Jeremy Strong stays in costume all the time while shooting Succession
The actor also picks out the clothes for his Waystar Royco heir Kendall Roy
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As Succession remains in production on its fourth season, Conheads everywhere are desperate for any new information on television’s preeminent horrible rich family. Though star Jeremy Strong is currently promoting his role in Armageddon Time, the HBO drama was obviously brought up in a recent interview with W magazine, and the Kendall Roy actor reveals that he pulls double duty on the show as a costume designer.
“I don’t know if it’s a skill or secret, but fashion is a passion,” the The Trial Of The Chicago 7 actor says when asked about his secret skill. “I pick out all the wardrobe for Kendall Roy, my character in Succession, and I live in those clothes when we’re shooting the show. The clothes maketh the man, and aesthetics are so personal.”
Strong has previously been spotted wearing Kendall’s necklace from the pivotal season three episode “Too Much Birthday” on the red carpet. The limited edition pendant features art from Rashid Johnson’s Anxious Men series.
“You know, I’ve thought a lot about Tár recently, and this idea of the signal-to-noise ratio of life,” Strong continues. “When we’re bombarded with so much noise, I guess there are certain clothes makers who embody an ethos that I’m drawn to. There’s a designer named Haans Nicholas Mott. Everything is hand-stitched, and everything is done with precision and soul. I guess precision and soul are things that I look for in acting and everything.”
In the year since the New Yorker published a widely talked-about profile of Strong detailing his unique eccentricities that help him get into character, it seems like the actor has decided to just really lean into being That Guy. Good for him, not everyone has that level of self awareness!
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All the time? You mean… even when he’s… y’know……………sleeping?
I dunno, doesn’t this dude’s character have several sets of expensive pajamas and shit?
I think the big difference between someone like Strong and Leto doing things like this, is that it actually pays off for Strong.
And also, it seems like Strong isn’t an asshole with it, he’s just kind of weird. Maybe I’m wrong, but I haven’t really heard anything about him being super hard to be around, just not an especially fun castmate. More eccentricities than anything else. But whatever he is doing, it’s working. He is giving a phenomenal performance in Succession, the kind of role that people will still be talking about in a few decades.
Closest thing to him “being an asshole” I can think of is asking to be tear gassed for Chicago 7 only to be told “we’re not doing that because we are not tear gassing all the extras that will be around you for that scene” and even that is probably more being oblivious than anything.
Hadn’t heard of that, but yeah, it does seem to be less “using method acting as an excuse to be an asshole” than “trying to get into character without fully thinking about the logistics”.
Between takes of the trial scenes, in which the Yippies mock Judge Julius Hoffman, played by Frank Langella, Strong would read aloud from Langella’s memoir in silly voices, and he put a remote-controlled fart machine below the judge’s chair. “Every once in a while, I’d say, ‘Great. Let’s do it again, and this time, Jeremy, maybe don’t play the kazoo in the middle of Frank Langella’s monologue,’ ” Sorkin said.That is asshole behavior. Of course its a sliding scale, but still.
Yeah, I mean from the snippets in the interview he sounds like he would be fucking exhausting to be around, but he’s also not really hurting anyone, so . . .
Same with Daniel Day Lewis (who used to have Strong as an assistant). It’s wacky as fuck, but I dunno…I guess if they’re not hurting anyone, then it’s certainly worth the results they get.Personally, I think it might be a touch easier to get into character as Kendall Roy than Abraham Lincoln, since we all have pre-existing visions of who the latter was in our minds and DDL had to surpass that.And as much as I dislike Leto, he did scoop up an Oscar. So I guess it kinda worked for him too.
It also seems like the rest of the crew/cast knows ahead of time that this is how this actor likes to work .. instead of opening their mail and finding dead animals, or whatever else Jared Leto sends them. I guess time will tell who’s methods achieved the greater artistic goals, once history properly assesses how Justice League and Morbius stacked up against Succession …
To be fair, a lot of that Suicide Squad stuff seemed to be a bit overblown by people. Like he never sent anyone a dead animal, he sent Margot Robbie a live rat, which she kept as a pet. Viola Davis seemed waaay more unprofessional during that shoot, she’d just start cussing out Joel Kinnaman before takes calling him a bitch among other things. Kinnaman to his credit took in stride.
I feel like “things like this” is doing a lot of heavy lifting when it stretches from Leto’s “sends a dead pig and ‘used’ condoms to castmates” to Strong’s “mostly keeps to himself” and “wears clothes”.
Yeah, this is very benign compared to the weird Leto shit. Unless the next article is about how he treats the costumers like shit, it’s probably welcomed to have his input with his character in mind.
Yea…I was gonna say…I love all his projects right now, if it works it works…succession is a joy to watch.ButI can’t resonate with that commentary at all. It’s pretty douchey. In an objective not trying to be mean way
Plus, just wearing clothes doesn’t affect anybody but you, whereas playing childish pranks and being a jerk make everyone else’s job miserable.
Strong also doesn’t have an island cult.
Going by that photo above, Jeremy Strong is… Green Lantern.
Or perhaps… Sinestro?
Power Ring.
Or the villain in a blaxploitation film.
I think he would make a good Guy Gardner.
Man, he really DOES look like a Green Lantern-era Sinestro, if we ever saw him at home just chilling.
“So…we have hired you as a Green Lantern to…like guard the galaxy…and according to our records your name is [checks name] Sinestro…so I guess we’re just going to ask for the ring back, though I don’t suppose it will be forthcoming”
Maybe because he’s cheap or somehow couldn’t afford those clothes. I will gladly wear designer clothes that HBO paid for.William Shatner wore the same toupee even when he’s not on Star Trek years later. /s
I really hope that’s the case. Along the same lines, I’ve always had a soft spot for bands who wear their own merch. You already paid for those shirts, why spend more money on other shirts!?
I mean, they’re pretty normal clothes. It’s not like he has to stay dressed up as the predator or something.
“I pick out very normal looking extremely expensive clothes, and I live in those clothes as a tax write-off…not sure if it’s a skill or if I’m motherfucking magic but I manage to wear $5000 turtlenecks on a daily basis and somehow be more of a twat about it than the ordinary person who just enjoys wearing $5000 turtlenecks…as a result I basically make no money on the show, but is Kendoll MAKING money?”
He’s so pretentious but I love him anyway.
I just want to put him in my pocket and carry him around so that he never gets hurt. He is MY number one boy and somehow also my babygirl. I love him so.
Was I supposed to read this in Matt Berry’s voice? Because I totally did.
So?