Mickey Down

I always said that my favorite genre is Michael Douglas.

Michael Douglas with his ass out.

And his hair up with a suit and doing something shadily sexy.

That's what I love.

It's interesting.

I mean, it's a kind of critique of unchecked capitalism.

It's a critique of the sort of the dark heart of capitalism.

I'm not saying, I don't think capitalism by its very nature is a bad thing.

But I think honestly, when you write a show about finance, in the same way you write a show or a film about war, you have to kind of make the thing feel kind of seductive in the first act.

And that's always kind of what we've done.

I mean, you see any single piece of literature or art about finance, and the first act is always, look how great this is.

And the third act is always like, look how bad this is.

And that's,

You know, sometimes people just ignore the second and third acts.

And that's why you have a lot of, you know, sort of finance meme bros loving American Psycho and Wall Street and not really seeing the sort of the cost of that kind of living.

Look, we left university.

There's only one real reason you go into finance at the age of 21.

And, you know, you can...

In an interview, you would tart it up and you would say, like, you know, I want to see my deals on the front page of the Financial Times and I really care about, you know, macroeconomics, all that stuff.

The real reason you go into finance is because you want to make way more money than your peers when you're 21.