- A whole bunch of props used within the present “Succession” have been auctioned off.
- The well-known Burberry bag ridiculed by Tom Wambsgans fetched $18,750.
- Listed here are another gadgets from the present that made their means into personal collections.
Sometime quickly, somebody shall be strolling down the road proudly carrying a ludicrously capacious bag, purchased for a ludicrously capacious worth.
The voluminous Burberry tote is likely one of the most well-known props used on “Succession,” the famed HBO saga of the Roy household dynasty, and it offered at public sale Saturday for $18,750.
The present, which ran from 2018 to 2023, adopted the lives of 4 kids of patriarch Logan Roy as they fought to take over the media empire Waystar RoyCo whereas their father’s well being declined.
It usually parodied the lives of the uber-wealthy, with Logan Roy being a nod to the previous Chairman of Fox Information, Rupert Murdoch.
The lots of of things on the prop public sale are a journey by way of the present: Faux journal covers that includes the Roy household, faux sausages, and pretend bank cards used to finance the Roy’s rich way of life.
However that bag, which turned infamous when Matthew Macfadyen’s Tom Wambsgans savagely ridiculed it, wasn’t even the priciest merchandise offered from the set of the addictive drama, which can be anticipated to wash up at Monday’s Emmy Awards on the heels of its Golden Globes wins.
No, that was a set of pink index playing cards containing Roman Roy’s eulogy notes for his father’s funeral — a speech he by no means gave. Starting with, “My father Logan Roy was an amazing man,” the 4 playing cards characterize the tragic failure of Roman (Kieran Culkin) to satisfy the second. They now have a brand new life with somebody who paid $25,000 and hopefully will body them properly.
The web public sale on behalf of HBO at Heritage Auctions in Dallas, ending Saturday, introduced in a complete of $627,825 for 236 tons. The outcomes confirmed not solely that individuals liked the present, says Heritage spokesperson Robert Wilonsky, but additionally that significant objects, and never the present’s high-end “stealth” vogue, clicked most with bidders.
“On the finish of the day, it was key moments of the present that resonated with followers,” he says.
Props usually take a again seat to costumes. In any case, there isn’t any award for “greatest props” at awards exhibits like there may be for costumes, notes “Succession” prop grasp Monica Jacobs, who joined the present after the pilot episode. However prop departments go to excessive lengths to safe simply the suitable merchandise — even when it solely seems for a number of seconds.
Jacobs shared the origin tales of a number of the present’s most iconic props.
