Ashley Zukerman is that guy: you’ll know him from something and you’ll have enjoyed him in it. It might be Nate Sofrelli from Succession, the political strategist who begs for an affair with Sarah Snook’s Shiv Roy – a stalemate that ends in a parked car when Shiv grabs Nate’s hand and shoves it down the front of her jeans. (“A memorable day at work,” Zukerman says.) Or maybe you saw Apple Cider Vinegar, where he played Belle Gibson’s deeply awful and codependent partner. Or in the delightfully daft Dan Brown show The Lost Symbol as the dashing know-it-all symbology expert Robert Langdon. He was also a sinister US politician in Netflix’s Designated Survivor, and is now playing a promising US politician in Apple’s dystopian drama Silo.
Zukerman has noticed the pattern too. “I seem to get cast as American politicians or what I am going to call … morally marginalised nice guys,” he says.
