A different ending. Jeremy Strong tried to improvise a much darker conclusion for Kendall Roy on the series finale of Succession.The final episode, which aired Sunday, May 28, on HBO, ended with Kendall in despair after her learned his brother-in-law Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen) is the new CEO of Waystar Royco.
The eldest boy of the Roy family, as he called himself, walked through the city in a daze, gazing out at the East River before the credits rolled.However, Strong, 44, tried to show Kendall going into the water — potentially to his death.In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies“Listen to the John Berryman poem that Jesse has named these finales after.
John Berryman himself died by suicide, jumping into the frozen river,” the actor explained to Vanity Fair in an interview published on Monday, May 29. “I tried to go into the water after we cut — I got up from that bench and went as fast as I could over the barrier and onto the pilings, and the actor playing Colin [Scott Nicholson] raced over.
I didn’t know I was gonna do that, and he didn’t know, but he raced over and stopped me. I don’t know whether in that moment I felt that Kendall just wanted to die — I think he did — or if he wanted to be saved by essentially a proxy of his father.”Kendall had long hoped to succeed his recently-deceased father (Brian Cox) as the head of Waystar, but the board’s vote cut him out entirely.
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