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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Michael Sun

Succession’s Jeremy Strong tried to jump into a river during final scene: ‘I didn’t know I was gonna do that’

Jeremy Strong as Kendall Roy in Succession
‘The water was calling to me’: Jeremy Strong as Kendall Roy in HBO’s Succession. Photograph: HBO

Jeremy Strong tried a different, grimmer ending for his character on HBO’s hit TV show Succession, he revealed in a recent interview.

In the last shot of the series – which concluded its fourth and final season on Sunday night – a moribund Kendall Roy gazes over a river as his bodyguard Colin (Scott Nicholson) keeps watch behind him. The show then cuts to black.

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