Succession’s Jeremy Strong shares chilling alternative ending for Kendall Roy
Succession actor Jeremy Strong has revealed that his character Kendall Roy had an alternative ending.
Fans of the HBO drama will know that Kendall Roy's dreams of taking over his father Logan's company came crashing down when his sister Shiv had a last-minute change of heart.
After Shiv and Roman anointed their big brother Ken King of Waystar at their mother's home in Barbados, Kendall was riding high.
He was so confident he would become CEO of Waystar that at the deciding board meeting he didn't even try to convince anyone he was right for the job and called Lukas Matsson's GoJo deal "bulls***".
But when the votes were six for and six against the deal, it was down to Shiv to cast the deciding vote.
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Kendall Roy's ending was heartbreaking but not as dramatic as Jeremy Strong envisioned (HBO)After a tense showdown in an adjacent meeting room, Shiv sided with GoJo and saw her husband Tom Wambsgans become CEO.
In the end Kendall was left distraught and with no purpose to his life.
He walked through a New York park and to the river followed by his father’s bodyguard Colin.
But while in the show Ken stopped short of trying to kill himself, method actor Strong reveals he had another ending in mind.
"I tried to go into the water after we cut," he told Vanity Fair.
"I got up from that bench and went as fast as I could over the barrier and onto the pilings, and the actor playing Colin raced over.
"I didn’t know I was gonna do that, and he didn’t know, but he raced over and stopped me.
"They don’t do the spectacular, dramatic thing.
"Instead, there’s a kind of doom loop that we’re all stuck in, and Kendall is trapped in this sort of silent scream with Colin there as both a bodyguard and a jailer."
Logan, played by veteran actor Brian Cox, was killed off in the third episode of the fourth and final series in an explosive twist.
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While his family gathered for Connor Roy's wedding, viewers watched on as Logan died after collapsing in the bathroom while onboard a private jet heading to Sweden.
Tom and Shiv are united in the final scenes (HBO)The fight was then on to take control of his business empire.
Spoiler alert, in a huge twist during the season finale, none of the Roy siblings won.
In the episode, the family were getting ready to have the final Waystar Royco board vote on the merger with Lukas Matsson's company GoJo.
Shiv Roy took one last turn against her brother Kendall Roy as she destroyed his plans to keep their late father's company and become CEO by voting in favour of GoJo acquiring the business.
Shiv's husband Tom Wambsgans triumphed as he was named as the new chief executive, with cousin Greg Hirsch by his side.
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