It was a surprising thing to hear Axe say, but it makes sense when you read the interview with Lewis, who also played a key character on Showtime's Homeland who departed midway through the show's long run. "I can't spend my live being a caged animal," Axe told Wendy Rhodes (Maggie Siff), his longtime confidant and a recent romantic obsession. Freed from quarantine, Axe sprung into action and Lewis got the chance to do what he does best in the role: Walk into rooms with a charming arrogance, verbally dismantle his opponents, and fire off pop-culture references like an assassin spraying bullets.
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In a characteristically busy hour of maneuvering, Axe attempted to free himself from a complicated financial trap involving a marijuana start-up and a private bank charter laid by long-time rival Chuck, Corey Stoll's do-gooder billionaire Mike Prince, and Asia Kate Dillon's mentee-turned-enemy Taylor Mason. Within the world of the show, Axe was under quarantine after catching COVID from the pilot of his private jet, meaning he spent many of his scenes glaring at colleagues over Zoom.īut Axe emerged from his quarantine for "No Direction Home," the season finale co-written by Billions co-creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien. In April of 2021, Lewis's wife, the actress Helen McCrory, died shortly after the show resumed production and Lewis shot most of his scenes for this season remotely in England.
The first seven episodes aired in 2020 the show returned for five new episodes this fall. The news arrives after a tumultuous season for Billions, which was split in half by the pandemic after production shutdown midway through Season 5. “But for now, broadly speaking, Axe has been vanquished.” “There’s an opportunity maybe for me to return,” the actor told the New York Times in an interview. But last night's season finale put the character in what appears to be a new permanent surrounding: Switzerland, where he's far away from the show's action in New York.Īfter the episode aired, news broke that Lewis will be leaving the show he co-headlined since it premiered back in January of 2016. Coyote with a private jet and a personal chef. The hedge fund genius at the center of Showtime's Billions, the high-gloss finance drama that pitted the icy cold Axe against the fiery prosecutor Chuck Rhodes (Paul Giamatti), has always been able to mentally outrun the competition like Wile E. After five seasons of schemes, betrayals, and triple-crosses, Damien Lewis's endlessly clever Bobby Axelrod finally faced a tricky situation he couldn't think his way out of.
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