‘The Regime’ Star Matthias Schoenaerts on Working With Hugh Grant, and That Crazy Sex Scene With Elena: ‘He Gives Her What She Wants’
variety.comHunter Ingram SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from “Midnight Feast,” the sixth episode of HBO’s “The Regime,” now streaming on Max.
For Herbert Zubak, it only took public humiliation, imprisonment, murder and a mental breakdown to bring him some clarity. At the start of Episode 4 of HBO’s “The Regime,” the tortured soldier (played by Matthias Schoenaerts) is sleep-deprived and barely holding on in prison.
Every day, Zubak is forced to listen to a daily address by Chancellor Elena (Kate Winslet), who turned on her loyal right-hand man in last week’s episode by making him the ridicule of the country during the lavish Hero’s Banquet, calling him a “butcher” and cruelly teasing him sexually until he lost his cool and nearly killed her.
Now a prisoner, Zubak is refusing to sleep so as not to dream of the woman to whom he has devoted his life. But suddenly, he is confronted with the truth when he learns he is sharing this prison with the disgraced former chancellor Edward Keplinger (guest star Hugh Grant), whom Elena defeated in an election seven years prior and then jailed — despite telling the country he is off living an extravagant life on the taxpayers’ dime.
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