The prize, or the punishment, depending on your point of view, is bestowed upon Gerri, who accepts the title with a barely-suppressed smile. When it’s clear someone will need to step in while Logan appears to step back, the Roy children who remain in good standing-Connor, the dope who would be president (Alan Ruck) Roman, the savvy dilettante (Kieran Culkin) and Shiv, the smooth, cynical operator (Sarah Snook)-are passed over. Asked why not, Gerri replies, “Why don’t I want the job that makes your brain explode?” But that was so two seasons ago.Īs season three crests, Waystar is under siege from the Department of Justice, skittish shareholders, and Logan’s rogue second son, Kendall (Jeremy Strong), who once rapped the praises of L-to-the-O-G but has since disavowed his father and has designs on a total takeover. In the first season, when Logan suffers an hemorrhagic stroke and everyone around him scurries about angling for the not-insensitive way to capitalize on their patriarch's incapacitation and make a play for the throne, Gerri is the only one to say she’s not interested. “I feel like whoever he names to be the heir apparent, he's going to start disliking them in minutes because he actually does not want an heir apparent of any kind.” “I don't think she sees herself being in a lead role if Logan is alive and fit, because I think she knows him better than the kids do, in a way… And if you notice, once he naming me, he starts treating me much shittier.” The drop-off from season one, when Logan behaved “like he really respected me,” she says, was steep. “I think about this all the time,” she says. (She did wind up in a straw hat, though, as did the rest of the cast, for an “event” near the end of the season.)
” She never really unpacked her suitcase, wearing only tissue-thin cotton shifts she purchased on arrival. “We're on a tarmac and Florence in the 90s in this fall wardrobe,” she says. Smith-Cameron-who plays Gerri Kellman, Waystar Royco’s general counsel-walked down romantic cobblestone streets in Tuscany, beneath that perfect turquoise sky… and got heatstroke. So it is on-theme, though not ideal, that while filming a few episodes of the series’ third season, (which premiered in mid-October) in Italy, J. They fly on private jets to private yachts docked at private islands-and yet they are never really relaxed. The almighty rich spend most of their time scrambling not to be dethroned. All that shimmers is a sordid, empty shell. On Succession, all that glitters is not gold.