Collider: How has the experience of working on Mob City been? When you work on a project like that, do the wardrobe and the great sets really help you feel transported to a different time period?
Iddo Goldberg: Oh, my god, it was amazing! I actually had my birthday on set, which was cool. It was one of those days that they were doing little pick-ups, so there was a lot of waiting around. So, my wife and my manager surprised me and came to my dressing room with cupcakes. I was like, “I don’t know what you guys are going to see today. It’s going to be a bit boring. Let’s go get a coffee.” I completely forget that they were doing this scene where a major character was getting killed, and it all happens in this bedroom. The bedroom was just a square block in the center of this huge soundstage, and it had this warm light coming from it while the whole soundstage was black and dark, and we walked on and there was this character with loads of bullet holes, just bleeding. You get to see all these really cool things on this job. And then, Frank Darabont is at the fucking monitor and you’re like, “This is insanely cool!” I had a great time on that job.
Collider: Who are you playing on the show?
Iddo Goldberg: I play a character called Leslie Shermer, who is a crash driver for Bugsy Siegel’s crew. He’s someone who has a crazy glint in his eyes and rats crawling in his head. He’s completely rabid, and I think he’s been not quite the main guy throughout his whole life. Something happens during these six episodes that makes him take a huge risk. He basically sees an opportunity to blackmail someone, and he goes for it. He won’t stop for any reason, and he basically terrorizes Alexa Davalos’ character, throughout the whole season.
Collider: It’s definitely a show with a lot of attention and interest. What was your reaction to the script, when you first read it?
Iddo Goldberg: The book that it’s based on is fantastic and really insightful, and Frank Darabont’s writing is insane. You read so many scripts and, a lot of the time, they take awhile to read, but I flew through these quick. His writing is just fantastic. What’s great about it for everyone involved is that I really feel like they’ve only just scratched the surface. There’s so much more to show. There are so many stories. It’s such a great period. I’m not sure where it would go, straight after these six episodes, but I’m sure it’s going to be somewhere really exciting, dangerous and violent. It’s really, really violent. There are hardly any women in it. It’s a lot of angry, greedy, deceitful men.
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