jesse wrote this -- well, he wrote a play and frank rich steered him towards the roys >> it feels more in a way that the family is, from what i see, the dow jonesfore murdoch bought it, because they were kind of -- you have the brother who kind of doesn't do anything -- no offense to that brother, if he's watching when they came to you and they read the script -- >> i didn't -- >> or when you looked at the pictures i had a treatment. because they didn't have a script >> did you or your agent have any idea that it was going to become, arguably, the hottest show in the united states. >> no. we had no idea i mean, you know, we did -- even in the first series, you know, it took a while to get going but i think that's because i was ill in character for a lot of the first series so i wasn't quite present. so by the second series, low kblowgan as well. in fact, i was only supposed to do one series. i had a conversation with both adam mckay who directed the first episode and jesse and adam mckay was in l.a., jesse was in italy. and i said, so it's a one-series part and there was this silence you could cut -- oh, no, no, no, no,. it will be on more than