It’s just not going to. If we don’t nurture and provide the infrastructure and the apparatus to support and engender and create another generation of writers who are deep thinkers who are grappling with the big things the way Jesse,
and Eric Roth and Amy Hertzog are grappling with the big things then then what’s left is decadence. And that’s terrifying because in our culture decadence is the last stage before collapse.On that, one the profound impact Succession has had on you, how did that journey, as you termed it, change you? Or did it?It’s forced me to walk through the fire so many times and come up against things that I thought were my limits and, and confront those limits.
Like that, actually, I’m probably not that different from Brian, he’s probably not that different from me. We’re all trying to get at the truth, and however anybody comes out of it is valid. I mean, you can’t argue with the work that he does, and I don’t think he can argue with the work that I do.Yeah, it’s complicated. You know, I listen, I work the way I work, and I don’t know how to do it any other way. I work only to try and serve the material the best I can.
“AI ain’t gonna write Succession, or Chinatown or The Godfather,” says Jeremy Strong of what’s at stake with the writers’ strike. “It’s just not going to,” the actor who brought Jesse Armstrong’s words for Kendall Roy to life adds