Host Roger Bennett is joined by Emmy nominee Matthew Macfadyen, who plays Tom Wambsgans, the brown-nosed king of beta-maleness and cuckold crown prince of doomed love. Matthews talks transforming his velvety British voice into Tom's American accent, his antithetical relationships with Shiv and Greg, and the sheer terror of eating Logan Roy's chicken. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Tom was such a handbrake turn in another direction.
And to play this moron, really quite a sympathetic man, but somebody described him as a human grease stain, which I thought was quite good.
But to play this kind of person is such departure.
It was just bliss.
It was just a real relief.
This is HBO succession podcast.
This is Roger Bennett, aka that corn fed basic from hockey town.
My guest today is a smarmy, brown nosed king of beta maleness.
A xenia clad, parasitic, social climbing mentor, tormentor, water bottle flinging.org chart obsessive cuckold Crown Prince of Doom Love, one of television's great nervous laughers, a man whose DNA is 83% fomo.
Oh yes, Tom Wamsgams, the submissive Minnesota night ultimate wife guy to shiv Roy, who married his way straight into the death pit at Waystar Royco, like a moth attracted to the flame of obscene wealth.
Look, here's the thing about being rich, okay?
It's fucking great.
Okay?
It's like being a superhero, only better.
You get to do what you want.
The authorities can't really touch you.
You get to wear a costume, but it's designed by Armani and it doesn't make you look like a prick.
But Womsgans is so much more than a one dimensional comic stooge.
Mostly because my guest plays him so deftly.
A state of mind.