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The detail in this has been so beautiful and so amazing.

My job's been really easy because even before I was told about this interview,

I was just looking at the crib-a-crab and I was like, "Man, that's beautiful.

And that's bright and that's what they would have had.�

Miss Heisenberg.

Thank you for coming down so early.

Tammany had a political office on East 14th Street.

But we decided as we went along that you had an office close to Five Points.

14th Street feels like pretty far away for the time.

Although we did talk about at one point

to give you an office in a police station.

But we felt that we needed to elevate him

and give him some real stature

so we chose to give him quite a beautiful office

How long will I be your pawn?

Is that how you see our collaboration? -Is that what you call this?

That's the problem with you Anglo-Saxons,

you lack a talent for grandeur.

This department's the real historian in these pieces.

Everyone's an artist and everyone has their homework to do

and it makes a big difference.

That's a lot of fun, that's what's the most fun about a period piece,

is actually doing the history, you are looking back and seeing what was there,

what would be there, also the screenwriters are doing great.

They're really guiding this completely, right through the whole storyline.

They make it so easy for us to just look it up.

You know, "This is supposed to be here..."

They know their stuff, deeply.

I've learned a lot on this job.

Let's just say you and I make great business partners.

The world is our oyster, my dearest Eva.

He's a very intellectual guy, Donovan.

But he's just obsessed with this notion

that the upper classes look at us like we're animals.

Make no mistake,

our critics partake in the same recreations,

but to them, we're scum.

We're the enemy.

We're the barbarians at the gates of Rome.

As for me, I see them as what stands in the way of our rising in society.

And so I think he almost tries so hard to go overboard

with taste and class and elegance and refinement

because he's so afraid that people will pull his covers

at any time and just go, "You're just a dirty Irish immigrant.�

I mean, we have Lincoln's portrait.

Shakespeare's books and they were requested by the producers

so we managed to buy them.

I think the first one was almost worth several thousand dollars.

This is pretty amazing.

You took advantage of your power and wealth.

I don't intend to gloat but I do like to win.

We'll have certain props that are specific to the particular episode.

We have some charts that we were talking about an aqueduct being built

in this upcoming episode so we'll have charts

showing the streets and where the aqueducts can go in

but that's very specific.

The Board of Alderman vote should not be the problem.

Being underbid on the project, that is the danger.

There's no detail too minute that isn't taken care of.

That's pretty mind-blowing.

I loved this show when I saw it as just a fan last year.

I had a little bit of actor envy, as they say,

like, "Ooh, that's a cool world. That'd be fun to get in there.�

And now, to be here, it's amazing.