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Industry’s Trevor White on the Tragedy of Bill Adler


“He’s not bad, he’s just grown up that way. He’s a victim of the very system that he is championed from.”

But only one character dies both literally and metaphorically: Trevor White’s Bill Adler, the man who has cleaned up more than one Pierpoint mess over the years and who ultimately becomes the bank’s scapegoat for its catastrophic ESG mistakes. “Unless I come back as a Banquo ghost, that’s probably very literally it,” White says with a laugh, after sharing that Adler was almost written off the show with a Me Too story line in season two. I went to university in economics and I really thought I was going to be a version of Bill Adler, or, back in my generation, Gordon Gekko, Bud Fox.

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