NEW YORK — When she was first approached about playing Siobhan "Shiv" Roy, the only daughter of a ruthless but ailing media tycoon in HBO's "Succession," Sarah Snook was apprehensive of the project despite its obvious pedigree.
As a performer on the rise, thanks to a string of award-winning film and television roles in Australia and a well-received turn in the 2015 biopic "Steve Jobs," Snook was wary of being marginalized in a show that, at first glance, seemed to be about "a bunch of white men in business."
"Do I want to be a prop in this story that doesn't focus on me at all?" she recalled recently at a cafe in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, near the apartment where she lives while filming "Succession." "I read the pilot and went, 'I want to watch this, but I don't know if I want to be in it.'"
