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‘The Regime’ Star Matthias Schoenaerts on Working With Hugh Grant, and That Crazy Sex Scene With Elena: ‘He Gives Her What She Wants’
‘The Regime’ star Matthias Schoenaerts on working with Hugh Grant, Elena's motivations — and that sex scene.
Every day, Zubak is forced to listen to a daily address by Chancellor Elena (Kate Winslet), who turned on her loyal right-hand man in last week’s episode by making him the ridicule of the country during the lavish Hero’s Banquet, calling him a “butcher” and cruelly teasing him sexually until he lost his cool and nearly killed her. But suddenly, he is confronted with the truth when he learns he is sharing this prison with the disgraced former chancellor Edward Keplinger (guest star Hugh Grant), whom Elena defeated in an election seven years prior and then jailed — despite telling the country he is off living an extravagant life on the taxpayers’ dime. Over a few meals of contraband food and alcohol, Keplinger begins to shatter the facade of Elena’s world for Zubak, telling him of the lengths to which she goes to hold onto power, including dragging him to a mountain house to “film a little fiction” of his so-called glamorous life that she can dispense to the masses and keep public sentiment in her favor.
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