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The Importance of Empathy in Succession
We took lots of stuff from the world, tons like visual things and speeches. In episode two, when Logan gives his speech on the floor of ATN that is a Rupert Murdoch thing. We'd watched Gilean Maxwell talking after her father's death. I was very keen for us not to look down on intellectually the characters who have a different ideological viewpoint. But then the opposite of it not being propaganda because you're so kind and empathetic in the writing of the characters there's a risk I guess it looks apologist.
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