That Stunning ‘Succession’ Emotional Set Piece Was Shot as a Single 27-Minute Take
thewrap.comNote: The following contains spoilers for “Succession” Season 4, Episode 3During this week’s behind-the-scenes look at “Succession,” actor Kieran Culkin and executive producer and director Mark Mylod broke down how they shot “Connor’s Wedding,” the pivotal third episode of season 4 which revolves around the Roy family’s reaction to the surprise death of Logan (Brian Cox).
Specifically, Mylod revealed that the scene in which the Roy kids first get a call from Tom was shot in one long, unbroken 27-minute take.“In the planning of the shots, it felt to me like the camera had to be almost sadistically voyeuristic,” Mylod recalled. “It had to stay really close without kind of taking its eye off them because every time we cut away from the siblings it seemed to let them off the hook.
So we worked on this idea of how could we keep the action as fluid as possible so that it’s unflinching.” Culkin noted that it “felt like the most exciting episode we’d shot because it moves in real-time.”According to Culkin, the episode’s scenes on the boat were shot over the course of five or six days, but they shot the sequence with the phone call from Tom and the kids telling Shiv and Connor as a long, nearly half-hour unbroken take.“As it turns out, it’s like a 27-minute long scene,” Culkin said.
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