“My character, and in some ways the show, is less Mussolini and more Machiavelli,” Paul Giamatti said when asked about “Billions” Season 2 during Showtime’s TCA panel presentation for the high-rated drama. And by that, he means the characters will be “less brutal and more strategic” in the upcoming episodes.
“You see vulnerabilities in them,” co-star Damian Lewis added. “These vulnerabilities and frailties become burdensome in trying to win this game.”
The game Lewis refers to is the winner-takes-all throw-down between Chuck Rhodes, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Bobby “Axe” Axelrod, an aggressive hedge fund manager who Rhodes suspects is corrupt. Much of Season 1 focused on the two waging war against each other, as Axe attempted to grow his empire and Rhodes aimed to expose Axe in order to destroy him.
But in Season 2, things are intensifying at work and at home for both men…...
“You see vulnerabilities in them,” co-star Damian Lewis added. “These vulnerabilities and frailties become burdensome in trying to win this game.”
The game Lewis refers to is the winner-takes-all throw-down between Chuck Rhodes, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Bobby “Axe” Axelrod, an aggressive hedge fund manager who Rhodes suspects is corrupt. Much of Season 1 focused on the two waging war against each other, as Axe attempted to grow his empire and Rhodes aimed to expose Axe in order to destroy him.
But in Season 2, things are intensifying at work and at home for both men…...
- 1/10/2017
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
TORONTO -- The Toronto International Film Festival on Monday announced world premieres for Werner Herzog's Rescue Dawn, starring Christian Bale, and Hal Hartley's Parker Posey starrer Fay Grim. Rescue, a drama based on the story of a U.S. navy lieutenant who escaped from a POW camp in Laos during the Vietnam war, will unspool as part of the festival's Masters' sidebar. Also scheduled for the Masters' program is the world premiere of Margarethe von Trotta's latest film, I Am the Other Woman, an erotic thriller starring Armin Mueller-Stahl and Katja Riemann.
TORONTO -- The Toronto International Film Festival on Monday announced world premieres for Werner Herzog's Rescue Dawn, starring Christian Bale, and Hal Hartley's Parker Posey starrer Fay Grim. Rescue, a drama based on the story of a U.S. navy lieutenant who escaped from a POW camp in Laos during the Vietnam war, will unspool as part of the festival's Masters' sidebar. Also scheduled for the Masters' program is the world premiere of Margarethe von Trotta's latest film, I Am the Other Woman, an erotic thriller starring Armin Mueller-Stahl and Katja Riemann.
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