Jeremy Strong 'Sometimes Lost Touch with Joy' Playing "Succession"'s Kendall Roy: 'It F---ed Me Up' Staff, 10/15/2024 In a revealing interview, Jeremy Strong reflects on the emotional toll of portraying Kendall Roy in HBO's "Succession," admitting it "f---ed me up." While he acknowledges the show's impact, he’s ready to move on, sharing insights into his next role as Roy Cohn and the potential for spinoff stories. "Kendall's struggle was difficult to carry for seven years," Strong admitted
Succession's Kendall Roy may go down as the most iconic character of Jeremy Strong's career, but playing the power-hungry businessman was a different story for the actor.
Strong, 45, who played the heir apparent to Logan Roy (Brian Cox) for all four seasons of the hit HBO series, admitted that the character "f---ed me up" in a new interview with The Times.
"I sometimes lost touch with joy," he said of life after Succession, which concluded in May 2023, as he's "rediscovered play."
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Still, Strong knows that the hit series -- which dominated the awards season, picking up five Emmy Awards wins and four Golden Globes for its fourth and final season -- was "an incalculable gift."
"The material [was] a banquet. So I miss that," he told the outlet. "But Kendall's struggle was difficult to carry for seven years. And there's just so much more I want to do."
The chapter is securely closed on Kendall for Strong, as he said of the possibility of a spinoff involving his character, "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."
The actor -- who just took on the role of Donald Trump's lawyer Roy Cohn in The Apprentice alongside Sebastian Stan -- shared a similar sentiment with PEOPLE in June.
"I'm sure there's a desire for more [Succession]... But I think in terms of the role that I played, he came to his terminal point," Strong said at the 2024 Tony Awards. "So for me, that's something that is very happily put to rest."
The one character that could be worthy of exploring further in Culkin's eyes is Nicholas Braun's Greg Hirsch. "Cousin Greg would make a good spinoff show, I gotta be honest. That would be kind of fun."
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