Note: The following contains spoilers for “Succession” Season 4, Episode 3
“Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong and executive producer and director Mark Mylod praised Sarah Snook’s performance in “Connor’s Wedding,” the pivotal third episode of season 4, which deals with the surprise death of Logan (Brian). Revolves around the reaction of the family. Cox).
Asked by fellow “Succession” podcast host Kara Swisher about the moment in the episode that hit them hardest, both Armstrong and Mylod agreed it was when Siobhan (Snook) got to say her last words to Logan. Kept on the phone for.
“Up to that point, I was emotionally involved, but I wasn’t kicked in the head in the way that I expected, especially from reading the words,” Mylod said. “Sarah picks up the phone and then Jesse and I were just in pieces, I think, as I remember, he was watching the first take. It was just fantastic. And Sarah’s just — she has that Meryl Streep thing where You say “cut” and she says “how was that? you want another? She’s immediately out of it again and it almost feels like an insult because she just listened to you and then she’s completely back to being Sarah.
Armstrong agreed, calling the moment “quite cathartic”.
“I don’t want to see it. But every time, it happens emotionally — her voice cracks and she realizes and she transitions the fastest into this public one — it’s a nightmare quality,” he said. Said. “And for people who have bad news, that thing, the sudden end of the world, it happens almost more quickly to her than to anybody else. And the way she reacts to it, just wants to deny it, And then kind of jovial and then angry, it’s — I find it very moving.
one in behind the scenes featureSnook talked about his experience starring in the episode.
“It’s not healthy to be in that frame of mind for two weeks at a time,” she said. “I found that it was better for me to take it out completely so that it could still be fresh because for me living it means it’s dull and that’s not good.”
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