Exclusive: Billy Magnussen talks Made For Love Season 2
Currently playing on HBO Mx is the second season of its acclaimed comedy series Made For Love, starring Cristin Milioti (as Hazel Green), Billy Magnussen (as Byron Gogol), Ray Romano (as Herbert Green), Dan Bakkendahl (as Herringbone), Noma Dumezweni (as Fiffany), Caleb Foote (as Bennett), and Sarunas J. Jackson (as Jay).
Based on the novel by Alissa Nutting, MADE FOR LOVE is a poignantly humorous story of modern love and divorce. Season One followed Hazel Green (Cristin Milioti), a thirty-something woman on the run after ten years in a suffocating marriage to tech billionaire Byron Gogol (Billy Magnussen), as smart as he is insufferable. After discovering that her husband implanted a monitoring device – the Made for Love chip – in her brain, allowing him to track her, watch her and know her "emotional data," Hazel fled to her desert hometown to take refuge with her outcast father Herbert (Ray Romano) and his synthetic partner, Diane.
In the second season, in order to save her father’s life, Hazel returns to the Hub, Byron’s high-tech palace. But once inside, she and Byron both become ensnared by Gogol’s newest revolutionary (and dangerous) technology.
For Magnussen, who plays Byron, the Queens, NY native is having a ball of a time playing a lead. Over the years, we’ve seen Magnussen give incredible performances is films such as Into The Woods, Bridge of Spies, The Big Short, Game Night, Aladdin, The Many Saints of Newark, and the most recently No Time To Die. He can also seen in The Survivor, opposite Ben Foster. Blackfilmandtv.com’s Wilson Morales recently caught up with Magnussen as he spoke about what to expect from Byron in the second season of Made For Love.
