BlackMonday star DonCheadle talks Trump & the Showtime series’ all-too-real dark comedy
. Cheadle plays the coke-snorting, self-destructive broker navigating the stock market crash of October 19, 1987, which of course came to be known as ‘Black Monday’. Now in its second season, Cheadle discusses how the series reflects the current landscape, and how the global pandemic and America’s civil unrest will affect the industry going forward.
So, wherever there’s a way to shoot an angle, wherever there’s an opportunity to get over on something, people are going to be looking for it, and that’s a business particularly designed to allow for it because the upside is so huge. It’s worth it. If the game was not going to be that big, it wouldn’t be worth going for that huge risk, but you stand to make an ungodly amount of money if you cheat the right way… You pay the right people off and get away with it.
The forces that didn’t want the change to happen in the first place don’t sleep. They’re not kicking back. And they’re like, “Okay, well, how are we going to come out of this still running s**t?” That’s always the challenge in these moments: not to let that energy abate, not to go back to sleep.Nicole Wilder/SHOWTIME: I love the distance that the period piece gives us, which allows us to look through a particular lens and see how far we’ve come, and how far we have not come.
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