Kendall Roy finally got his seat at the table with dad. It could be said that after being rejected in the award of the shows since The succession‘s debut in 2018, Jeremy Strong has done with his first Emmy Award nomination for playing the f*those-up the middle child of a family of the average of the media manipulators and play it really, really well. The actor is nominated for outstanding lead actor in a drama series alongside Brian Cox, who portrays his father, Logan Roy.
Did award it just shows that it doesn’t matter Kendall?
The first season of The succession won the series several Emmy nominations, including outstanding drama series, but it was strangely non-recognition of the casting, as though the series was good in general, except for . . . the action? Other award shows, however, doled out praise for the cast-Kieran Culkin earned a nomination for the Golden Globe for best actor, Matthew Macfadyen I have a Critics’ Choice nom, Brian Cox won the Golden Globe for best actor— but they were more difficult to achieve for the Strong. There is No doubt that his performance was on par with that of their peers, so that gave simply shows that it doesn’t matter Kendall?
Maybe you just wanted to see him sweat.
When audiences meet Kendall in the first season, who apparently has it all together as he begins to imagine himself at the helm of his family Waystar Royco conglomerate, but in reality, he is no more equipped than Romy and Michele asking for the “business woman special.” Kendall is located in the outskirts of the family business (and family, for that matter), after a coup attempt, and his personal life is unleashed on his struggle with substance abuse gets worse. The first season ends with a literal shock, and Kendall need for Logan’s intervention more than ever. Then things get good.
In The succession‘s second of the season, Kendall is a shell of his former self . . . that it was rather the shell. He relentlessly follows Logan, even when it’s to their own detriment, and apparently he has abandoned all aspirations of autonomy, both personal and professional. He lingers in the background of a dysfunctional family during the conversations, and he raps in a large company celebration in Logan’s honor. The spectators write Kendall out of viewers who have forgotten the series is like Shakespeare as they come.
The season two final offers an amazing twist: Kendall refuses to be the fall guy for decades of cover-up in the company and instead places the blame squarely on Logan, which is where it belongs. The scene, which takes place in a huge press conference, it is so satisfying to watch, and not because you’re necessarily cheering for Kendall, but because I hate Logan more. Strong is sober and cooling performance of your tread body language, the way in which the word “but” that cuts through the air, crushing the chips — A Moment ago.
“We knew very early in the form of the season for Kendall, from where it begins, that it is in this entirely submissive, very beaten dog, you just report to your father. It felt like a real way to us, while we could honor all the different stages of that journey,” said the creator of the series of Jesse Armstrong in a post-episode extra material, is shown above.
For Strong, in the meantime, the season more it seemed so exciting for the movie as it was for viewers to see. “It’s a last-minute buzzer-beater moment,” he said Deadline at the beginning of this month. “A somersault flip that has been a long time coming.”
