"We really took him into the tent and talked about where we see it going over the next number of years so he's got a really good sense of what we want to do," explained DC Studios' chief Peter Safran.
The Welsh actor spent three months auditioning for the part and turned in two lengthy screen tests to play the title character. But he had no issues with it: "I'm untested in this space, so I was glad he did it."
Patriarch Martin "Pop" Huvane was described as a devoted husband, father of six, grandfather and "proud New Yorker" who worked for the New York Transit Authority and Encyclopedia Britannica.
The actress opens up to The Hollywood Reporter about a new partnership and what it felt like to see Lena Dunham's HBO hit land on The New York Times' top 100 TV shows of the 21st century: "It stopped me in my tracks."