Terence Winter
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107 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Terence Winter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He said, I can't stop thinking about Steve for this. And I said, yeah, me too. I said, isn't that crazy? He says, yeah, yeah. And it's funny, even Steve, when I called him, he knew he was in the running. And when I called him to tell him he got the role, I said, Steve, you know, we're really excited. We want to offer you this role.
And he said, hey, look, you know, it was really just an honor to be considered. And I said, Steve, No, we're giving you the role. And he's like, what? Because I've been preparing myself for two weeks to not get this. I didn't even hear you. I didn't even let that register. I said, yeah, no, you got it. We're doing this. And he's like, holy shit. Oh, wow.
And then, of course, you know, he went on, you know, I think he won the Screen Actors Guild a couple of times in a row and Emmy nominations. And, you know, people just loved him. He totally sold it and pulled it off. Obviously, he's Steve Buscemi.
I loved all the wardrobe stuff, the hair stuff. One of the things I loved was a little detail that in somewhere in 1916, the Gillette company invented the safety razor. Up until that point, men shaved themselves with a straight razor. So facial hair was a big thing. So a lot of guys had beards and mutton chops and all these crazy, everybody had facial hair up until 1917.
Suddenly that was the safety razor came out. So young people, started looking at facial hair as, oh, yeah, that's your dad. That's your grandpa. So we somewhere around season two, I would start seeing young people with mustaches in the crowd of extras or on the show. And I mentioned it to our hair person a few times. And I mentioned it to our extras casting person.
I said, do not send me any young men with facial hair. And it kept popping up and it started to drive me crazy. So I actually got the yearbook from Princeton University of 1922. And I went into the hair department and I said, find me one man in this book with facial hair. And there was not one college student that had a mustache or a beard in 1922.
I said, that's the level of accuracy we need to have here. And they did. I had the A-plus team of every department head, hair, makeup, wardrobe, music. It shows. Production design, just crazy details. Yeah, you can tell. You know, like wardrobe is like, you know, what drives me crazy, if you see a show set in 1920, everybody's dressed like it's 1920.
You know, I don't know about you, but I have, you know, I have guest jeans from the 90s probably that I still have. Actually, my wife has called me on shit like that a couple of times. Like, you've got to, you know, you've got to get rid of it. So not everybody dresses like it's 2024. Most people don't.
You know, if you're really hip and maybe you're in New York or L.A., maybe you do, but you sure don't. And if you're a working class guy in Atlantic City, you dress like it's 1893. Yeah. You know, so I needed we needed a smattering of that. And everybody took such pride in it, too. I remember even once a big debate about a chain link fence.
You know, I didn't even bring it up, but a production designer, he said, you know, we had a chain link fence somewhere. And he said, before you say anything, yes, they had chain link fences in 1920. They were invented in 1905. I was like, OK. Take it easy. He goes, I didn't know myself and I had to check this out. But yeah, they had chain link fences back then. So yeah, like stuff like that.
In the book Boardwalk Empire, Nelson Johnson fictionalized a meeting between the real Nucky and a woman from the neighborhood who came to ask to get her husband a job. And he said, this is the kind of thing Nucky would do. You know, people worked in the hotel business in the summer months. It was great. But during the winter, people were out of work.
And if your husband, you know, drank and didn't have money, you know, you were going without food. So He talked about a little fictional encounter between a neighborhood woman, Nucky, and Nucky would give her $50 to tide her over for the month, whatever. And I said, that's interesting. That's an interesting relationship. I wonder who that is. Who is that woman?
And then I, you know, I just took it from there. Like, OK, what if what if he's interested romantically and what if her husband is a creep and he beats her up and Nucky gets rid of him? And where does that go? So that became Margaret. Jillian Darmody just came. You know, I knew Jimmy Darmody was coming home from World War One.
And this was, again, one of those happy or not happy accidents of prohibition. World War I ended and you had a lot of disenfranchised soldiers coming home after horrific experiences overseas. And I think most Americans, even to this day, have no idea how incredibly brutal World War I was. Trench warfare and just absolutely just horrific. Guys,
living up to their up to their waist in filth and rat infested water and, you know, just shooting at each other. And for no they didn't know why they were there, but it was really horrible. So a lot of these guys came home and chemical warfare. Oh, chemical. Yeah, absolutely.
And, you know, and a lot of guys came home in our character on the show, Richard Harrow, who is the guy with the half face and the mask, you know, played by Jack Houston. And That was the first time that, you know, battlefield medicine got to the point where you could keep people alive. And well, because it was trench warfare, there were so many then inordinate amount of facial injuries.
Guys would poke their heads up from a trench and boom, get half of their face blown off. Normally, you know, 20 years earlier, you're dead. But now battlefield medicine got to the point where you could keep those people alive. So those guys are coming home alive. So thousands of guys are coming home with facial injuries, literally like half their face blown off or your jaw blown off.
And then they had to get into society. So there was an artist in New England, a woman who was a sculptor, who thought, I wonder if I could do like a half mask to match their face. So these guys could at least go out in public, go out at night and just go. And that's where that character came from. But again, it was just these little details in the research.
Yeah. Yeah. Who fascinating character.
Yeah. I mean, the one thing I loved is that when Prohibition ended, she went to work for a wine company. It's like and even like she wasn't averse to having a drink herself. But it's like once she became like, OK, you know, I'm doing this. She was really staunchly trying to enforce those laws. And of course, her bosses were just unbelievably corrupt.
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