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“The first words that sprang to mind are shit, what, no, bitch,” says Snook, launching into Shiv’s rambling speech. “Along with the words totally and unprepared.” Seated next to her are the actors who play her loving siblings: Kieran Culkin and Jeremy Strong . They’re peering at their onscreen sister from behind sunglasses; a camera zooms in, capturing their pronounced disinterest in close-up: Roman bored, Kendall oddly distrait.
By season two, Succession’s slime puppies had caught on: Roman Roy fan-cams, soundtracked by the cutely brash rapper Flo Milli, made the rounds on Instagram; Logan Roy became a meme; the comedian Demi Adejuyigbe made a viral song, “Kiss From Daddy,” poking fun at the show’s dinner party of daddy issues. Succession doesn’t do Game of Thrones ratings, but to an audience of Emmy voters, the extremely online, and the extremely with taste, it’s the best show on TV.
Succession filming at a Tuscany estate called La Foce. Photo: Graeme Hunter/HBO/Graeme Hunter A week later, Culkin sits under a pergola shaded with wisteria, drinking an Italian soda. He’s wearing a white Hanes T-shirt and shorts he fished out from the bottom of a drawer. “I keep thinking, I’ve gotta get the number of the guy that made [Roman’s] suit so I can go get one,” he says. “Then I don’t because it’s probably expensive and I don’t have a production paying for it.
When the cast members shoot in New York, they have a Succession supper club — restaurant dinners with three or four of them, whoever’s around. Abroad, there’s more time for impromptu hangs. In the lobby of their hotel, I run into Snook, Abbass, and Winters returning from a bougie supermarket with snacks for their rooms. Another day, I see Braun and newcomer Dasha Nekrasova, the actress and host of the podcast Red Scare, chilling side by side in Siena’s main plaza.
“Not that you can’t have a professional relationship with friends,” Armstrong continues. “But I ask them to do a lot, emotionally and creatively. There’s an amount of fuel in the relationships that we could potentially have that is better used up in our writing for them.” Armstrong is close to the writers — in between Siena and Pienza, he goes to Rome with executive producers Tony Roche, Lucy Prebble, and the finale’s director, Mark Mylod, to attend the England-Ukraine match.
Setting the third season’s final two episodes in Tuscany is its own joke. “I don’t know how much of a social signifier it is to Americans — anybody who can go abroad is really rich — but [Tuscany] has this particular flavor for the English upper class,” Armstrong says. “Some call it Chiantishire in a slightly sickening way.” Emily FitzRoy, a ritzy holiday planner who specializes in Italian vacations, was brought in to ensure the Villa Cetinale party was realistically luxurious.
Snook makes Shiv both steely and playful, but underneath there is always a simmering uncertainty — as though she doesn’t want people to know what she’s feeling or even that she’s feeling. “Because we had such a gap between [seasons] two and three, and also because there was more of a public knowledge of the show, people had put up versions [online] of their own Shiv or parodies,” Snook tells me.
I mention that Braun called Strong Succession’s “concierge,” the one always excited by finding new places to wine and dine. How does he square that with keeping his distance? He shifts in his seat. “No, listen, I mean … Thanks, Nick.” He blushes. He insists, ultimately, that it’s different. During production, he prefers keeping himself — and by extension, Kendall — in the straitjacket of detachment. He thinks it helps.
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