‘Succession’ star Jeremy Strong says show ‘f–ked’ him up: ‘I don’t miss it’

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the Sunday Times, Strong said that after “Succession,” he has “rediscovered play,” because while he was doing the Emmy-winning role, “I sometimes lost touch with joy.”“[It] f–ked me up,” the Tony-winning actor added. “I went on a silent meditation retreat last week.

I really needed it.” “Succession” aired on HBO for four seasons from 2018 to 2023. It followed the Roy family, who owned a global media and entertainment conglomerate, including patriarch Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and his dysfunctional adult children, Connor (Alan Ruck), Kendall (Strong), Roman (Kieran Culkin), daughter Shiv (Sarah Snook) and Shiv’s husband, Tom (Matthew Macfadyen).

It won a slew of Golden Globes and Emmys, including Golden Globes for Culkin, Cox, Strong, Snook and Macfadyen and Emmys for Strong, Macfadyen, Culkin and Snook. “Listen,” Strong told the Times. “That show was an incalculable gift.

The material a banquet. So I miss that. But Kendall’s struggle was difficult to carry for seven years. And there’s just so much more I want to do.”When asked about whether he’d be game for a spinoff show about Kendall, Strong, who shares three kids with his psychiatrist wife, Emma Wall, said, “It’s not something I have any wish to do any longer.