Jeremy Strong shoots down Succession revival question: “That is very happily put to rest”
"I'm sure there's a desire for more," Strong acknowledged about the HBO hit, while making it clear that Kendall Roy "came to his terminal point"
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It’s the curse of anything truly successful to be dogged, basically forever, with questions about when you’re inevitably going to bring it back—especially in TV, where networks have made it abundantly clear over the last few years that there’s pretty much no conclusion so final that they won’t at least gently poke at a winning creator (like, say, Succession’s Jesse Armstrong) with a “But you could probably make some more somehow, right?” Just don’t bring that idea to series star Jeremy Strong, who has, now that we’re more than a year past the show’s very dramatic final episode, made it extremely clear, once again, that he has no interest in reviving the tortured-but-shallow soul of A-Number-One Failson Kendall Roy.
“In terms of the role that I played, he came to his terminal point,” Strong told People this week, after they broached the topic of getting more blood from this particular televisual stone. “So for me, that’s something that is very happily put to rest.” Strong, who’s up for a Tony this year for his Broadway performance in An Enemy Of The People, acknowledged that “Can we get more Succession?” is certainly somebody’s problem at the moment, but that it’s definitely not his: “I’m sure there’s a desire for more. I would really pass that buck to Jesse Armstrong.”
To be (slightly) fair to the hounds baying for more foul-mouthed boardroom mayhem from television’s worst family, Armstrong did spend a while hemming and hawing about whether the show’s fourth season would be its last, before ultimately bringing the whole thing to a satisfying conclusion. (Although, as we noted in our review of the finale, we’d absolutely watch a whole new season of TV just about Tom and Shiv driving each other insane in their latest new horrible domestic arrangement. Maybe with Greg as their live-in servant? We would watch it, is all we’re saying.) Strong’s not wrong about Kendall hitting a “terminal point,” in that ending, either—to the point that the actor actually tried to improvise a suicide attempt while filming the show’s final scene. (He was stopped due to safety concerns about, well, jumping into a freezing New York river.)
More to the point, we don’t actually know what the hell we’d learn from another season of Succession: That writing team, those actors, and Strong in particular, spent four seasons plumbing the ugly, rocky, not especially deep depths of the Roy family in full; a return visit might be fun, maybe even emotionally harrowing. But what would actually be the point, beyond a very Logan Roy-esque craving for “more”?
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Jesus, I know Hollywood is totally out of ideas but I thought we had to at least make it 2 years bare minimum to do “nostalgic revivals”.
You mean like Christopher Nolan announcing he was attached to a Batman reboot the very same day that The Dark Knight Rises premiered?
I mean, if he’s secretly concerned that he’d have to shave his mustache, I’m sure they could write it into the script or just spend millions of dollars an episode to CG it out.
People just can’t let something end, and be done.
People don’t deserve nice things.
What the fuck is this clown wearing?
Maybe Met Gala weirdness??
That’s just how he dresses when he ducks out for milk and smokes.
I’m sure he prefers to not draw public attention to himself.
I get the feeling this guy might take acting very seriously. Probably not though.
His costume from his unreleased movie, The Shoe Cobbler of Venice.
It’s Jeremy Strong, so maybe the most conventional thing he wore all week?
Yeah there’s nothing left to do with the ‘succession’ storyline in Succession. It’s done. Tom is CEO of a company that has been acquired. The only string that could be followed would be GoJo somehow hitting the rocks and the siblings try to buy the media business back. But they’d get killed by actual corporate takeover professionals who know what they’re doing. Tom’s the only one who brings any value by virtue of having actually worked there for an extended period of time.
I was one of the people hoping they’d do like a Christmas special that gave some closure on the political situation in the world of the show. And yeah to get to check in on some of those characters.
Only if there’s Ewoks involved.
Revival?? It literally JUST ended.
I should probably not find it so funny that he was so sick of the show & role that he tried to improvise the character committing suicide
This article doesn’t say who “asked the question.” No one asked the question. Even PEOPLE mag doesn’t ask questions– they just make up shit.
“It’s the curse of anything truly successful to be dogged, basically forever, with questions about when you’re inevitably going to bring it back”Now, here’s 500 words about how gauche we think reboots are, but we’re still making this into a news story!
this show ended like 14 minutes ago, who the fuck is asking about a revival already?