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I knew Jimmy was going to kill the Commodore and that at some point we would reveal that Jimmy and his mother, Gillian, had a back story.ĭEADLINE: That backstory, especially the incest, was shocking. The very broad strokes are to the characters are laid out at the beginning of the season. That was developed in the writer’s room as the season progressed. With Van Alden, I knew eventually the drowning of his partner would come back to haunt him. As Season Two progressed, I realized it would happen then. WINTER: We knew Jimmy would die at Nucky’s hand at some point, but not exactly when it would happen. He’s saying, you are just as capable of treachery and murder, and you need to know who you are dealing with now.ĭEADLINE: Did you have it drawn out way back on Season One that Jimmy would die that way or that Michael Shannon’s Eliot Ness-like Van Alden would shoot an assistant prosecutor in the foot and become a fugitive instead of a crusading crime fighter? The moment after he shoots Jimmy, he makes eye contact with everybody else and they get it. Not only to Jimmy–in the last message that Jimmy would ever get of course–but the people around him who are all capable of putting a bullet in Nucky’s head too. Nucky thought it was a matter of survival for him and he understood he had to send a message. The psychological ramifications haven’t been processed yet. WINTER: People forget Nucky used to be sheriff. What does that say about Nucky’s villainous potential heading into next season? Eventually we had to see Nucky cross that line himself.ĭEADLINE: In the climactic episode, Jimmy described the internal trauma of killing for the first time but when Nucky killed Jimmy, he did not seem upset murdering his surrogate son.
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It was foreshadowed in the pilot w19thhen Jimmy Darmody tells Nucky, you can’t be half a gangster anymore, because there are people willing to kill for this, and that’s why you need a guy like me. After starting with a guy who was a corrupt politician who dabbled in criminal behavior of a relatively minor sort, things had to get darker for him. Based on the research, as prohibition unfolded the game got much darker and if you were going to survive in that world you had to step up your game. Some saw it as an odd choice, but Steve has covered every color in the human spectrum of emotion and there’s nothing this guy can’t do.ĭEADLINE: Did you know then that in Season Two he would evolve into a stone killer?
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I said what about Steve Buscemi and about a week later, Marty called and said, I can’t stop thinking about Steve Buscemi for this. When it came time to cast, Marty Scorsese and I decided it didn’t matter what the real guy looked like because nobody knew him anyway. When I wrote the Boardwalk script I really didn’t have any actor in mind we had the real Nucky in mind, from photographs. He directed three Sopranos episodes for us and I got to know him first on that level.
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WINTER: I didn’t start developing Boardwalk until a little after The Sopranos but I’d been a fan of Steve’s literally from the second I saw him in a movie called In the Soup. DEADLINE: When Steve Buscemi played Tony Soprano’s cousin in The Sopranos, how far into that season did it occur to you he could carry your next show?