A version of this story about Jeremy Strong first appeared in the “Emmy Hot List” issue of TheWrap’s Emmy magazine.
Sometimes Jeremy Strong rehearses, a lot. But the stage veteran didn’t want to prepare too much for the fateful confrontation that occurs between his character, Kendall Roy, and his totemic media-mogul father, Logan Roy, played by Brian Cox, aboard a yacht in the second-season finale of “Succession.”
“One of the great things about the show is the actors’ process takes primacy,” Strong said in a conversation via video conference across a continent and a half. He was in Denmark, where he has spent the pandemic with his Danish wife and kids.