“My parents separated on and off for most of my life,” Strong explains. Strong read Armageddon Time during a rare quiet spell after season three of Succession wrapped in July 2021. Jeremy Strong in Tom Ford shirt and jeans, Berluti jacket, Castro Smith cuff. Because what it’s really about is, when I go back to work on Wednesday, can I forget all of that? The creative work is a sacrosanct thing that you have to protect.” “While it’s incredible to be honored, you have to treat them as incidental things. “And the drama of all that I feel is just noise.” The awards, too, are noise. “I’m just an actor trying to work hard and take risks,” he says. “But it’s very unremarkable and is really just about concentration.” He feels his creative techniques are wildly misconstrued, due in no small part to a New Yorker profile that instantly went viral in December 2021 and has followed him everywhere - including here - though he is determined to make this the last time he engages on it. “There’s a lot of mythologizing about my process,” Strong says. It’s crap.” Cox did not mention Strong by name he didn’t have to. Less than a week after this breakfast interview, the Scotsman will tell a Toronto Film Festival audience: “I don’t hold a lot of the American shit, having to have a ‘religious experience’ every time you play a part. Among the most openly dismissive of his immersive acting technique is Cox himself. Strong is aware of his reputation for artistic zealotry - and to the scoffing that zealotry may elicit, even from his peers. “I’m blown into a million pieces,” Kendall tells his siblings, and you believe it. Last we saw him, Kendall was curled up on a dirt driveway in Italy, confessing to his part in the drowning death of a waiter at his sister’s wedding. The day after that, Strong and his family, who were staying in an Airbnb near the Sunset Tower, will travel to Europe, where he’ll return to the Roy family saga. Both will lose to Squid Game‘s Lee Jung-jae, but the show will pick up four awards, including Matthew Macfadyen’s for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series and the nod for outstanding drama series. Three days later, he will face off at the Emmys with his Succession co-star Brian Cox, who plays Logan, for outstanding lead actor in a drama. This is a particularly busy time for Strong. Unlike Logan, Irving genuinely seems to want the best for his two sons. Like Succession patriarch Logan Roy, Irving suffers from an explosive temper and an inability to communicate. Strong plays the boy’s dad, Irving Graff, a Jewish boiler repairman from Queens whom Gray based on his father. In Armageddon Time, the dynamic is reversed: 14-year-old Banks Repeta plays the socially awkward, perpetual-fuckup son, a character Gray based on himself. On Succession, Strong plays a socially awkward, perpetual-fuckup son to a domineering dad. I’m in the middle of filming now, so anything that separates ‘you’ from ‘them’ is not useful.” (The HBO show is currently filming its fourth season.) He also avoids referring to his character by name. Strong always keeps the hat on during production. The hat, he later explains, belongs to Kendall Roy - the Succession character that turned him from a lesser-known supporting actor into an Emmy-winning leading man. Strong is dressed down in a khaki green cardigan and matching T-shirt, a brown baseball cap pulled snugly over his head. Jeremy Strong Photographed By David Needleman
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