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It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn. There are a lot of funny and strange characters on

the show. He hit HBO drama, succession. For my money though, none of them funnier or

stranger than Connor Roy. He's the oldest of the Roy children on the show, half brother

to the three younger ones. And Connor is kind of a doofus. He falls in love with an escort.

He bank rolls her disastrous off-broadway play. He runs for president and never at any

point that he earn even an ounce of respect from a single family member. And that probably

isn't a coincidence because Connor is the only sibling with no interest in running the Roy

family business. My guest Alan Rock plays Connor Roy. He's so great, funny and weird when

the scene calls for it, but also behind the bluster and the rants about biodynamic wine

and tax policy. We see a vulnerability. It makes Connor weirdly one of the most relatable

characters on the show. Now you might know Alan Rock from Ferris

Bueller's Day Off. He played Cameron, the best friend with the Ferrari. He also had

parts in movies like Speed, Twister and Cheaper by the Dozen and in TV shows like Spin

City and the Exorcist. Now before we get into my conversation with Alan Rock, let's hear

something from succession. His character Connor Roy is running for president, but the

campaign never takes off and in this scene he's at a party with the rest of the family.

Greg, his cousin, asks him how he's polling.

Nice, what are you out now? Solid, still holding. Yeah, 1%.

It's just the fear is in these last days, it could get squeezed. Squeeze down from one

because that's the lowest number. No, you know, decimals. You know, they're saying that

I could need to get aggressive in certain media markets because both sides are trying

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