MK

Coming to Marta from Poland. Hey guys, thank you for doing this and just congrats on this season. It's amazing. Episode two is actually my favorite. Weirdly. But I want to ask you some more about Mickey and Konrad and what makes them different from all the other showrunners you've worked with. Because I was on your set and just the vibe, the energy, you know, everything was very specific and it's very much reflected in the show. So if you could name or highlight anything specific when it comes to working with them, that would be great.

Max Minghella: Mickey and Konrad are more movie story than anybody in the cast, which is the hilarious thing about Mickey and Konrad. It's very surreal to work with show writers who should be on the cover of Vogue every week. They're incredibly charismatic and magnetic people and have this sort of preternatural talent to them.

It's really funny. I'm back in LA. I haven't been in LA for so long. I've been in UK all year. I came back to LA this week and every time I've left the house, somebody has approached me about Mickey and Konrad. I mean, truly every time they're just like, first of all, they seem to be best friends of everybody on the planet. Everybody approaches me is like, oh, I just spoke to Mickey and Konrad yesterday. So people want to claim friendship with them, right? That's always a sign that they're doing something right. Everybody wants to insist on their proximity to these two people. So I think they're on the up and up and I feel incredibly lucky to have gotten to work with them at this stage in their journey. I don't know what Kit feels.

Kit Harington: Yeah, they're also younger than…

Max: Yeah, it's very strange.

Kit: Like, it's weird. I spent 10 years on Game of Thrones where I had David and Dan, who were at least 15 years older than me, if not more. No, not, more, 20 years old. And they were like mummy and daddy, you know, and I got used to that as a kind of setup. And then I came into Industry where you have a similar setup of two male showrunners and sort of expected them to feel like mummy and daddy, but they're actually younger than me which is bizarre. But they are just the best type of enthusiastic about what they do in their show. They love it. And they want control of it in the best way as well. They orchestrate it. I find my only experience with showrunners is those four people, David, Dan, Mickey and Konrad, really. And they are, I'm very lucky to have work with all four of them.

Mickey and Konrad remind me a lot of their dad (?) in how they orchestrate everything, but not in a kind of over-controlling way, like in a way which encourages everybody to make the best thing. But they are the kind of the sun that everyone orbits around. They always talk in quite dismissive terms about what, like, how they started out in season one and two and the fact they didn't know what the hell they were doing. But I don't believe that for a second. Like, I just, I think they've known what they're doing the whole time. Like, I thought season one and two, and I've said this to people, you know, knew exactly what they were, tonally, in a way that many shows flounder and don't know what they are, whereas they did. And I think that…

Max: They're very, like, they love to be self-critical. Yeah. They love to be self-critical. And they're very, you know, what's interesting, what I would say is that, like, Konrad specifically is very blunt… in a way that I really appreciate. It's sort of that thing of like, you know, if somebody's telling, who knows him is telling the truth, then the compliments go a lot further. The pats on the back go a lot further. But they are unbelievably honest and direct, which maybe comes from not coming from a creative space originally, right? They came from the world of finance originally. And I think there's some stuff that comes with that that's actually really interesting and exciting. Gives them a new perspective on it all, you know.

All right. I think we've got that covered. Thank you.