Citadel’s David Weil and Angela Russo-Otstot on Cliffhangers, Making a Global Series, and Season 2

If you’ve already been drawn into the Russo Brothers’ Citadel on Prime Video, Collider’s Steve Weintraub spoke to writer and showrunner, David Weil, and executive producer, Angela Russo-Otstot, about the creation of this one-of-a-kind spy series. If you haven’t caught the episodes yet, this is a spoiler-free conversation that details how this first season, starring Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra Jonas, interconnects with the subsequent installments in Italy and India. Citadel is a “throwback to the great serializations” that begins eight years after this global intelligence agency is compromised from the inside. In order to protect their agents, Mason Kane (Madden) and Nadia Sinh (Chopra Jonas), Citadel wiped their memories and assigned them new identities. When Kane runs into an old colleague, Stanley Tucci’s Bernard Orlick, they’ll have to reactivate and relearn in order to save the world from Citadel’s opposition, Manticore, who seeks to take control of the world’s security. During their