‘Rivals’: David Tennant & Nafessa Williams Talk Tony & Cameron’s Complicated Relationships

Despite being knocked down pretty hard by his former producer and mistress Cameron Cook (Nafessa Williams, commanding every scene she’s in) at the end of the first season of this dazzling drama, Lord Tony Baddingham (David Tennant, deliciously devilish in the role) has found ways to come out on top again and again throughout the first half of Rivals‘ sophomore run. It’s no surprise — it’s what he does. “It’s his confidence,” Williams notes. “He believes that he can do anything.”

But the TV exec is delivered a devastating blow at the end of the midseason finale, a death that is a drastic departure from the Jilly Cooper books on which the U.K. drama, which has become a hit over here in the U.S. on Hulu, is based.