Fun Fact: Amy Sedaris admitted she hated doing the tongue-twisters, so inevitably the writers responded by giving her the most of any cast member.

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Fun Fact: Margo Martindale didn't immediately know that the world of the show was populated by humanoid animals as well as humans; after her first recording, she told Will Arnett how much fun she had in her session, and that Mr. Peanutbutter had oddly dog-like qualities.

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Fun Fact: Michael Stuhlbarg researched his role as Arnold Rothstein so thoroughly that the show's writers found that he knew more about Rothstein than they did, and they deferred to his judgment of the character.

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Paz de la Huerta was fired due to being intoxicated most of the time she arrived on-set. In a Vanity Fair interview, La Huerta revealed that Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein had raped her in 2010 while she was filming S1. This traumatic event fueled her subsequent depression and alcoholism during S2

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Fun Fact: Richard Harrow's unmasked disfigured face was entirely computer generated. Jack Huston remarked that it was more of a challenge to imagine half of his face missing when he was not wearing a mask. Huston also stuffed cotton into his mouth to affect his speech and jaw placement.

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Creator Terrence Winter said it was always planned for Jimmy Darmody to be killed by Nucky Thompson, as a final payoff to Jimmy's warning to Nucky in the pilot (You can't be half a gangster, not anymore.) However, Winter did not expect to kill Jimmy off as early as S2.*Note continued in comments.

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In case there are any avid readers here. The show is based on the book “Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City” by Nelson Johnson

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Fun Fact: The age difference between Gretchen Mol and Michael Pitt, who play mother and son, is nine years. (In the show Mol's character, Gillian Darmody, became a mother at the age of thirteen.)

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Throughout the series, low-level mobster Mickey Doyle, played by Paul Sparks, gets in far more hot water for running his foolish, bragging mouth than for his criminal activities. In the show's penultimate episode he is finally (and symbolically) shot in the throat for talking too much.

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Most characters surrounding Nucky, and most of his life were fictionalized. Major exceptions were the infamous gangsters depicted; Al Capone, Johnny Torio, Lucky Luciano, Arnold Rothstein, etc. who were based by the writers and actors to some extent on the real criminals' personalities and actions.

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