How Edie Falco Became a ‘Powerful’ Prison Warden on ‘Mayor of Kingstown’

Edie Falco leaned into Nina Hobbs’ Texas roots to transform into the Anchor Bay Prison Warden for Mayor of Kingstown season 4. “It felt different playing someone who grew up in Texas then a very east coast, urban environment that I’m more familiar with,” Falco, 62, told Us Weekly exclusively during the Mayor of Kingstown red carpet on Tuesday, October 21. “I think that helped me figure out more about who she is.” Falco joins the Paramount+ show’s star-studded lineup for its fourth season — set to premiere on Sunday, October 26 — and her character is a “pretty powerful” woman with a “huge respo