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Jeremy Strong Isn’t Sure He Knows Who He Is: ‘It’s a Myth That I’m This Humorless Person’

After “Succession,” says the actor, “I felt a profound sense of, Was this the event of my life?”

In 2021, a much-discussed profile in The New Yorkerdepicted Strong as — depending on your point of view — a deeply dedicated and ambitious artist or a self-serious pain in the butt. Strong (left) with Rafe Spall, Hamish Linklater, Steve Carell, Jeffry Griffin and Ryan Gosling in “The Big Short” (2015). … It is his insistence, his utter conviction, that he is going to say what he has to say and that the audience, by God, is going to listen.” This is the key part: “It is the very same quality that makes a star actor, a great public speaker, and a lunatic.” Do you recognize yourself in what Miller is pointing to there?

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