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From the very first episode of HBO the warJohnny Warren (Archie Reno) lives a (highly illegal) double life. While he appears to be just another talented young associate helping his boss at Taylor & Byrne represent movie star Carla Duvall (Sienna Miller) in her messy divorce case, he’s actually the cheerleader on the other side. After that the war Episode 1, she was spilling secrets to her handler, David Shill (Miles Jupp) at Cathcart & Sons, the same law firm that represents Carla’s ex Morgan Henderson (Dominic West).
Johnny’s carefully crafted spy game comes crashing down in this week’s episode the war – But not as you think.
** Spoilers ahead the war Episode 6 “The Simple Act of Paying Attention,” streaming now on HBO Max**
the war Episode 6 “The Simple Act of Attention” opens with two other associates in the case – Molly Giordano (Emma Laird) and Syed Masood (Shahin Jafarghol) – gathering that Khali is in their midst. Although John is in the spotlight, he eventually convinces Serena Byrne (Phoebe Fox) and Nicholas Taylor (James McArdle) that Said was a traitor.
however, the war Episode 6 ends with Serena realizing that Johnny is actually the snake in their midst… and it all comes down to one Keanu Reeves “quote” to David Sheil loves
“Well, the simple act of paying attention can take you a long way,” John is quoted as saying. “Do you know who said that?”
Serena pauses and then turns. “Yes, David Shealy.” And it’s clear that John is set up.
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Yes, he really does. When DECIDER spoke to the cast the warPhoebe Fox called the moment a “devastating betrayal” for Serena.
“It was so scary, oh my God, it was so scary,” Archie Reno said.
“I was really looking forward to doing that (scene),” Fox said. “When I read it, I thought,Oops! big.’ It was actually quite difficult to shoot then. The choreography was quite difficult, wasn’t it? In the end, I think I got one point about it. ”
“People watching it will be like, ‘What choreography?’ Reno said. “But that day someone came out and just like that – to make the line stop and turn around -“
“You had to stop the SA and the SA had to cross to the right. Yeah, it was one of those things where you’d have no idea watching, but we spent a lot of time going, ‘I take one step and you take two.’
“SA comes out, on that line, like, no, too early, I got it,” Renault said.
“But it’s such a good moment and I really didn’t see it coming,” Fox said.
“It’s great because he did the hard part, the rest is done.” Reno said.
Phoebe Fox also shared that the infidelity teases Serena more because she thought so highly of Johnny; As much as the actor asked the war Creator George Kay added him to the show.
“I think we’ve established that we have a relationship, that we have a connection for real,” Fox said. “We don’t really dwell on it in the series, but we kind of—”
“Of John’s two bosses, Serena is definitely the one who looks more lovingly at him,” Reno said.
“I asked George to put a little bit more in there. I said, ‘I think Serena should really go for Johnny’s stick.’ Because I think a lot of the other characters have had pretty privileged upbringings. They’ve gone through the public school system and got into Oxbridge, and I don’t think that’s in Serena’s background,” Fox explained. “She’s like the girls I went to school with who were just really smart at a pretty average state school, who were smart enough to get into a top university, but they had to work really hard to do it.
“I think he sees the similarities with Johnny. So in a way, the betrayal is like…”
“Gut punch,” Reno said.
Of course, because it is the warThere is irreverent fun in irony.
“That’s such a funny line, too,” Reno said. “It’s so random because I remember reading the first part, you’re like, ‘What? It is interesting. Cool, I like it. Did Keanu actually say that?” And it’s funny that Johnny remembered and went, ‘That was actually pretty good.'”
Fox said: “You wouldn’t think the whole series would revolve around that Keanu Reeves line.
