![]() Then through Norway, going to see Matsson, I felt that I capably handled that confrontation, although I did want to rip him apart limb from limb on that mountain top after he called me a “tribute band.” I was waiting for the writers to give me what felt like my best shot. I felt very concerned when I saw Kendall’s name on Logan’s note reanointing me as the incumbent. I got the script when we were shooting in Norway. I was on the edge of my seat thinking, Is Kendall going to fail again here? Were you similarly nervous when you read this episode’s script for the first time? “It’s hard to talk about my work without feeling a little bit ridiculous or self-important. “Talking about this stuff is always slightly painful for me,” Strong said at the start of the conversation. His passion came across not just in his analysis of the series, and his own decisions as a performer, but in the way he alternates between referring to the character as “I” and “Kendall” - sometimes within the space of a sentence. Strong agreed to cannonball into the deep end of theater-nerdom with Vulture, because he was so excited about portraying Kendall’s triumph. “I’m a theater nerd, and it’s a theater-nerd word, so I stand by it,” he told Entertainment Tonight. “I had an old girlfriend who used to call me Kierkegaard.” A 2021 New Yorker profile titled “ Jeremy Strong Doesn’t Get the Joke” depicted him as a pretentious social striver (Strong comes from a working-class background and had no preexisting industry connections) and quoted his co-star Brian Cox conceding that while Strong’s all-consuming identification with the tortured Roy failson got “tremendous” results, it embodied “a particularly American disease … this inability to separate yourself off while you’re doing the job.” In an HBO behind-the-scenes video about season four’s “ Connor’s Wedding,” Strong described the death of Logan Roy as a storytelling choice that made sense “dramaturgically,” a statement that almost instantly got memed. “People have been making fun of me about it for as long as I can remember,” he told GQ. He prolifically quotes literature, drama, and reportage and analyzes Kendall in the language of a therapist and literary scholar. Whenever he does, he comes off like the embodiment of the stereotypical capital-A actor - a “ cringe” person. ![]() ![]() Strong has been reluctant to discuss the nuts and bolts of his performance with journalists this season. At the same time, he introduces the episode’s eponymous product - a housing development that would sound like a retirement home crossed with a pharmacy and social-media platform if Kendall didn’t do such an unexpectedly good job selling it to investors. “Living+,” the sixth episode of Succession’s fourth and final season, sees the co-CEO spearhead a scheme to artificially inflate Waystar Royco’s value, pricing it beyond the reach of arrogant tech billionaire Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgård). It’s the rare installment that ends on a note of triumph for Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong). ![]() Spoilers follow for Succession season four, episode six: “ Living+. “We see this character plugged into a certain kind of voltage, like an electrical socket, and I always found myself wishing that would be sustainable.”
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