"Opportunity Zone," Season 5, Episode 4, With Maggie Siff | Behind the Billions

Behind the Billions

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4.3 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Before diving into S5E4, "Opportunity Zone," 'Billions' cocreators Brian Koppelman and David Levien discuss the challenges of filming the opening scene of Episode 4, having Daymond John of "Shark Tank" on the show and the insight he provided, Dominique Wilkins set stories, listener questions, obscure references, and more (0:45). Then they talk with actress Maggie Siff about her coaching scene with Frank Grillo's character, Nico Tanner, auditioning for the part of Wendy Rhodes, the toughest scenes to play as Wendy, and more (35:23). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network. This week, the Ringer is launching a new podcast
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0:11.3	companies, celebrities, and trends. Season one, hosted by our own Alyssa Boresnack, takes you
0:16.7	through this spectacular journey of HQ trivia, the once $100 million industry altering
0:22.1	company turned disaster. Alyssa interviewed dozens of former employees, investors, journalists,
0:28.4	and fans bringing you the behind-the-scenes story of how HQ crumbled from within.
0:33.7	Subscribe to Boom-Bust HQ Trivia and check out the first two episodes out now on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:45.2	Hey everybody. Welcome to episode four of Behind the Billions. I'm Brian Cappellman. And this is David Levine.
0:52.4	We're the showrunners and co-creators of billions.
0:55.7	And we're going to talk about the show for a while.
0:57.6	And then we are going to have Maggie Siff, the great legendary Maggie Siff, who plays Wendy
1:02.3	Rhodes on the show.
1:03.4	She'll be on and talk to us toward the end of the podcast.
1:06.6	All right, Dave, let's get into it.
1:07.6	Man, episode four, Dave, rewatching it. This is actually such a fun
1:11.3	good episode and sets up so much shit going forward. Yeah, man, opportunity zone. And this is our
1:17.8	opportunity zone to talk about it, Brian. Whoa. I think you might have to take this podcast
1:24.0	yourself from there. That's a lot to handle coming from you.
1:27.5	How much coffee did you have today, DJ? Just a little. Yeah. Just a little. Uh-huh.
1:34.7	Well, it doesn't necessarily, it doesn't necessarily seem like it. But yes, Opportunity Zone.
1:40.7	Well, it was great. A lot of confluence of great stuff actually in this episode. And I don't know,
1:46.9	do you have some stuff? Let's let how do you want to start? What do you want to talk about first?
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