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“In a traditionally meh field, HBO’s late-May entry ‘Mountainhead’ feels like a front-runner on pedigree alone: written and directed by ‘Succession’s’ Jesse Armstrong, about a gathering of toxic tech titans including Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Ramy Youssef and Cory Michael Smith.

As first-time creators of a TV show for HBO, we made good on Bill’s words in the most literal sense: We knew nothing.

On a break from filming Season 4 of HBO’s bruising workplace drama, the actor opens up about Yasmin’s fight with Harper, thinking of the character as a ‘fortress’ and more.

The brilliant creative minds of our department heads, who use all their ingenuity to make a show that operates on a fraction of the budget of most streaming-era shows look like an HBO Sunday night event.

When we first pitched the show to Casey Bloys and the creative team at HBO, we said it would be “glacially slow, with no big bang theory of dramatics.”