Nicholas Braun says Jeremy Strong played car crash sounds on the Sucession set to hype up his castmates
Will we ever tire of diving into the bottomless well that is Jeremy Strong's acting technique? All signs point to no.
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Another day, another truly incredible/slightly concerning revelation about Jeremy Strong’s Succession acting method. This one comes via Nicholas Braun (cousin Greg), who chimed in on yet another wacky Jeremy Strong profile published today in GQ.
Amidst the usual Strong aphorisms about his proclivity for brown clothing (it’s “monastic chic”) and the human condition (“The self is a bit of a prison.”), it’s his co-star’s brief cameo that, like last time, really paints a picture.
To get his co-stars in the mood for a season 4 scene, Braun shared that Strong “found a YouTube video of horrible crashes and destruction from, maybe, Transformers, and he had the sound department play it loud on the speakers so that we could hear it. I think that’s the mentality: why not try something to see if it does change the energy in the room and in a performance?”
Are more literal car crashes coming in season 4 or was Strong just trying to soundtrack the metaphorical crashes these wayward kids enact every day? Remains to be seen, but the actor did address the trauma of filming that iconic season 1 finale scene in the profile. “One day, when the show is over, it’ll be easier for me to maybe talk about that stuff, but while it’s still going, that thing still feels real to me in a way,” he said. Ah, the joys of method acting.
Speaking of method acting, Strong is—unsurprisingly—very hard to break. (If you, as an actor, can get through Kendall’s rap with a straight face, we imagine you can get through quite literally anything.) Well, anything except for Greg the egg, of course. “I’ve had two or three times where he’s broken, and it’s been in one-on-one scenes. So I feel very proud about that,” Braun said. “Usually, he is unbreakable. It’s incredible.”
Succession season 4 premieres March 26 on HBO.
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Might want to fix your headline to show the correct spelling of Succession!
Wow, he is really coming across as a dickhead.
I’ve worked with dicks like that. One would go screaming racist shit around our green room while the rest of us were just trying to chill before we went on. He pretended he was just “getting into character.” The advantage of being the old Black broad in the cast is that I knew not to give him the attention he wanted. Inside I was seething but I would just sit there, crocheting and glancing over my lines. Once everyone noticed I was ignoring him, they followed suit, and then he was just a screaming racist asshole. And because I was so quiet, by the time I promised him, in front of everyone, that I would shove his head up his ass if he ever spoke to our very young Black ingenue like that again, everyone knew I meant it and believed I could walk my talk. He tried to talk his way out of it, but nope. It’s the only time I have ever let my true feelings about someone bleed into a character. We had one scripted interaction. I had one line in that interaction. I made it count. Years later we ran into each other at one of those industry events where you are expected to act chummy, he walked up to me with “I know you don’t like me …” Which, true. Mostly tho, I thought “What a fucking waste.” Dude was white, cis, genre tv handsome, and could really act. He didn’t need to do any nonsense.