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Behind the Billions

“The Chris Rock Test” Season 5, Episode 2 With Corey Stoll | Behind The Billions

Behind the Billions

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.3641 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Before diving into S5E2, “The Chris Rock Test,” 'Billions' cocreators Brian Koppelman and David Levien discuss some parallels between ‘Billions’ and real-life billionaire behavior as well as how the location manager and prop master truly shined in Season 5's second episode (0:30). Then they talk to Corey Stoll, who plays Michael Prince, about his character, joining an already established show, learning from his castmates, filming at Mohonk Mountain House, and more (36:40). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Brian Cappelman.

0:05.3

And this is David Levine.

0:07.1

And we are here with Behind the Billions.

0:11.2

Behind the Billions.

0:12.2

Seameless, Dee.

0:13.1

We did that seamlessly.

0:15.1

We are the showrunners and co-creators of Billions.

0:17.9

And we'll be here each Sunday night after the show to talk about the episode.

0:23.6

We have the great Corey Stoll coming up at the end who plays Michael Thomas Aquinas, Prince.

0:29.3

And there's a big episode for Prince, D, don't you think?

0:32.7

It is.

0:33.6

It's a heavy episode.

0:35.0

I mean, thinking about where this episode came from, you know,

0:39.9

as we've sort of paid attention to this little mini class of billionaires, I mean, we've

0:46.4

always been fascinated by this idea of like what they call the Davos man, Davos being one of these

0:52.5

sort of insular little get-togethers

0:57.0

for the people who run the world.

0:59.4

And these guys fashioning themselves

1:01.9

as sort of thought leaders, you know.

1:04.4

And there's salt out in the desert of Las Vegas

1:10.2

and then in the world of billions, there's the Mike

1:12.7

named after Mike Prince.

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