BALLERS Adam Rayner Arrogant And Cocky, ’s Ready To Take On Season 2 And Andy Garcia. By Scott Fishman

“You’ re no one until you have as this star. That’s why everybody asks enemies” is the tagline for Season 2 of me what it’s like to work with him. I HBO’s Ballers. And this time, Dwayne think it made my performance better “The Rock” Johnson’s Spencer because I was so excited about how Strasmore and Rob Corddry’s Joe cool he was and how easy it was going Krutel have a big one to deal with in to be with him.” the form of Andre, played by veteran Though a memorable moment actor Andy Garcia. from last season was watching Joe “He plays the biggest sports trash his offi ce after Mr. Anderson fi red fi nancial manager in ,” Corddry him, one of Corddry’s favorite scenes explains. “Spencer has a personal to shoot this time around is of the TYRANT beef with him and wants to take him verbal variety. “I have my Boiler Room/ FX Tightens Its Grip On down. That’s basically the arc of the The Wolf of Wall Street/Glengarry The Summer Drama. whole season. [But] I always had an Glen Ross motivational speech admiration for this guy, no matter how moment,” he says. “It’s a ‘Coffee’s By Ryan A. Berenz sleazy he is. It becomes a huge thing. for closers’ type of thing. That was It’s not easy for the characters.” Not to really fun. It’s a sales-slash-fi nancial The saga about the mention the part where the additional trope that I’ve always loved. I loved political and familial turmoil

Ballers: © HBO Credit: Jeff Daly. Tyrant: Copyright 2015, FX Networks. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2015, Credit: KataBallers: © HBO Vermes/FX. Credit: Jeff Daly. Tyrant: competition comes as Spencer and working on that. So it was kind of like in the fi ctional Middle Eastern Rob are trying to build destroying the offi ce again … only with nation of Abbudin returns the sports division of words.” for a third season, as Barry Anderson Financial Corddry, who recently ended (Adam Rayner) must now from the ground up. Childrens Hospital after seven lead the divided country int o Corddry seasons, says that when he returned an uncertain future after the says Garcia fi t in to the Ballers set, “everybody fell into shooting of his brother Jamal seamlessly with the things a little bit easier for Season (Ashraf Barhom), whose fate is Ballers cast. “He is Andy 2. It was more familiar. From what unknown. Garcia. He would I’ve seen, it seems a little more real, Fresh off his role in The mesh well at your just because I think people are Good Wife, Chris Noth joins family Christmas more comfortable in their the Tyrant cast as an American dinner. The guy can own characters’ skins.” military general with a complex do anything.” Still, Including Corddry himself. backstory and lots of emotional the natural chemistry “I’m just really arrogant baggage who comes to between Johnson and cocky,” he laughs. “I Abbudin to assist Barry in and Corddry just walk around establishing a transitional anchors the show. pushing people. Rob government. Also signed “I think that is That’s what Corddry up for Season 3 is because he really, I’m told you’re Annet Mahendru (The really, really supposed to Americans), who plays admires me. do on a second the wife of a powerful Dwayne He looks season: Act like sheik from the province “The Rock” up to me,” you’re the king. Johnson of Ma’an, which was Corddry I think people once the target of a jokes about appreciate it.” chemical weapons attack his larger-than- Ballers > HBO by Abbudin’s military. life cohort. > Sundays > > “Initially, you Tyrant FX beginning don’t think of him as a Wednesdays beginning July 17 person. You think of him July 6

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