Jeremy Strong Doesn’t Like When a Director Yells ‘Action!’

variety.com:

Zack Sharf If you ever find yourself directing “Succession” Emmy winner Jeremy Strong, then you might want to forgo yelling “action!” before each take.

Strong told his “Serenity” and “Armageddon Time” co-star Anne Hathaway during their “Actors on Actors” conversation for Variety, presented by Apple TV+, that he prefers to take a nonverbal cue from a director when it’s time to start a take.

Strong outright dislikes it when “action” is called on set.“In a sense, every time somebody calls action — and I don’t like it when they call action; I like it when you just take your cue — but then you blindly follow a sense of truth and really rigorously do that,” Strong said about his process. “Then you discover what it is, and it reveals itself to you.

But I don’t ever know where I’m going. If you prepare enough and have internalized enough, then you just know.” While Strong’s career has surged in recent years thanks to his Emmy-winning run in “Succession,” it came after many years of roles going unnoticed by the public.“It’s the central question.