Good news slime puppies: Kieran Culkin says he and J. Cameron-Smith will keep in touch after Succession
As for the rest of his Succession cast members, Kieran Culkin says it's a little more complicated
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Succession’s hottest and most sexually twisted couple plans on staying in contact even as the show wraps up with its fourth season. As many cast members now look beyond the acclaimed HBO series, Kieran Culkin says while keeping in consistent contact with everyone will not be possible, J. Smith Cameron is high on the call list.
“I’m not really going to keep up a proper relationship with anybody just because of logistics,” Culkin says, due to the cast’s permanent residencies all over the world. “It’s a big, big loss.”
The two’s closeness on set led to the show’s writers concocting a romance between Logan Roy’s right hand, Gerri, and his youngest son, Romulus. While the two never reached the status of OTP, they gave us a compelling couple to root for in the series devoid of any true romance. Smith-Cameron and Culkin have both played into their chemistry over the years on red carpets and award stages.
“We were kind of always flirting on set,” Smith-Cameron says of her co-star in an interview with Esquire. “It was never for one second a real flirtation. It was that set-crush kind of thing.”
Smith-Cameron likely is not the only co-star Culkin says he’ll miss as Succession ends, with his on-screen sister Sarah Snook sharing an interaction that’s “indicative of the very sibling relationship that Kieran and I have offscreen as well.”
To Esquire, Culkin shares a conversation he had with Snook spurred by Nicholas Braun’s realization that the cast could find themselves never sharing a scene again.
“Hey, Kieran, you’ll love this,” Snook recalls saying at the time. “When we finish this show, you and I will never work together again.”
In response, Culkin says, “I went, ‘Why the fuck would you say that? Fuck, I want to cry.”
“It hit him much more than I thought it would,” Snook admits.
While Culkin has little to say about the Roys played by Brian Cox and Jeremy Strong, he does divulge in another weepy on-set moment between him and Alan Ruck—who plays the eldest, Connor—during which a riff about boners turned sentimental.
“Kieran said, ‘I’m really going to miss you,’ ” Ruck tells me. “The feeling is mutual. I never had a little brother, and if I could have a little brother, I’d want him to be exactly like Kieran.”
Succession is currently airing on HBO and HBO Max on Sundays.
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That’s nice.
This seems like the sort of cast that should just keep doing the same show, with different settings, characters, and storylines. The script doesn’t have to be that good. They could do a remake of Small Wonder. I’ll watch it.
Some added context missing among the general horniness is that J Cameron Smith is married to the playwright and director Kenneth Lonergan who has worked on a good number of plays with Culkin. Cameron-Smith and Culkin were both in Lonergan’s movie Margaret.
So, yeah, it’s not actual sex stuff. Just normal annoying theater people incestuosness.
I was surprised that wasn’t mentioned as it has come up in a lot of interviews. The Roman/Gerri flirting was sparked by the two improvising because they had that closeness and comfort to draw on.
This is too wholesome for ‘Succession’. Quick, someone call someone else a cunt to restore the status quo.
AH, FACK OFF
It sounds like the relationships in the show were pretty heavily influenced by behaviors off-set, which is amazing if that’s what the writers actually did. You can really tell how lived-in the connections are between Culkin and Snook, and Culkin and Smith-Cameron, so hopefully the script was altered to include that as well.