“People like us must destroy people like him…”
With the return ofBillionsjust three months away, Showtime has dropped an exciting first teaser trailer for season 5.
Stoll’s character, business titan Michael Prince, appears to be at odds with Axe (Damian Lewis) as he declares, “When I compete, I’m gonna win.”
And it looks like Axe and Chuck’s (Paul Giamatti) alliance may be on even shakier ground than where we left off, as Axe threateningly reminds him, “I want you to remember that when we weren’t friends, the world was a very uncomfortable place.”
“He wants to be friends, so we’ll be friends, right up until the moment we drop him,” Chuck says later.
“I guess it’s war,” notes Chuck’s wife (though maybe soon ex-wife?) Wendy (Maggie Siff).
Siff, 45, plays Chuck’s wife Wendy Rhoades, a powerful psychiatrist,Asia Kate Dillonis Taylor Mason, a protégé turned foe turned colleague of Axe’s, and David Costabile plays Mike “Wags” Wagner, Axe’s right-hand man and the COO of Axe Capital.
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“When we thought of bringing them together, we didn’t know exactly when they would start to be at odds again,” co-creator LevientoldEntertainment Weeklyat the time. “But we just knew two men with these qualities, this alpha-dog mentality, that a peace and alliance could never last forever.”
The upcoming season will further throw Taylor, a young, gender non-binary intern at Axe Capital, into the mix.
“What you get with Taylor is someone who is as smart, clear-eyed, lucid as the other two, and every bit as good at game theory and understanding power dynamics, with a different emotional toolkit than them,” Koppelman toldEW.“So it makes Taylor an incredibly formidable opponent.”
Joining the cast for season 5 areThe Good Wife‘s Margulies, formerHouse of CardsstarStollandCaptain America‘s Frank Grillo, perDeadline.
Billionsseason 5 premieres May 3 at 9 p.m. ET on Showtime.
source: people.com
