“We were taking it back to a kind of first principle nature of storytelling, which is what is the pure lived experience of these characters.”
The most dramatic Shōgun death scene was a painful loss made all the more more effective by its brute quickness.
“Episode nine, in particular, for me, it almost a, this is how you shoot anamorphic. This is how you use an anamorphic lens to tell a story.”
Composer Julia Newman captures the fantastical, sometimes tantalizing and heavy weight of the upper-class hellscape.
“A big part is working really carefully with hair and makeup, because with the right hairdo and the right makeup, we can take something that’s maybe not real designer and can elevate it.”
“Capote gigantic viper, just a stuffed snake that sat on the coffee table right in the middle of the room. I don’t know what it meant to him, but it’s the kind of detail that you can’t not put in there.”
“We always knew that the sun set right behind the mountains in front of Hiro.”
“That was the tall order, I guess, was how we were able to create Truman Capote from scratch.”
Actor and art aficionado Russell Tovey plays a terrifying narcissist in Feud: Capote vs. The Swans.
“I counted almost 40 pieces for Toranaga’s armor. It’s just nonstop. There are so many different layers.”