Oh, how The Foundling has fallen. In the third episode of The Regime, “The Heroes’ Banquet,” Matthias Schoenaerts’s Corporal Zubak is banished from the palace after an intense and violent confrontation with Kate Winslet’s Chancellor Elena. On a brand new episode of Still Watching, hosts Hillary Busis, Richard Lawson, and Chris Murphy dissect Elena’s sudden change of coronary heart, and the way it might form Zubak’s future. Plus, Guillaume Gallienne drops by the podcast to debate enjoying first gentleman Nicky.
Zubak begins the episode driving excessive as Elena’s right-hand man, convincing her to eat grime and make use of sweeping land reform within the state we’re nonetheless calling Genovia. However, Zubak activates Elena after she reveals that she and her cupboard have been “skimming off the top” of the nation, stealing billions from her residents and storing the cash in an offshore checking account referred to as the Belize Fund. But Elena has greater issues to fret about then Zubak, as an impulsive choice to annex the Faban Corridor might have landed her in worldwide sizzling water, with none allies.
Although Zubak has seemingly pushed a wedge between Elena and her husband, Nicky, Regime star Guillaume Gallienne nonetheless believes of their relationship. “I’m sure that there is love,” says Gallienne relating to Nicky’s relationship with Elena. “There must have been passion at first, because he left everything, his wife, his kid. He left everything.” And regardless of being solid out of his marital mattress, Gallienne believes Nicky nonetheless has a sure sway over Elena that nobody else has—not even Zubak. “He’s got one advantage that the others don’t have—he’s not scared of her,” he says. “That is a very important thing. He can actually speak the truth to her.”
While Nicky might give you the chance converse reality to the chancellor, the facility dynamics of their relationship are set in stone. “He’s a bit of a masochist,” Gallienne says. “I think he quite likes to be dominated by her. He likes to be her rug.” Gallienne’s offscreen relationship with Winslet was a lot much less fraught. “The first scene we had was in the car, and we laughed so much,” Gallienne says. “We were laughing so much in this car, that Stephen [Frears] came to us and went, ‘Calm down, kids.’”
They apparently had such a good time that Winslet invited Gallienne to stick with her throughout the shoot. “She very quickly said, ‘I’m living in this house during the shooting. Don’t go to the hotel, come to the house,” Gallienne recollects. “And so we lived together for quite a long time during the shooting.… We got along very, very well. She’s so honest and very clever, and she’s very courageous.”
Will Nicky and Elena make it to the tip of The Regime nonetheless fortunately wed? Is this the final we’ll seen of Corporal Zubak? Has Elena unwittingly kicked off a civil battle in Genovia by annexing the Faban Corridor? We’re midway by means of The Regime, and it’s nonetheless anybody’s guess as to who will find yourself in cost by the collection’ finish. As all the time, ship any questions, feedback, or ideas concerning the collection to Still Watching at stillwatchingpod@gmail.com.