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Jeremy Strong Says ‘Succession’ Role ‘F—ed Me Up’ and ‘I Don’t Miss It’: ‘I Sometimes Lost Touch With Joy’
Jeremy Strong says playing Kendall Roy for four seasons of HBO's "Succession" did not leave him in a mindset he wants to revisit.
Jeremy Strong said in a recent interview with The Times of London that playing Kendall Roy on HBO’s “ Succession ” for four seasons “fucked me up.” The actor won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for the role, but he has no interest in returning to the world of “Succession” because he “sometimes lost touch with joy” while having to stay in Kendall’s tortured mindset. The New York Times Magazine noted that many actors, be it James Gandolfini (“The Sopranos”) or Alan Alda (“M*A*S*H”), struggled to move their careers beyond an iconic TV role. “Roy Cohn, you can’t overstate his influence in our country, his legacy of the denial of reality and certain things that he imparted to Donald Trump.
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