Interview

Q When you were going through the casting process for this, did you get a lot of questions from actors, especially when it came to what tone you had in mind for this show?
 
A I don’t think I ever had that conversation with the actors. I’m really proud of the writers’ room, and I’m really proud of the cast. I think they’re extraordinary. They all have the facility for giving a very real performance, which sometimes allows for comedy, as well.

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As far as Season 2 goes, the only “spoiler” McKay would share is that Matthew Mcfadyen’s Tom will continue to be uncomfortable with he and Shiv’s (Sarah Snook) open relationship.

“His uncertainty about the open relationship continues,” McKay said. “He just can’t get his head around what it means. […] Every time he sees her, you can tell he’s thinking, ‘Did she just sleep with someone?’ ‘Am I supposed to be sleeping with someone?’ ‘Is this OK?’ ‘Why do I feel crappy?'”

“I think the biggest surprise was Matthew Macfadyen,” he said. “I knew he was good, I’d seen his work, I knew he could be funny, and then he was even better. Right away, that funny thing between him and Braun, where they just gravitated toward each other — every day, I’d have to make myself move on because I was laughing so hard.”

The centerpiece of her character is her very complicated relationship with her husband Tom (Matthew MacFadyen), who works for the Roy empire. Snook says the chemistry that developed between them “weirdly, just kind of happened. Matthew is such a lovely, charming and genuinely good human being that it’s very hard not to get along with him.” When it comes to how these two seemingly mismatched characters are with each other, Snook acknowledges that their relationship is kind of inexplicable but also views it as a strong one and believes that Siobhan does love Tom. “I think she knows he can be a bit of an asshole sometimes and a bully but I think she likes that. He’s probably the person she can be the most vulnerable with because he probably will never leave her. He’s the most stable thing in her life.”

Q.I assume Tom and Shiv live happily after?
A.[Laughs] Their relationship continues to be interesting.

Q.I’m guessing it’s going to be a long time before you run out of disagreements for the characters to have.
A.I think it’s not the sort of show which should go on forever, because there’s a question set up in the title of the show and I think it’s a question you eventually want answered. So, I wouldn’t say that it should go on forever, but we certainly haven’t run out of ideas when we’ve met in the writers’ room so far.