[Editor’s Note: The following story contains spoilers for the series finale of “Succession.”]“Succession” showrunner Jesse Armstrong may not have been worried to end the Emmy-winning series, but he was “terrified” over lead actor Jeremy Strong’s Method acting dedication to the series finale.Armstrong revealed during NPR’s “Fresh Air” that Strong’s nearly jumping into the Hudson River for the film’s final scene — in a take that did not make it into the episode — caused alarm on set.“I was terrified.
I was terrified that he might fall in and be injured,” Armstrong said of a moment improvised by Strong in which he stood on the railing and looked down into the water.
“He didn’t look like he was going to jump in.
But once he climbed over that barrier, when you film, there are generally a lot of health and safety assessments made, and that was not our plan that day.”Strong detailed how co-star Colin (Scott Nicholson…
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