After a little bit of a hiatus, Damian Lewis is returning to Billions for Season 7. He portrayed Bobby “Axe” Axelrod up till Season 5 when he left the present for largely private causes. Sadly, he was largely the spine of the present as much as that time. In truth, the central battle of the present options Axelrod and Paul Giamatti’s Chuck Rhodes. Axelrod is a corrupt hedge fund supervisor who’ll do something it takes to amass extra wealth, whereas Rhodes is an legal professional making an attempt to take him down.
Within the universe of Billions, on the finish of Season 5, Axelrod takes a deal to keep away from getting put away in jail for a decade. Mike Prince, portrayed by Corey Stoll, buys Axelrod out. Axelrod leaves the nation and settles down in Switzerland. How precisely they’ll incorporate him again into the present stays a thriller, particularly as a result of they will have to determine what they’re doing with Mike Prince’s storyline. Ideally, over the course of season 6, all of the items will fall into place.
One of many causes for Damian Lewis’ departure was the premature loss of life of his spouse, Helen McCrory. In fact, it took a little bit of an emotional toll on him, as it could on anybody. At the moment, Brian Koppelman spoke a bit with Leisure Weekly about Lewis’ tenure on the present. He mentioned:
The goodbyes on Billions and the hellos on Billions are by no means everlasting; nothing is etched in stone. However that mentioned, Damian’s time as a daily on Billions has come to an finish … We really feel actually honored and fortunate to have had 5 years of with the ability to know that Damian Lewis was Bobby Axelrod. However, once more, not saying it’s goodbye without end.
And it wasn’t; Lewis will seem in six of the 12 episodes of Billions Season 7, which can premiere on Showtime later this 12 months.
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