Ed Helms

If it allows me to go hella-skiing, then yeah, I'm hella on board.

If it allows me to go hella-skiing, then yeah, I'm hella on board.

If it allows me to go hella-skiing, then yeah, I'm hella on board.

If it allows me to go hella-skiing, then yeah, I'm hella on board.

It is truly a wild moment in American history. The sort of moral panic on one hand, and then there's the anti-German sentiment kind of like flaring up. And then that gives the teetotalers ammunition to... Go after the brewers. Yeah, to go after all these German brewers.

It is truly a wild moment in American history. The sort of moral panic on one hand, and then there's the anti-German sentiment kind of like flaring up. And then that gives the teetotalers ammunition to... Go after the brewers. Yeah, to go after all these German brewers.

So Nucky Thompson is a character that that was played by Steve Buscemi. How close to the real Nucky Johnson was he?

So Nucky Thompson is a character that that was played by Steve Buscemi. How close to the real Nucky Johnson was he?

So I feel like Steve Buscemi's casting was such a stroke of genius for Boardwalk Empire because it is against type and in a way that. You know, can this guy who's who's sort of a slight build, not an intimidating presence and whose face to me just has a sort of kind of warmth and sadness and a sort of tenderness? Can this guy carry a mob show?

So I feel like Steve Buscemi's casting was such a stroke of genius for Boardwalk Empire because it is against type and in a way that. You know, can this guy who's who's sort of a slight build, not an intimidating presence and whose face to me just has a sort of kind of warmth and sadness and a sort of tenderness? Can this guy carry a mob show?

Tell me a little bit about why Steve Buscemi was so perfect for Boardwalk Empire.

Tell me a little bit about why Steve Buscemi was so perfect for Boardwalk Empire.

Yeah, he is. I would imagine, you know, your collaboration as a showrunner with the wardrobe department and the production design department and the props department was so fun on a project like this and so cool. And then, of course, your music career. team, both the score and your needle drops throughout the episodes.

Yeah, he is. I would imagine, you know, your collaboration as a showrunner with the wardrobe department and the production design department and the props department was so fun on a project like this and so cool. And then, of course, your music career. team, both the score and your needle drops throughout the episodes.

What are some things that stood out to you in that research process that were either surprising or especially exciting or fun to think about and write about? And were there things that came up in that process that inspired moments in the show?

What are some things that stood out to you in that research process that were either surprising or especially exciting or fun to think about and write about? And were there things that came up in that process that inspired moments in the show?

I love that. And it just informs all the the actors on the set. It gives them all these these kind of anchors and reference points to latch on to. So most prohibition crime stories center around the male bootleggers, but Boardwalk features a lot of extremely unique and morally gray and enterprising female characters. Margaret Thompson, Gillian Darmody being a couple of standouts.

I love that. And it just informs all the the actors on the set. It gives them all these these kind of anchors and reference points to latch on to. So most prohibition crime stories center around the male bootleggers, but Boardwalk features a lot of extremely unique and morally gray and enterprising female characters. Margaret Thompson, Gillian Darmody being a couple of standouts.

What was the inspiration for those incredible characters?

What was the inspiration for those incredible characters?