SPOILER ALERT! This post contains spoilers for the series finale of HBO’s Succession. Jeremy Strong revealed in the official Succession podcast last night that, yes, he actually tasted that disgusting smoothie concocted by Sarah Snook’s Shiv in Sunday night’s finale.
The finale included a scene of sibling bonding in which Shiv, Strong’s Kendall and Kieran Culkin’s Roman giddily celebrated their agreement to support Kendall’s claim to the Waystar Royco throne in the kitchen of their mother’s Babados home.
During the late-night gathering, Shiv – apparently re-enacting a childhood game called “Fit For A King” – mixed some various ingredients into a foul-looking smoothie for King Kendall to drink.
In the episode, Kendall sips the concoction and then is rewarded by his siblings with the smoothie dumped on his head. “We did it only a few times and then I went outside and retched and jumped in the ocean, and washed it off my hair,” Strong says in the podcast. “Yeah, I did drink it, yeah.” The ingredients: Milk, bread crusts, Tabasco sauce, raw eggs, pickle juice, cocoa powder and Shiv’s spit. “I wouldn’t know how not to drink it,” says the ever-committed Strong. “He wants it that badly, that he’s going to drink whatever that is.
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