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Saturday Night Live personality Bowen Yang has shared a story about Succession star Jeremy Strong and his famous commitment to staying in character. 

The Brisbane, Australia-born entertainer, 32, opened up about seeing the 44-year-old actor, who plays Kendall Roy on the HBO hit, as he walked onto the set of the series Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens while remaining in character as the morose billionaire media heir.

The Saturday Night Live personality spoke about the encounter on his podcast Las Culturistas Wednesday, saying that Strong wandered onto the set of the show and into its production office, asking for directions to the restroom.

'The most recent season of Nora From Queens shot at the same studio as this season of Succession,' Yang, who plays the role of Edmund on the comedy. 'The Nora From Queens production office was pretty close to the Succession stages and their production office, and as we famously know, Jeremy Strong is a Method actor.'

Yang said 'at one point,' Strong made his way into the office 'and says, "Excuse me, do you know where the bathroom is?"'

'And then someone in the office is like, "Yeah, it's just down the hall to the left." He goes, "Thank you so much" and he leaves.'

Yang said that Strong subsequently left and 10 minutes later, a Succession production assistant entered the office and asked about the actor's whereabouts.

The PA 'goes, "Hi, was Jeremy just in here?"' Yang said. 'And they were like, "Yeah he was. He went to the bathroom." And then this PA goes, "Did he ask where it was? Did he come here to ask you where the bathroom was?"

'They were like, "Yeah, why?" and the PA says, "He has a scene today where he has to ask someone where the bathroom is."'

Yang said of the actor's commitment to his roles: 'I think that is Method to such a ridiculous degree that he must be in on the joke,' adding that he subscribes to 'the idea that Jeremy Strong has a sense of play and irony.'

Strong's hyperfocused commitment to his craft has been well documented amid his success on the HBO drama the past five years.

In a key scene in the first season of Succession — in which his character is involved in a late night car wreck, in which the vehicle he was in careened into a lake — he had assistants drench him with ice water to amplify the reality of the morose situation.

The show's executive producer/director Mark Mylod told IndieWire in 2018 that Strong had ice water bucked dumped atop his head during the already-grueling shoot.