David Costabile: 1/19/16

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

Tv & Film

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2016

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

David Costabile is an actor best known for his roles on Breaking Bad, The Wire, and Lincoln. He stars in Showtime’s latest series, Billions, as Mike “Wags” Wagner, the right hand man to Bobby “Axe” Axelrod. Today, Brian and David discuss the actor’s process and the importance of “assuming your own brilliance.” Plus, David talks about his fanboy’ish encounter with Bryan Cranston, a theatre audition gone terribly wrong, and why he keeps creating rules for himself just to break them. Topics mentioned: Billions Breaking Bad The Wire Tufts University Solitary Man The Moment with Tom McCarthy: 10/27/15 Titanic Shubert Theatre A Chorus Line Spamalot The Mahabharata The Empty Space Caroline, or Change Stripes Heat The Moment with Maggie Siff: 12/1/15 Bloodline People mentioned: David Costabile David Levien Andrew Ross Sorkin Bryan Cranston Peter O’Toole Tom McCarthy James Lapine Mike Nichols Bill Murray Hank Azaria Oliver Platt Antony Sher Tony Kushner Maggie Siff Glenn Kessler This episode of The Moment is brought to you by Showtime’s new series Billions. Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis star in this bold, original drama as two of New York’s most powerful titans locked in an epic battle of egos. And there is no line both men won’t cross to win. Billions—a new series, Sundays at 10pm—only on Showtime. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @BrianKoppelman iTunes: itunes.com/themoment To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, this episode of the moment is brought to you by billions.
0:03.0	I created the show along with David Levine and Andrew Osarkin, and Levine and I are the showrunners.
0:08.0	This show is incredibly important to me.
0:10.0	It's a story that we were dying to tell. Sitting here as I'm talking right now, one year ago today, we started
0:17.0	shooting the pilot. And a year before that, we started writing it. And that's what this is, you know, show so much with what the moment is about
0:25.2	is about how do you continue and press on and take creative risks and we wrote
0:31.2	billions on spec without a deal and every step of the way had to just believe
0:35.6	in the possibility that we could get it across the finish line.
0:38.6	And then to be able to work with these incredible actors and amazing writing staff,
0:43.4	incredible directors, some of whom you've heard talk here.
0:46.3	It's been a dream.
0:47.2	And then the whole thing, the purpose of the entire thing
0:49.8	is then to get people to see it
0:52.1	and to have that bigger conversation with the audience.
0:56.6	I hope you watched episode one which was on this week and is still available on demand
0:59.7	on Showtime and I hope you watch episode two of Billions this Sunday night at 10 p.m. on Showtime.
1:05.0	It's also available on Showtime on demand. Showtime anytime, anywhere else you can get Showtime,
1:10.0	billions is available. Watch it. Let me know what you think of it.
1:13.0	Today the moment is brought to you by billions.
1:16.0	The following podcast contains explicit language. Kostable just asked me who I'm thinking of when I'm talking into this microphone,
1:31.7	whether I have sort of like an ideal listener.
1:33.4	I remember Dave being a kid reading Stephen King, did you read King at all when you were a kid?
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