Fisher Stevens was playing Succession’s most oleaginous lick-spittle when he got the call. Leonardo DiCaprio wanted him to direct a Netflix documentary about David Beckham. At first Stevens wasn’t interested; he was having too much fun playing Hugo Baker, slimy comms guy for the loathsome Logan dynasty.
“I was like: ‘Nah.’ That’s going to be two years of my life and I’d really have to love spending time in that world,” says 59-year-old Stevens from an editing suite in New York.
