Calling Succession Fans: How Good is Jeremy Strong?

Seems to be floating around a big film roles too.....Armaggedon Time, etc....... he's playing Roy Cohn (!) in The Apprentice so he's playing one of his heroes very best roles ffs

Oh I didn't know that....Chastain came to his defense also - they are buddies I know......let's get him in that King Lear movie! 

I'm not gonna lie - it's the reaction of some  (not all) to this current play that fascinates me - whch co-stars Michael Imperioli btw - because I have seen that play several times over the years and that role is extremely hard to pull off........if he was to win a Tony......... I can't think of a recent role like that - that inward and unshowy. 

It would be quite a feather in his cap and quite a range example.......

Fun fact: Jeremy Strong was Chastain's reader when she auditioned for Salome (she mentioned it when she was on Marc Maron's podcast).

I knew he would breakout after watching him in The Big Short. He was so good there.

Where are the fncking Succession fans? Wtf weirdos........

USA Today gave a typical rave......on his An Enemy of the People:

Strong is astounding as Thomas, resisting easy histrionics even as tensions reach their boiling point. Soft-spoken and even-keeled, he imbues the character with a deep well of sadness, not only for his late wife Katherine, but for the willful ignorance that’s afflicted his community.

From Gold Derby.....he really might "steal" this win and a nod seems almost assured........like I said a Tony nod by this actor in THIS role is a big deal...a win almost shocking......and a big "look at my range bitches statement"

We match 100% on our four picks for Best Actor, too. Our predicted nominees are Leslie Odom Jr. (“Purlie Victorious”), Jeremy Strong (“An Enemy of the People”), Steve Carell (“Uncle Vanya”) and Michael Stuhlbarg (“Patriots”), though both Carell and Stuhlbarg have yet to be seen by Broadway audiences. “If ‘Purlie Victorious’ was still running, Leslie would definitely be my number one,” shares Sam, wondering how the fact that the show closed in early February will affect his win potential. He adds, “I’m really kind of sad not to have Liev Schreiber in my lineup,” referring to the Tony winner’s lead role in “Doubt.” Could this be a category that gets expanded by a statistical tie, too?

Yeah, it's bit worrying that this is a trend from Strong. And these are character roles, where you'd expect him to shine. Again, he's a stage trained and experienced theatre actor, so it's not really a surprise that he can do Ibsen on stage to a good standard. So could Kevin Spacey, but most people kind of recognised his range limitations as a film/screen actor. I think Strong may  have even more limitations than Spacey as a dramatic screen actor, but again, if he picks his roles and "type" carefully, there's no reason he shouldn't be able to get major acclaim in another screen role. 

Strong's three favorite actors are Al Pacino, Daniel Day-Lewis and Dustin Hoffman. I think he shares the most qualities with Hoffman ( primarily, how strongly he presents a neurotic quality. He'll never have the cool swagger of Pacino or the Byronic leading man intensity of DDL). But I just don't think he has Hoffman's range ( or any of their range), particularly on screen.  

Maybe he just lucked into the role of his life as a screen actor with Kendall Roy, and he's just overall better suited to theatre.

One of those pesky Successions fans here. I honestly think Kendall Roy is kind of a miracle. I've never seen a performance that elicits such genuine feelings of empathy, contempt, and pity at this level. It's a complete tour de force and one of TV's finest creations imo.

I've seen him in a bunch of other stuff and he never really registered for me. But I don't think that really matters. If Strong was put on Earth only to make Kendall Roy real, then so be it.

To be fair, they barely like anything.