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Succession star Jeremy Strong has revealed that the final scene of the iconic HBO show, could have been different.
Strong, 44, told Anderson Cooper during an interview on Tuesday night, his first since the show ended, that rather than just have his character stand at the water's edge in New York City's Battery Park, he tried to go into the water.
'I did try and go in the water. One of the incredible things about working on something for seven years... is your instincts for the thing become apart of you and are very alive. Your job is to give the writing heart and a nerve and all that stuff,' Strong said on AC360.
The final scene of the show Strong's character, Kendall Roy, coming to terms with the fact that he will never inherit his father's media empire after a board vote went against him.
Strong went on to say that it was not for him to say how the show was going to end. 'It's for Jesse Armstrong, there but for the grace of him went all of us this whole time, and his writing, and the depth of it, and his insight into human nature, he feels that people are doomed to repeat themselves,' the Boston native said.
Succession star Jeremy Strong gave his first televised interview Tuesday night on AC360 with Anderson Cooper
Strong explained that there was alternate ending to the show's now-iconic finale that was nearly filmed
The show's final scene sees a contemplative Kendall Roy being forced to come to terms with the fact that he will never be the CEO of his father's company
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The whopping 88-minute finale on Sunday evening, which concluded the hit series chronicling a billionaire media mogul and his children's struggles to take over the family company, Waystar Royco, left viewers reeling — because none of the Roy siblings won.
In the episode, Shiv Roy took one final turn against her brother Kendall, blowing up his plans to keep their late father's company and become CEO by voting to let their media empire be acquired by a Swedish tech giant, GoJo.
Strong described his sister siding with her husband ultimately as a 'capitulation' of her character in allowing the 'patriarchy' to run out victorious.
Strong said in a separate interview with the New York Times that the final scene was shot during winter in Battery Park earlier this year.
'I've never been so cold in my life. What was happening was like the ninth circle of hell, which is frozen. I couldn't feel anything,' he said.
The star didn't specifically say that the temperature prevented them from shooting the final scene with him in the water.
