Sarah Snook Told the ‘Succession’ Crew She Was Pregnant After the Craziest Shiv and Tom Scene Ever
usmagazine.comSarah Snook found out she was pregnant while filming Succession’s final season — and chose the wildest moment possible to share the news with her crew.
During the seventh episode of season four, Shiv Roy, played by Snook, 35, and Tom Wambsgams, portrayed by Matthew Macfadyen, find themselves at an impasse in their marriage while hosting a crowded election eve party in their apartment.
When the pair take a beat to argue and exchange heated words on the balcony, a secretly pregnant Shiv tells him her husband he’s pathetic — and Tom retaliates. “And I think you are maybe not a good person to have children,” he seethes.
Moments after Snook was finished filming the heartbreaking scene, she revealed her real-life pregnancy to the show’s cast and crew.“Inevitably something dulls, and you get used to a scene and you are not finding the sort of same spontaneity or inspiration in it,” Snook told Variety in an interview published on Wednesday, August 3. “So when I hear that line, ‘Maybe you’re not going to be a good mom’ — maybe that’s me hearing it, just as much as it is Shiv.
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