Warning: This article contains spoilers for episodes 4-6 ofDaisy Jones & the Six.

Eddie is surrounded by idiots.

“The Eddie stuff was really interesting,” showrunner Scott Neustadter tells EW.

Sebastian Chacon (Warren), Josh Whitehouse (Eddie); THE LION KING, Simba, Scar, 1994. ©Buena Vista Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection

Josh Whitehouse as Eddie on ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’; Scar from ‘The Lion King’.Lacey Terrell/Prime Video; Disney/Everett

“I wanted to make him deeper than he was on the page,” Whitehouse tells EW.

“There’s a lot left out for Eddie in the book.

Eddie is a little bit manipulative in that sense.

The glittering smile Come with me.”