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- Mr. Mason, it's hard

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to believe that you're the
right person for the job.

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- [Perry] I'm the only
person for this job.

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- What does it feel like to be surrounded

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by this whole 1930's aesthetic,

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with the costumes, and
the cars, and everything?

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- Yeah, that's the exact word.

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You know, immersion.

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You know, we're, I think
as a cast, very fortunate.

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HBO rarely do things by half.

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So, when they commit to a period piece

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like they did with Mason,
they really commit to it

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and part of that luxury, for us,

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is especially at the courtroom scenes

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or, you know, the big scenes outside

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with a number of extras,

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you can turn almost 360
and they've dressed it,

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there are background actors
that are dressed in that time.

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It feels immersive, so
you're not suspending,

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you don't feel like
you're suspending reality

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because you just feel like
you're in that moment.

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- So, when you actually step on set,

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you do feel like you're immersed,

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you do feel like you're shot
through a portal in time.

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Every detail is down and it
all feels very, very gritty

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and authentic.

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There's nothing shiny, or
new, or anything like that.

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Even the cars, like all of it,

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it just, you really feel like
you've been sent through,

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you know, a time machine.

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- Right, it's like even
when you're on the,

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you're in the courtroom,
there'll just be some papers

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that you'll never see on camera-

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- [Susan] Yeah.

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- But, they've been typed up to, you know,

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a certain legal, you know legalese

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and things from the era.

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It's really amazing.
- [Susan] Yeah.

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- Just sometimes looking and going,

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there's 50, what are they called?

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T-Model Fords or something.

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Like, the amount of
effort put in to support

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our visual world was incredible

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and it was always such
an easy transportation.

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- Yeah, one of my favorite
sets that we film on

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is the steps at City Hall,

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because it's one of those moments where

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you have all the cars parked outside,

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all the kind of lighting rigs,

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and then all these actors
in perfect, sort of,

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ensembles of, you know, amazing outfits,

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and hats, and gloves, and shoes,

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and the detail in everything
is so extraordinary.

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