Jeremy Strong Is “Happily” Done With ‘Succession’ Despite “Desire For More”
deadline.comDon’t expect to see Jeremy Strong at the next Roy family reunion. The Golden Globe winner said any said any possibility of a Succession revival has been “happily put to rest” for him more than a year after the critically-acclaimed HBO series ended its four-season run. “I’m sure there’s a desire for more [Succession].
I would really pass that buck to [creator] Jesse Armstrong,” he told People ahead of the 77th Tony Awards. “But I think in terms of the role that I played, he came to his terminal point,” added Strong. “So for me, that’s something that is very happily put to rest.” Strong won his first Emmy Award and Golden Globe for starring as Kendall Roy on Succession, which followed the grown Roy children (Strong, Sarah Snook and Kieran Culkin) as they fought for the keys to their father Logan Roy’s (Brian Cox) media empire, Waystar Royco.
Following the show’s May 2023 finale, Strong explained to Deadline how hard it is to separate himself from the character of Kendall. “He is me, and I am him.
It’s hard for me to extricate myself from that or look at him in any other way,” said Strong. “He’s this concatenation of all these misfires and abortive attempts and a kind of desperate wanting.
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