Thad Luckinbill on big 'Lioness' speech

And you have a stunning monologue in this episode where Kyle lays out the worst-case scenario for Joe's kidnapping in daunting detail. Well, worse still, Iran hands her over to Hezbollah, which paralyzes us in the region because now they have a female U.S. citizen convicted of Iranian war crimes. How did you prepare for that scene? That's the beauty of Taylor's writing. He is so, first of all, brilliant when it comes to geopolitics. He understands the way the world works. He could be an advisor in the government. He could be a military advisor. He's so smart on the way the geopolitics work with China and Iran and Russia and the U.S. and the Middle East and the way they're all intertwined in Mexico and the way they all kind of have to play together, rely on each other, and work against each other at the same time. His ability to comprehend all that is next level. His ability to succinctly put it in a speech that hopefully the audience can understand is so fun for us as actors to say.