Daveed Danticat: "We structured it like a love story. It's that these two guys are smushed together, neither one wants" He says the character of Davie Liddy was damaged goods who wanted to be famous no matter what. But he also had this very modern sense of wanting to prove himself and get his career back. The actor said there were several moments in the show where they made fun of Howard Hunt for being an idiot.
From the verdict in Trump’s sexual assault case to the Santos indictment and the Supreme Court saga, scandal is rife in Washington. Today we turn to the OG: Watergate, as examined in the new HBO series, “White House Plumbers.” Writers and creators Peter Huyck and Alex Gregory and director David Mandel discuss how the show compares to their last collab (“Veep”), trace a line between the blind allegiance to Nixon in the 1970s and the “Big Lie” of 2020 and contemplate what a Trump scandals series may look like 50 years from now would be like (think: Timothée Chalamet as Rudy Giuliani).
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