Irons admits that he took the job of playing such a heartless character a bit personally revealing, “There was a there was a picture of me in the production office. And that's how I have to look at Malcolm.” He didn't do a good job, but he did so in a way that enabled him to survive. He further explains that his character suffer great trauma but received no help to cope. To settle into playing such a cruel character, Irons says that he rationalized that, “when a person is evil, they don't wander around thinking they're evil.”
While Rooper’s character shows a fair amount of naivete in the beginning of the series, Irons’ Malcolm, while suave and seemingly kind at the outset of the story, quite quickly transforms into someone with an extremely harsh personality. She adds, “there's something about playing Olivia that for me was incredibly empowering.” She credits Sciarrotta’s writing for this.
Rooper says that while she personally feels very far removed from the stone-hearted Olivia, the character was ‘so vivid on the page’ that she never had any questions as how to play her.
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