4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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The third season of HBO’s award-winning black comedy “Succession” was supposed to premiere a year ago, but the pandemic halted production for many months. Series creator Jesse Armstrong says despite the delay, the cast was soon back in the zone when they finally reunited. Armstrong tells KCRW how the road to “Succession” began with a script about an imagined Murdoch family dinner, and explains why he re-writes his scripts — full of lacerating insults — throughout the production process.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business. |
0:05.3 | At long last, Succession has returned. |
0:08.4 | And also at long last, we get to talk to series creator Jesse Armstrong. |
0:13.4 | The third season of HBO's award-winning black comedy was supposed to premiere a year ago, |
0:18.3 | but of course, production was halted for many months. |
0:21.5 | Armstrong says the cast was soon back in the zone when they finally reunited. |
0:25.6 | We shoot on film. |
0:27.3 | It brings this, I don't know what the hell it brings, technically. |
0:30.0 | I'm, you know, not, I don't really know, but I know that it brings a certain excitement, |
0:34.3 | concentration and sense of, we're wasting money now, as soon as we start rolling, |
0:39.6 | and that, you know, the masks came off, the shields came off, the pulse quickened, and I think |
0:45.6 | we were back there. |
0:46.7 | Critics agree the Roy family is as diabolical and engaging as ever. |
0:51.8 | Armstrong tells us how the road to succession began with a script about an imagined |
0:55.8 | Murdoch family dinner and explains why he rew writes his succession scripts full of lacerating |
1:01.8 | insults throughout the production process. But first we banter. Stick around. It's the business from |
1:07.7 | KCRW. |
1:16.7 | I am joined by my partner in banter, Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt. |
1:17.5 | Hi there. |
1:24.1 | So, Matt, there has been quite a display. As we are speaking, who knows where this continues to go, |
1:28.9 | because it ain't over. Netflix has really stepped in it. And of course, I'm referring to the Dave Chappelle comedy special to closer. This is hardly the first time that Dave Chappelle has |
1:34.2 | caused controversy, allegations of being anti-gay, anti-trans, anti-Jewish, anti-this, anti-that. |
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