It’s been a long day. The sun is setting, and Fabien Frankel is has been through a whirlwind round of interviews for his new HBO crime drama, Task , before it’s even my time to talk with him. So I figure that we need a strong palate cleanser to reset the evening. I suggest a literal one: two beers. “Mate, that’s a great idea!” Frankel says, eyes widening. He asks his team to run downstairs at New York City’s Plaza Hotel and pick us up a round. Minutes later, we’re clinking bottles. “A proper cheers, man,” he says, laughing. “I love it.”

Frankel deserves a proper cheers—and a beer that isn’t Yuengling. “It’s very yeasty,” the 31-year-old from London says before our beers arrive, “but if someone brought up a couple of Yuenglings now, I wouldn’t be pissed off about it.” He drank a lo

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