And Snook is not going to tell me any spoilers, except that the Roy family dynamic has completely changed. ‘She’s the kind of actor who can do anything… You never have to hit the narrative too much because you know she can do it with her face.’ ‘Sarah is highly, highly virtuosic,’ says Succession writer Lucy Prebble (the British co-creator of I Hate Suzie and other great things). Sarah’s face is a mask of shock, nausea, terrible rage and the effort of controlling it all.’ ![]() ‘Sarah has this wonderful gift of keeping a tight lid on the volcanic emotions underneath,’ says Macfadyen, ‘so to watch her trying to keep that lid on is riveting… I think especially brilliantly when she sees Tom and Logan briefly connect at the end of the last episode. The last shot was of Shiv looking broken before she gathered herself. When Shiv then saw her father pat her husband Tom (Matthew Macfadyen) on the shoulder, it became clear that she had been betrayed by the one person she trusted. Shiv provided the perfect postscript: ‘We just walked in on Mom and Dad f-king us.’ ![]() When they arrived to confront him, they were thwarted by Logan, who announced that they no longer had the power to do so – their mother had sold them out. Their plan was to use their supermajority to stop the sale, and run the company together. Season three ended on a cliffhanger, with Shiv and her siblings showing an unprecedented united front to scupper the deal their father was about to make: to finally sell off Waystar Royco. ‘We knew from the read-through of the last episode that it would be the final series however the way the episode ends, a number of the cast felt that it was left somewhat ambiguous,’ is all she’ll say. There are, she hints, some tasty surprises to look forward to. When I meet Snook, she is about to finish filming that season, after nine months spent mostly in New York but also in ‘an exotic location’. ‘The end has always been kind of present in my mind.’ ‘I’ve never thought this could go on for ever,’ its (British) creator Jesse Armstrong said last month. The first three seasons accrued 48 Emmy nominations and 13 wins, including two nominations for Snook.īut season four, which begins on Monday March 27, will be the last. Succession is compelling because it’s so wildly well written, and because the characters are so bad and the actors so good. Shiv is the only daughter of Logan Roy (Brian Cox), the craggy, brutal, big-cardigan-wearing billionaire owner of US media and entertainment conglomerate Waystar Royco, who’s spent almost 30 episodes of the expletive-laden, Shakespearean drama winding his children up and playing them off against each other. First we need to discuss that terrible TV series she’s in. ![]() (Last week she revealed at the Succession premiere in New York that the couple are expecting their first child at the time of our interview Snook is still keeping that personal plot twist to herself). She married Dave Lawson, her best friend. They were the boots she wore to her wedding, two years ago, in her garden in Brooklyn. ‘But Sarah’s performance is so layered – she manages to bring such vulnerability to the part, it makes the character and her relationships much richer and more interesting.’Īnd here is Sarah Snook, on a sunny winter’s day, as herself – sitting in a low-key café eating banana bread, cheery and open, wearing a T-shirt and black trousers, her hair shoved into a baseball cap, her feet in a pair of ancient Blundstones which, she shows me, have a hole in them. In the wrong hands she could seem like a stone-cold bitch,’ says co-executive producer Georgia Pritchett, also one of the show’s team of writers. ‘I actually think Shiv is an incredibly difficult part to play. She’s ‘Shiv f-king Roy’ and she embodies one of the delightfully unpredictable elements that run through the heart of Succession – the fact that despite being a woman, she doesn’t turn out to have a heart of gold. What’s so lovable about a character whom even one of her creators has called ‘a flawed, monstrous nightmare’? It’s her pale hair, her razor-sharp retorts, her sidelong looks, her stealth-wealth wardrobe, her strangely expressive face and manipulative ways. ‘You lucky bitch,’ said my friend, when I mentioned I was going to New York to interview Sarah Snook, who plays her in the hit HBO series Succession.
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