Jeremy Strong might be more Kendall Roy than even the cast of Succession would like. A new profile of the actor in The New Yorker focuses almost exclusively on the intense, sometimes questionable lengths Strong has gone to for roles in his career and as Kendall on the hit HBO show.
“To me, the stakes are life and death,” Strong explains early on about his breakout, Emmy Award-winning role. “I take him as seriously as I take my own life.” That attitude means, the profile’s writer Michael Schulman notes, Strong’s inability to legitimately see the darkly satirical show as a comedy.
