about all the Industrial Revolution Upstairs/Downstairs drama, it's happening concurrently with the golden age of the Wild West. Like are fancy men of means in New York talking about the Arizona territory like it's "The Front"

65h ago
Quoting this
día de les muertos10

Not to burst the bubble because I love the show too, but The Wild West was absolutely "The Front" where colonizers were stealing land; putting Native people on reservations and in concentration camps (missions and boarding schools); and mass executions. The government murdered Sitting Bull in 1890.

𝔻𝕒𝕟 🏈🍻💀3

Average Ms Brook plot line: oh no this party is not going as planned. I just learned about gender equality last week. I'm in love with a man? Is that even allowed? BLACK FRIEND?!? HOW ENCHANTING Average Mr Russell plotline:

◥◤Kriston Capps 250
@kristoncapps.bsky.social

just learned that Gilded Age season 4 takes place in 1886 during the FIRST Grover Cleveland administration. The Panic of 1893 is still years away. Inconsolable

53h ago
#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾
@itsthebrandi.bsky.social

What episode of The Gilded Age is about founding Jack & Jill?

55h ago
ynoT (Tony)12

I don't know but I'm an actor and I'm in season 3 episode 3

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