Alan Ruck (‘Succession’)

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🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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For the first 30 years of his career, Alan Ruck (2023 Emmy nominee for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series) was sure he would always be remembered as Ferris Bueller’s sad best friend. Then ‘Succession’ came along and changed everything. In this episode, Ruck shares his thoughts on the end of ‘Succession,’ including what lies ahead for Connor and Willa’s marriage, the story behind filming that “virtual dinner” with Brian Cox, and why creator Jesse Armstrong made the right decision to quit while he was ahead. The actor also reveals why he asked for his character to be killed off in Season 2 and how the role he was waiting his entire career for has forever altered his professional legacy.

This episode was originally published on June 6th, 2023.

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0:00.0	This is the Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilson from The Daily Beast. It's October. The
0:10.1	Writer Strike is officially over, and we are currently gearing up for the return of this show with
0:15.2	all new episodes very soon. But this week, we are continuing our series of episodes with guests
0:20.3	who are nominated at the
0:21.6	Emmy Awards, which were supposed to happen this past month but have since been pushed to January.
0:26.6	Today we are revisiting the really fun conversation I had with first-time nominee Alan Ruck,
0:32.9	just after the series finale of Succession aired back in May. Up top, Alan and I got into a very spoilery conversation about how that show ended,
0:41.4	both for his character Connor Roy and the rest of the Roy clan.
0:45.1	So if you are somehow not cut up after a summer with very little new TV to watch,
0:49.6	I suggest you do that now.
0:50.9	We also talked about the very strange arc of Alan's career, from his
0:55.2	breakthrough role as Cameron Fry in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, to the career renaissance that
1:00.1	has come as a result of succession. As he tells me, he's very glad creator Jesse Armstrong
1:05.4	ignored his request to be killed off after season two. This is a really wonderful conversation with a great actor who will hopefully be getting
1:13.1	back to work soon once the actor's strike is resolved.
1:16.6	Here's me with the great Alan Ruck.
1:18.6	I actually did not watch it Sunday night because we had some stuff going on, just family
1:24.7	stuff, and it got to be late, and it was was like I don't want to do that now.
1:28.8	So I woke up Monday morning and like at 8 o'clock in the morning I watched the show.
1:36.2	And I was I was messed up all day.
1:39.3	Yeah, it was tough.
1:40.9	I mean, I just got the blues pretty hard.
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