They were more interested in being in the moment and not necessarily knowing what was going to come. What was it like shooting his final scene? We shot the scene with Margaret and Nucky dancing at the Eldorado last.
It was very emotional. The whole crew came down, and we shot it on Stage 5 of Steiner Studios, which had been our stage for five years. Everybody came down late at night, and we watched them dance. It was very poignant. It was a very special moment.
We had a small party afterward in the parking lot that went on for hours. Why did you decide to go with this flashback structure for the final season? We had talked about what the backstory between Nucky and Gillian was, but we felt it was really important to have the emotional weight and resonance it deserved, that we needed to see it.
It gives you so much more insight into who Nucky was and why he became what he became. Seeing him as a little boy and as a young man, and seeing that act of betrayal play out in front of you was so much more powerful.
The challenge was to find actors to play young versions of these characters, and thank God for our brilliant casting director, Meredith Tucker. She brought us incredible actors who could not have been better. She absolutely nailed every one. Yeah, in some ways. He grew up in an abusive household and then at the heels of somebody like the Commodore.
I just had visions of this being in the paper the next day. Richard Harrow Jack Huston had returned from the Great War a shattered man, both on the outside and on the inside, his mangled face rendered via CGI now covered by an equally creepy tin mask. He was an excellent reminder of the horrors that had taken place on the battlefields of Europe only a few years earlier while the rest of the country had moved on.
The other survivors were, justifiably, the three people Nucky had hurt the most: his estranged wife Margaret Thompson Kelly Macdonald , his resentful younger brother Eli Thompson Shea Whigham , and the permanently damaged Gillian Darmody Gretchen Mol. Attorney General Mabel Walker Willebrandt. Like Willebrandt, Randolph had previously been a public defender in California who regularly represented prostitutes. Any one of these people could have had their own series.
Did you ever have any thoughts about that? Note: Winter was a an executive producer and writer on The Sopranos — credited with 25 episodes, more than anyone other than Chase.
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