Kate Aurthur editor SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from the Season 4 premiere of “Succession,” now streaming on HBO Max. In the season premiere of “Succession” — despite having gotten the deal he seemingly wanted — media titan Logan Roy (Brian Cox) paces through his birthday party, looking lost and miserable.
Having pushed away his adult children Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Roman (Kieran Culkin) and Shiv (Sarah Snook) in the Season 3 finale, by totally fucking them over in favor of selling Waystar Royco to Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgård), Logan is dissatisfied with the party’s attendees: Of his kids, only the absurd Connor (Alan Ruck) is there.
He’s surrounded by succubi and suck-ups, and he knows it. In an interview with Variety, Cox delved into Logan’s thinking in the premiere. “The moroseness is the fact that in a sense, he knows he’s failed in relationship to his children,” Cox said. “He’s not a fool.
He knows he’s failed.” It’s their fault, of course! According to Cox (and Logan): “They haven’t stepped up to the plate; they haven’t stepped up to the mark,” he said. “And he knows it’s partly his fault.
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