Early into filming Task , Raúl Castillo and Tom Pelphrey drove off set in Philadelphia to grab some lunch and get to know each other better. They were about to film the first episode ’s “big drug-house rip-off,” as Castillo calls it—full of precise choreography, tons of moving parts, and a lot of voices in the same room. Castillo was familiar with the director, Jeremiah Zagar, from a previous film they worked on together called We the Animals . Pelphrey had yet to work with either of them before. He was nervous.

“[Tom] gets really quiet during the drive,” Castillo tells me. “He lowers the radio, and he was like, ‘Talk to me. What’s Jeremiah like as a director?’ I started cracking up because I immediately knew why he was asking that. I don’t like to be micromanaged. And in that m

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