In the finale, Kendall tells the story about his dad promising him the kingdom when he was 7 years old. Was that new information for you or was that moment always in your understanding of the character? Jesse gave me a bible, a timeline for Kendall, that I always had and referred to since we started. That was a memory for me that I carried around. In my mind, it happened concretely at this place called the Candy Kitchen, which is on Route 27 out in the Hamptons. Jesse let me throw that in there to crystalize the memory. But in a way, that’s where the seeds of destruction are. The child is tethered to the man. It’s a promise, and also, it’s a sentence. He doesn’t really have a chance. His father says, “One day, this will all be yours.” And that becomes his reason for being, and his only reason for being. The loss of that, finally, that we see in this episode, is an extinction-level event.
