‘Loot’ Co-Creator Matt Hubbard On A Comedic Look At The “Outsized Influence” Billionaires Have On Our Lives: “It’s Almost Like They’re American Royalty” – Contenders LA

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“Molly at the start of Season 2 is nursing her wounds a bit, but has really taken charge of her life,” Maya Rudolph said of her Loot character at the show’s Deadline Contenders TV panel Saturday. “For her, that includes a wellness, a real growth at the Wells Foundation and really stepping into the role of being boss, which is really invigorating for her.” After going on a worldwide bender, newly single 45-year-old Molly Wells (Rudolph), who became the world’s third-richest woman after divorcing her tech billionaire husband, decides to run the day-to-day operation of the charitable foundation she forgot that she had founded, much to its employees’ chagrin.

Season 2 begins after Molly makes the mistake of sleeping with her ex John, played by Adam Scott, and decides to redouble her efforts at the Wells Foundation. “When we were figuring out the idea, I was reading so much about billionaires and some of them had been going through divorces and that’s how we came up with the idea,” co-creator Matt Hubbard said. “Billionaires have an outsized influence on our lives.

It’s almost like they’re American royalty. We look up to them, and are challenged by them, and are worried about them, so I think it’s a very fun and particularly American kind of issue and a great world to explore.” RELATED: Contenders TV: Deadline’s Full Coverage Also joining the panel was Joel Kim Booster, who plays Molly’s personal assistant and closest friend Nicholas, whose character opens up more in the second season. “They did such a great job in Season 1 of creating this really great character that was certainly not a stretch for me, by any means, to be a mean gay guy,” Kim Booster said. “That was the original name for the character, right?