"The Limitless Sh*t," Season 5, Episode 7 With David Costabile

Behind the Billions

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4.3 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Before getting into "The Limitless Sh*t," Episode 7 of 'Billions' Season 5, cocreators Brian Koppelman and David Levien discuss the concept of high-end mental-performance-enhancing drugs; the difficult editing required to pivot into a midseason finale; crew superstars, including the line producer, key grip, and gaffer; obscure references; guest cast; and more (0:05). They next speak with actor-director David Costabile, who plays Mike Wagner, about directing as well as acting in Episode 7, figuring out who Wagner is as a character, old-school NYSE traders, and more (31:05) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Brian Coppulman.
0:06.0	And this is David Levine.
0:08.6	This is behind the billions for episode 5070 mid-season finale.
0:12.8	Our special guest, and hang in because our special guest is David Costable, Wags, who directed this episode.
0:19.2	Didn't he kick ass, Dave?
0:20.9	He really did.
0:21.9	I mean, we could circle back to him, you know, in the directing portion, but just right
0:26.9	off the top, he showed up so prepared.
0:29.7	He had just mapped it all out and sort of left nothing to chance, which is a great way to go
0:35.2	about it, especially when you're doing it for the first time.
0:38.6	And it's the third episode that the two of us wrote with Emily Hornsby, who just contributed
0:44.1	a tremendous amount to the episode and to the entire season. And so one more shout out to Hornsby,
0:50.3	who started as our assistant and worked her way up and is now just a major writer on
0:55.9	the show, just, just, and it's going to have a long career and hopefully someday we'll hire us.
1:01.0	I agree with all that, especially the last part. And she's such a great organizer, you know,
1:07.1	like when ideas are flying around, it's like they all get apprehended by her
1:13.7	and sort of slammed into shape in a way
1:17.7	that we can use it and we don't lose it.
1:19.8	And then when we divide up the scene,
1:22.3	she's totally proficient at executing her scenes.
1:25.6	She really, I mean, you know, for somebody at the beginning of their writing career,
1:30.9	she just really needs so little rewriting compared to even season players.
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