Giorgio Scali, ASC: Light and Darkness in the Halls of Power on The Diplomat
Giorgio Scali, ASC had worked with Debora Cahn and Alex Graves on Homeland, and when The Diplomat moved to New York for its third season they called him. He is credited on four episodes of that season. Three are shared with Julian Court, who shot the England scenes, and Scali lit the New York work to match, with more fill than he would use by habit. The sixth episode, "Amagansett," is his alone. He asked Cahn if he could shoot it on K35 lenses, which the show had never used. "Do you think it'll look cool?" she asked, and then told him to do it.
Most of his conversation with host Jared…
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