Jeremy Strong has admitted that working on Succession “fucked me up” and said he has no desire to return to the show.
The HBO series, which explored the travails of the Roy family, the megalomaniacal owners of a global media empire, ended last year after four seasons.
Strong, who played Kendall Roy, said in a new interview with The Sunday Times, that he does not miss playing the character and that Kendall’s fractured life and confused psyche took its toll on him.
“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,” he said.
Jeremy Strong as Kendall Roy in the finale of ‘Succession’. CREDIT: HBO
“It’s not something I have any wish to do any longer. I’m aware it is one of the main chapters of my life, but I don’t miss it.”
In the aftermath of playing Roy, Strong also said that he had to “rediscover play,” also claiming that he “sometimes lost touch with joy”.
His comments echo similar sentiments he made earlier this year, when he said he does not want to see another season of the show, saying at the time, he felt that it had been “put to rest”.
Meanwhile, Strong is currently starring in the Donald Trump biopic, The Apprentice as the infamous attorney Roy Cohn, which is due out in UK cinemas this Friday (October 18). Sebastian Stan plays the lead role as a young Trump in the movie.
Netflix recently turned down the opportunity to acquire the film, because “they have millions of MAGA subscribers,” director Ali Abbasi claimed.
According to an official synopsis, the film is “an exploration of power and ambition set in a world of corruption and deceit. It’s a mentor-protege story that charts the origins of an American dynasty. Filled with larger than life characters, it reveals the moral and human cost of a culture defined by winners and losers.”
The movie received five stars in NME‘s review, which described it as “one of the most original films of the year”. “A film that twists, and keeps on twisting, until you just don’t know where it’ll go next, it’s a wild, weird and wondrous ride,” the review added.
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