Interview: Kieran Culkin (Succession)
Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
He'll be the first to credit the writers of Succession for Roman Roy and every other irresistibly terrible member of that family— but over three seasons of the HBO drama series, Culkin has also been able to make the character his own. Here he talks to Rebecca Ford about returning to shoot season four, why Succession made him want to stick with acting, and where in the world Alan Ruck's Emmy nomination is.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the award season podcast from Vanity Fair. |
| 0:05.0 | It's such an honor to present this next award. |
| 0:08.0 | And here are the nominees. |
| 0:10.0 | The Oscar goes to. |
| 0:12.0 | And the Oscar goes to. |
| 0:14.0 | And I can't deny the fact that you like me right now. |
| 0:18.0 | You like me. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm the King of the World. |
| 0:21.0 | There's a mistake. |
| 0:23.0 | Moonlight, you guys won Best Picture. |
| 0:30.0 | I am Katie Rich and I'm here for today's interview episode with Rebecca Ford. |
| 0:40.0 | Hi, Katie. |
| 0:41.0 | Rebecca, you got the pleasure of talking to who I think might have been the breakout star of last season of succession, |
| 0:48.0 | although it's really hard to say because every single member of that cast gets a great moment. |
| 0:52.0 | And when it comes to deciding who to feature on the show, it was like, oh, we all have our favorite. |
| 0:56.0 | But you got to talk to Karen Culkin. |
| 0:58.0 | How did that go? |
| 0:59.0 | I want to say he's my favorite actor on the show. |
| 1:02.0 | It's hard to say that because they are, as you're saying, so wonderful. |
| 1:06.0 | But I just think that character of Roman Roy could have been such a character and just seemed really unrealistic. |
| 1:12.0 | And he's able to bring so many layers to it. |
| 1:15.0 | And it's just one of the weirdest characters on TV, but just feels real enough. |
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