So yells Robert Spearing , repeatedly, after being goaded to do so by his boss, Eric , who’s nursing a cocaine hangover while his employee nurses something akin to a broken heart.
AVC: Robert looks so confident when Nicole answers the door the night before, very different than he did in season one, when he was wide-eyed and finding his bearings. But that next morning, he shifts back. And it’s almost like the show is underlining the idea that, sure, you can mature and change, but you also can’t. There’s a reason he keeps going back to her as much as he thinks he’s figured out this sort of game he’s in.I mean, I certainly do look different in the first season.
AVC: In episode two, your characters literally fight in a kids’ playroom, which is quite the metaphor, and Robert beats Henry with a cute stuffed toy. What was filming that scene like?It was bizarre. That was like the day after I met Kit. I’d known him for about 24 hours at that point. And it came straight off the back of a very important confrontational scene, which plays chronologically in the episode, and that was the way we shot it.
AVC: Rob also has a big dramatic scene with Eric in episode one, when he makes Rob repeat, “I’m a man, and I’m relentless” to sort of snap him out of his breakdown. It’s an intense interaction. What was it like working on that?It was a great lesson for me. Working with Ken, genuinely, is an education. I will shout this from the rooftops as much as I can: I think he’s, like, the most underrated actor in America. He’s the closest thing I’ve had to sort of working with a genius, I think.