A loooong Jeremy Strong interview that discusses his method acting

[silverstarry]

“To me, the stakes are life and death,” Jeremy Strong said, about playing Kendall Roy in “Succession.” “I take him as seriously as I take my own life.” https://t.co/0P9BkUFect
- The New Yorker (@NewYorker) December 6, 2021

Some choice quotes/anecdotes:

Comments

[therearewords]

Good gracious OP, is there anything left of the interview?

“I jumped off a stage, thinking I could fly, but it turns out I can’t,” he said. “It made sense in the moment, though.”
... boy

[silverstarry]

If you can believe it, there's even more in the interview. There was a whole section about how he became Daniel Day Lewis' assistant on The Last of the Mohicans and DDL's method acting (among other things).

One tidbit that made me sad: this parents didn't have a lot of money so they kept a canoe in the backyard that Jeremy and his brother could sit in it and pretend they were on vacation. I know that not going on vacation is NOT the end of the world (I can count on one hand how many family vacations I went on as a kid) but the visual of two kids just sitting in a canoe made me a little sad.

But yeah, it sounds like his is exhausting to deal with in any capacity.

[maryhurt]

Its like joey and chandler on that friends ep

[evett]

the fact that he's seriously hurt himself twice on the set of succession going off script makes me wonder in last night's episode if he was actually inhaling water because he's just so ~method~

[fart]

he sounds exhausting

[ljtryout]

Yeah, a couple dead prostitutes away from Patrick Bateman if you ask me…

[yankeesarelove]

I read this article and was like, I would literally never want to be his friend. Kiernan on the other hand sounds like a delight.

[jarellano89]

What do you think a night out with the Culkin brothers would be like?

[agentsoup]

Each anecdote is more bonkers than the next. The Yale-Pacino story is my favorite though.

[silverstarry]

While I was reading this interview, I kept thinking WOW and then there was something to top it in the next paragraph.

[maryhurt]

I kept thinking how in the fuck was he able to pull all those insanities and have no one stop him. No one said "no" at some point with the yale-al pacine thing? It makes me so damn curious

[syvlie0o0]

He is a white man...

[moonsenorita]

Kieran's quote is my favorite.

"[Jeremy] said something to me like, ‘I’m worried that people might think that the show is a comedy.’ And I said, ‘I think the show is a comedy.’ He thought I was kidding.”

[yankeesarelove]

I saw a tweet that compared Succession to Arrested Development and the comedy aspect clicked immediately for me then.

[veep_throat]

This is a slightly better comparison than being compared to got and parks n rec (don’t even know what went on in this persons mind to say this) but :////

[ebenetwo]

It rly is Arrested Development but with a GOT-severity excellent theme song

[maeir]

the part about taking the kendall character seriously and not reading succession at all as a bone-dry satire but entirely as a tragedy/drama is a scream