Eric Schultz, the former White House aide who advised Succession's writers, speaks to VF about the season's political storyline, recreating an election after the Donald Trump presidency, and election night snacks in the Obama era.
This past fall, Schultz found himself advising the writers ofto ensure their fictional presidential election cycle was as realistic as it could be, from election night vote tallies to the security footprint a candidate would have.
And so they asked me to be on set for the filming of election night. I think there’s just pieces and sort of texture that they wanted to make sure they got right. The writers are brilliant. I think what makes the show pop is this attention to detail about which they’re writing. That’s why they bring in subject matter experts. There’s certainly dramatic and even outrageous storylines, but they’re taking place in a context that feels credible and legitimate.
There was no detail too small to flag for them or that they didn’t wanna talk through. In episode four, when they talk of the presidential candidate [Jeryd] Mencken coming to Logan’s home, they asked what the security footprint would be for a stop like that—for Secret Service for a presidential candidate. I sort of walked them through what that would look like, and you would call this an OTR stop—one that’s not previously announced.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz speaks during a briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House on July 29, 2015.
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