Gideon Glick Brings a Choreographer’s Vision to Life in ‘Étoile’

Reading early scripts for new ballet drama series “Étoile,” Gideon Glick had a hunch that one of the characters was meant for him.  Show creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino, of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and “Gilmore Girls” fame, had already written the first two episodes when they invited Glick onboard as part of the writers’ room. “I saw the character breakdown and I saw Tobias and I thought, ‘Oh, this feels like me, or at least how they perceived me,’” he adds.  ”And every time they talked about the character, they would gesture to me, but they hadn’t offered me the part.” The show is set in the ballet world of New York and Paris, tracking the personalities that keep the dance companies going from dancers and creatives, to the administrators and benefactors. Glick stars as the genius but quirky choreographer Tobias, who ends up in Paris as part of an international talent “swap” between two ballet companies, fictionalized versions of the American Ballet Theatre and the Paris Opera Ballet. Gideon Glick as Tobias and Charlotte Gainsbourg as Genevíeve in “Étoile.” Glick, describing the Palladinos now as “family,” first connected with the Emmy-winning duo during a pandemic-era Zoom audition for “The Marvelous Mrs.

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