Succession nearly ended in a different way… and much more tragically, if you happen to can imagine it.
In an interview with Self-importance Honest following Sunday’s collection finale — learn our full recap right here — star Jeremy Sturdy reveals that whereas capturing the ultimate scene of a defeated Kendall wandering by way of the park together with his father’s bodyguard Colin trailing shut behind, “I attempted to enter the water after we reduce. I bought up from that bench and went as quick as I might over the barrier and onto the pilings, and the actor taking part in Colin raced over. I didn’t know I used to be gonna try this, and he didn’t know, however he raced over and stopped me.”
Sturdy provides that “I don’t know whether or not in that second I felt that Kendall simply wished to die — I feel he did — or if he wished to be saved by primarily a proxy of his father.” He additionally describes Kendall’s defeat on the Waystar board vote as “an extinction degree occasion for this character. There’s no getting back from that.”
The tried bounce wasn’t scripted and didn’t make the ultimate reduce, and Sturdy appreciates the way in which collection creator Jesse Armstrong finally ended it, he says: “It’s a a lot stronger ending philosophically, and has extra integrity to what Jesse’s general very bleak imaginative and prescient is of mankind, which is that basically, folks don’t actually change. They don’t do the spectacular, dramatic factor. As a substitute, there’s a form of doom loop that we’re all caught in, and Kendall is trapped on this form of silent scream with Colin there as each a bodyguard and a jailer.”
Sturdy additionally admits that he doesn’t know if Kendall “would’ve had the braveness to really go in that water, as a result of my God, it will’ve been arduous to do. However I feel you even really feel on a mobile degree the intention or the longing to cross that threshold. The best way [Armstrong] leaves us with a form of ambivalence stays true to his imaginative and prescient.”
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