‘I Don’t Think He’s OK — He Has Nobody’: Kieran Culkin on Roman’s Broken Stitches in ‘Succession’ Finale (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comKate Aurthur editor SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from “With Open Eyes,” the series finale of HBO’s “Succession,” now streaming on Max.
During their cover story for Variety’s Actors on Actors, Claire Danes — who’s starred in a number of TV shows, including “Homeland” and FX’s recent limited series “Fleishman Is in Trouble” — asked Kieran Culkin whether he’d ever done episodic television before “Succession.” The answer, even though Culkin has been acting since he was a child, was no.
Danes laughed, and said, “So you just thought, ‘No, I’m just going to do the best one, and start right there.’” “Then retire, that was the plan!” Culkin replied.
That conversation took place in April, five weeks before the end of “Succession.” In the series finale of Jesse Armstrong’s Emmy-winning drama, Roman (Culkin), who throughout the show’s arc could go from impish extremism to vulnerability in an instant, ended up alone at a bar drinking a martini.
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