Tag: Kieran Culkin
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The Best Episode From Each Season of ‘Succession’
Succession was almost instantly recognized as one of the greatest drama shows of all time. HBO’s groundbreaking satire about the interior politics of a media empire family and its legacy wrapped its fantastic four-season run earlier this year with the excellent finale, “With Open Eyes.” Succession follows the legendary business tycoon Logan Roy (Brian Cox)…
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Sarah Snook Insisted on ‘Succession’ Fight Rehearsal: ‘I’m Not Going to Keep My Mouth Shut When I’m Pregnant’
The messy showdown in the series finale of “Succession” between the Roy siblings as they jockeyed for the final grab of power over their late father’s empire was almost even more physical.In a new interview with Variety, Sarah Snook (Shiv Roy) talked about how the boardroom fight scene involving Shiv, Roman (Kieran Culkin), and Kendall…
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‘Succession’ leads 2023 Emmys nominations on 27
Awards ceremony currently scheduled for September 18.Succession has earned 27 nominations in the 2023 Emmys race, followed by fellow HBO Max shows The Last of Us on 24 and The White Lotus on 23, while Apple TV’s Ted Lasso earned 21.HBO Max – which Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav recently reduced to a tile…
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The Third Culkin Brother Has a Dark Side You Might Not Know About
Any “child star” that’s trying to be taken seriously is inevitably going to face challenges, and those challenges are intensified for any member of a famous Hollywood family. Considering these pressures, the expectations placed upon Rory Culkin may have seemed impossible to overcome. Macaulay Culkin was a generational icon thanks to the success of Home…
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Michael Cera Says He Almost Married Aubrey Plaza Just to Call Her an ‘Ex-Wife’
Michael Cera was almost Mr. Aubrey Plaza.The “Life and Beth” actor revealed to Rolling Stone that he almost tied the knot with “Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World” co-star Aubrey Plaza during production on the 2010 Edgar Wright film.“We were driving through Vegas,” Cera said. “The idea was to then get a divorce right away, so…
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Kieran Culkin Still Hasn’t Figured Out What Was Going on Between Roman and Gerri
One of the most popular (and painfully unresolved) storylines on “Succession” was Roman Roy and Gerri Kellman’s tendency to mix business mentorship and Machiavellian scheming with kinky, degrading phone sex. The uneasy partnership between Kieran Culkin’s traumatized nepo baby and J. Smith-Cameron’s hyper-competent general counsel was the subject of endless speculation during the show’s run…
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Kieran Culkin Felt Like He Was Seven Years Old Acting Opposite Brian Cox in ‘Succession’: He’s a ‘Scary Guy’
Kieran Culkin felt like a “child” filming “Succession.”The former child star admitted during Variety’s Actors on Actors with Claire Danes that playing Roman Roy in “Succession” opposite Brian Cox’s patriarch Logan Roy made him feel like he was seven years old again.“I realize I’m doing it right now for some reason,” Culkin said. “Whenever I…
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‘Succession’s Finale Was the Happiest Ending the Roys Could’ve Had
Editor’s note: The below contains spoilers for the series finale of Succession.Let’s face it: the final episode of Succession, a series famously modeled after King Lear and other Shakespearian tragedies, was hardly going to give the Roy siblings their happy ever afters. A scenario in which Kendall (Jeremy Strong) fulfills his lifelong CEO dreams, Shiv…
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The Succession Finale Introduced One Last Wild Family Tradition, And It’s The Best Yet
This post contains spoilers for the series finale of “Succession.”The Roy family likes to play games, and more often than not, they’re games you don’t want to lose. The family’s traditions are as enduring as they are cruel, often mentioned with a casualness that lets us know they’ve been baked into family time for decades.…
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‘Succession’ Review: A Provocative Series Finale Hammers Home Hard Truths — Spoilers
[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Succession” Season 4, Episode 10, “With Open Eyes” — the series finale.]Gerri was right.Back before the Living+ pitch, when Roman (Kieran Culkin) gets a little trigger happy with the firing gun, he poses the possibility of cutting ties with his sister’s godmother, aka Gerri (J. Smith-Cameron), aka…