Succession nearly ended in a different way… and much more tragically, when you can consider it.
In an interview with Vanity Fair following Sunday’s sequence finale — read our full recap here — star Jeremy Sturdy reveals that whereas capturing the ultimate scene of a defeated Kendall wandering via the park together with his father’s bodyguard Colin trailing shut behind, “I attempted to enter the water after we reduce. I received up from that bench and went as quick as I may over the barrier and onto the pilings, and the actor enjoying Colin raced over. I didn’t know I used to be gonna do 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 needed to die — I believe he did — or if he needed 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 soar wasn’t scripted and didn’t make the ultimate reduce, and Sturdy appreciates the way in which sequence creator Jesse Armstrong finally ended it, he says: “It’s a a lot stronger ending philosophically, and has extra integrity to what Jesse’s total very bleak imaginative and prescient is of mankind, which is that essentially, folks don’t actually change. They don’t do the spectacular, dramatic factor. As an alternative, there’s a sort 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 could’ve been onerous to do. However I believe you even really feel on a mobile degree the intention or the longing to cross that threshold. The way in which [Armstrong] leaves us with a sort of ambivalence stays true to his imaginative and prescient.”
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