
“If this had happened when I was younger, I would be dead by now,” says Alan Ruck, musing on the mega-success of Succession, probably the most critically-acclaimed, award-adorned, audience-speculating show of our era that doesn’t involve dragons.
“I might have become very interested in substances and so forth because I would have had the money. Maybe God or the universe was protecting me, saying ‘you’re not ready’.”