Two years ago, Aidan Sleeper needed to find an apartment. No, he had to lock down a Manhattan residence for Bobby Axelrod, the “Billions” hedge fund phenom played by Damian Lewis. “We always joke, ‘billionaire, not millionaire,’” Sleeper said on a January morning at the “Billions” production office in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, as he scrolled through a desktop folder of photos. Months after his initial deadline had passed, as he was viewing a ho-hum TriBeCa penthouse, he saw, from its terrace, another penthouse blocks away. It was urban, masculine, almost stark in its poured concrete floors and severe lines — it said billionaire, not millionaire.

Source: New York Times March 14, 2019 06:45 UTC