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It’s Bullseye, I’m Jesse Thorn. Next up, the Australian actor Sarah Snook. Odds are you know Sarah for her role on HBO’s Succession—one of the most acclaimed TV dramas in the last decade. Sarah plays Siobhan Roy, but to her friends and family, it’s just Shiv. Shiv, like the sharp thing you would use to gut your enemy. Succession is a show about—well, it’s about succession. The Roy family owns a giant conservative media conglomerate called Waystar Royco. The family’s patriarch, Logan Roy, is aging and can’t run the company forever. So, the question is: who will take over and what are they willing to do to be that person? Shiv, at first, is happy to let her brothers fight it out. Her husband, Tom, works for the company, but she mostly works in politics—managing campaigns for progressive candidates. As long as she can keep her giant Manhattan apartment, she can manage things on her own just fine, thank you very much. But like pretty much every character on Succession, it doesn’t take long for the cracks to show. She worries that her influence in her family is the only thing that matters to her career. She asks her husband for an open marriage literally on their wedding night. Linda Holmes—the terrific host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour—talked with Sarah about what it’s like to play one of the most fascinating, complex, and confounding characters on television today. But before we get into that, let’s take a listen to a clip from the show. As I said earlier, Shiv spends most of the first season kind of above the fray, distancing herself from the company. But then, at the beginning of season two, her dad offers her the top job.
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Shiv Roy (Succession): Dad, [chuckling] I don’t think so! Logan Roy: Really? Because if there’s really no hope of you coming in, I’d rather cash out. Shiv: Look, if this is the way that we’re having this conversation anyway, then yeah. Fine! Sell. Logan: Fine. I’ll do it. Right now. I’ll tweet! The markets’ll move and that’ll be that. Shiv: Bull[censored]. Logan: You don’t care if I sell? Shiv: Don’t be a [censored] jerk, Dad! Logan: You wanna do it? Shiv: [Beat.] Yes… Yes.
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linda holmes
Sarah Snook, welcome to Bullseye!
sarah snook
[Chuckles.] Hi! Thanks for having me.
linda
What a great clip. I wanna come back to that scene in a little bit, but first I think you’re obligated to start every conversation right now with, uh, how are—how are things?
sarah
[Chuckles.] Yeah. Uuh, I—it’s good! I mean, I’m good. It’s… it’s… a tough time for everybody in a lot of ways, but everybody that I speak to—no matter what industry, it seems—is, like, really sort of purposefully finding, like, the optimism and the positivity in the times. And that’s like—what a gift! [Linda agrees.] You know. For us all to be doing that—for us still to have the capacity to do that.
linda
It must have seemed like a good idea at the time to connect yourself to United States’ [laughing] entertainment industry. [They laugh.] I wanted just to take a moment for people who are currently shocked to find out that you are Australian and in Australia—
sarah
Oh, yeah! Yeah. [Exaggerating her accent.] You know, g’day mate!
linda
Yeeeah! People— [They laugh.] People may not know! Is it better over there? Are you less locked down, over there, than we are over here?
sarah
Yeeeah. But do you know what? It’s actually—it’s not, in some ways, but our outcomes at the moment—like, our numbers and stats at the moment are better. So, it’s a—it’s a very strange time, because I hear from my friends and they’re out in the States and they’re—you know, there’s less of a lockdown in some ways, but the numbers are much higher. We just got post—we had—just had post-code lockdown here, yesterday, in Melbourne. Which is, sort of, taking a step backwards for an increase in numbers which, internationally, is not suuuper large. But for Australia, they don’t feel comfortable with it. Which I’m fine with. You know.
linda
Yeah. Well, you know, maybe the rest of the cast—for your next season—can just come to you and it can be the—it can be the Australian season. [Sarah laughs and agrees.] You all go to a big ranch. It’ll be an American television version of Australia, so it’ll have all the koalas and kangaroos and all that good stuff.
sarah
Yeah! And all, like—every Australian actor in it, completely. [Linda laughs.] Like, just as a random person at the café. Like, Margo Robbie just lives down there and [chuckling] Russell Crowe is the owner of the ranch and they’re all mates.
linda
So, let’s talk a little bit about where you are, in the production cycle—where were you in the production cycle when everything shut down? For people who don’t know, you’ve completed two seasons, doing a third season. Where were you, in all of that?
sarah
We were just about to start up again. We were meant to start up in April. [Linda makes an “ugh” sound.] And, yeah. [Linda laughs and agrees several times as Sarah continues.] Yeeeah. I mean, in some ways great, because we weren’t—we hadn’t already started in a—in a, sort of, a hard-to-pull-apart way and hard to sort of back out way. I have a friend who had just flown to Toronto to start something the following day, and then two days later had to fly back. So that, I think, would be really heartbreaking for that team—particularly having gone through all the pre-production and all of that. And that’ll begin at some point, again, but. Yeah. And so will we. But it just, you know—once it’s safe to do so.
linda
Yeah. Well, let’s talk a little bit about Shiv. Did you go through—for people who aren’t familiar with Shiv, her name is Siobhan, but she’s always called Shiv—except, perhaps, by her father. [Sarah chuckles.] Named after a knife—which is not terrible subtle, but great, I think. Personally.
sarah
[Laughing.] Yeah. Yeah. When we first got together, during the pilot, we were like—we were like, “Oh, wow! We didn’t realize it’s like Roman, Shiv—"
linda
Connor.
sarah
Yeah. Con. Connor. Shiv. Siobhan. Roman.
linda
Ken-dall.
sarah
You know, that’s like angry—but think—and Kendall, like “Kendall. Kendall. Ken. Ooh, knowledge. Like wisdom.” [Laughs.] I don’t know if that was on purpose, but—
linda
It’s a great—it’s a great set of names. Did you—did you go through a kind of a normal audition process, for Shiv?
sarah
Uuum. In—somewhat, yes. I got this—self-taped from Australia. And so, I put something down with my friend, at home, and was very reticent to do so because I thought—you know, it was out of my league and out of possibility of me getting it. So, I’m—you know, endlessly grateful [laughing] to my friend for making me put the tape down. But then, yeah. They asked if I would come over to do a final self-tape. Sorry, final screentest in the states and… yeah. Did it that way.
linda
Why didn’t you think you would get it?!
sarah
‘Cause—augh, I’m just so not—I’m—me, personally, as Sarah, is so far from Shiv Roy, that I was in this, “I don’t know how to expand myself to fit that. I don’t know what that infinite wealth kind of person is like. I don’t know if I like that person. I don’t—” Yeah, it just wasn’t in my—I didn’t feel like it was comfortably in my wheelhouse. I was just being chicken, you know. [Linda affirms with a laugh.] Just grow up, Sarah.
linda
In the first season, it often seemed like Shiv was the most normal of her siblings. She’s got her brother, Kendall, who is kind of a collapsing mess in the first season. Her bother, Roman, is a—just kind of a dirtball, in a lot of ways. Just really a—really, really kind of a dirtball. [Sarah agrees several times.] And her brother, Connor, is a weirdo living out in the desert. And she sot of seems like the most healthy person. She’s in politics instead of business. What is it like to be in an ensemble where you’re maybe playing the closest thing to a normal, healthy, person with all these very… big, kind of nutty things going on all around? [Linda agrees several times as Sarah talks.]
sarah
It was difficult at first, because like, in comedy, you have the—kind of, the buffoon, and then the, kind of, quote/unquote, like, “the straight guy”. Like the person—the fall guy. The person who’s—well, not the fall guy. He’s the person—well, they’re the person who… they remain the audience’s in, I guess. The touchstone. And I felt like, sometimes, I had to be that. And yet wanted to be able to lean into or hide behind comedy, or all the sort of like—the character points that they had that felt bigger, that they had to obviously fill and make realistic, but I didn’t feel like I had that. So, I wondered what my point was, [laughing] I guess. “I want what you’re doing, there.” And then realized that there is—so much about Shiv is observation and watching and being in that kind of feline thing going on in the corner. Just, like, waiting to pounce at the right point.
linda
Yeah. And she was—she did always have going for her, I think, in terms of—particularly in terms of comedy—her marriage. [Sarah laughs.] ‘Cause you can’t talk about—you can’t talk about Shiv and not talk about Tom. Shiv’s husband is… how do we describe Tom? Played by the great Matthew MacFadyen. How we play—how do we describe Tom?
sarah
Well, Tom is a sycophantic little gnat, in a way. [Laughing.] Like, he’s just—he’s this—he’s—there’s so much about him that is slimy and wormy and small. And yet, it’s in the outward casing of Matthew MacFadyen—which is charming, handsome, beautiful, strong, tall. Like, all those kinds of leading man qualities, and yet the character is the opposite, in some ways. Which I love. Because he’s just such a—you know, he’s a brilliant actor and, for him, getting a chance to play something so different from what he usually would be cast in or could play, you know, quite easily. Yeah, it’s a lot more interesting to sink your teeth into. And Tom—I think—I think one of the clearest things that occurred to us in second season was that obviously Tom is a bully, because he bullies Greg. And then—okay, well bullies usually are being bullied by someone else, at home. Okay. Well that’s probably Shiv. [Linda laughs.] Alright. Well, we’ll forgive—we’ll forgive Tom because he’s being bullied by Shiv. And then you’re like, “Well, Shiv’s being bullied by Logan, really. So, we’ll forgive—we’ll forgive Shiv that.” And then it just goes up the chain. Everyone needs to be nice to each other! But that’s not good TV. [Laughs.]
linda
There’s always a delight, to me, in finding out that people I think of as really good, like, wonderful dramatic actors are that funny. [Sarah agrees.] Because Tom—Tom, to me, is such a—he’s such a funny character, and I think Shiv—again, you know—often it’s not explicit that she’s explicitly hilarious in these scenes with Tom, but the scenes are wonderfully funny.
sarah
Yeah. Yeah, for sure. And so much about the writers—they calibrate that relationship so well, in that it has to still—yes, it is funny and yes it is kind of like, “Whyyy is Shiv with Tom?” But it still has to be real. Like, we still have to believe—though it’s unbelievable, we still have to believe it somehow.
linda
Right, for sure. So, when we talk about comedy—I don’t know if Australian audiences are like this at all, but American audiences are often kind of obsessed with the idea that actors improvise everything and kind of obsessed with the idea that if it seems natural and funny and conversational, the actors must have made it up on the spot. [Sarah hums in affirmation.] But as I understand it, you do do some improvising on Succession.
sarah
We do. We do, but it would be a great disservice and an untruth to say that it’s not written supremely well. You know? [Laughs.] Like. [Linda agrees.] Those writers work for months and then we come in and say, [in a buffoonish voice] “Yeah, we’ll just improvise a lot.” And Ryan is like, [quietly] “Oh my gooosh. No, you don’t.” We do, but—
linda
Where do you do—where do you do the most of that kind of work?
sarah
It seems to be book enders. Like, so for instance, if we ended a scene and there was, like, the hellos that would happen at the beginning of a dinner, all of that—the writers are not gonna write that in, sort of, very, very specific moments. Because that’s the thing that fills the atmosphere around. [Linda agrees.] Yes, there might be an amazing line that Kieran says, because he’s a very funny man. He might say something that’s outrageous that [laughs] just makes sense for Roman to have said, then, and that might make the edit. But, you know, you’re using all the colors from the—from the palette. You have to kind of fill the outside details, as well. And, you know, the writers create this really tight scaffolding that then you can launch around, I guess. And if improvising comes from it, it’s only because they gave you the clues of where to go in the first place.
jesse
We’ll wrap up with Sarah Snook in just a minute. When we come back from a quick break, she’ll tell us what she hopes Shiv will get to do in Succession’s third season. It’s Bullseye, from MaximumFun.org and NPR.
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Welcome back to Bullseye. I’m Jesse Thorn. Right now, we’re listening to Linda Holmes’ interview with Sarah Snook. Sarah plays Shiv on the TV drama, Succession. The show’s first two seasons are streaming now on HBO. Let’s get back into the conversation.
linda
So, Shiv’s first season kind of builds up to her wedding which is this very kind of beautiful, theoretically wonderful, special, elegant affair. [Sarah agrees several times as Linda continues.] And then, you leave Shiv and when we come back they’ve—they have, among other things, really changed the visual presentation of Shiv, between seasons. They gave you the haircut heard round the world, I think. [Sarah laughs.] To the kind of—the sleek bob of the professionally tough woman and changed the wardrobe a lot. Did that change what it felt like to be Shiv?
sarah
Definitely. Definitely. And that—sort of, the confluence of the writing focusing more on what Shiv’s—sort of, ambitious side within the family structure.
linda
Well yes, there is—there is the writing. There is the writing, too. [Sarah agrees with a laugh.] In addition to the hair and pants. [Laughs.]
sarah
No, but the—which, the, you know hair and—hair and costume knew. So, they wanted to make sure that that was being reflected, visually. And that—as an actor, that helps enormously, because you feel like you’re really sitting inside the character, then. It’s not… not so much of a bridge to cross or—between you. When you—I mean, I feel like Shiv is one of those people who—she’s a box-ticker. You know, she’s sort of got her five-year plan, her ten-year plan. Her three-month plan. [Laughs.] Like, weekly planner. And all the goals that she’s gonna achieve, within that. And box-ticking, in a way, is like, “Right, find the—find the person who in some ways, yes, looks good on paper, but also looks good in photographs to marry. Yes, he’s a bit of a [censored], but I can control him and he’ll never—” You know. I think Logan’s very accurate in seven when he says, “You’ll marry a man fathoms beneath you because you’re afraid to fail.” That’s—oof. That cuts deep. [Linda agrees.] There’s a truth that, but it doesn’t mean they don’t love each other and have a—have a way in which they relate that is—that is meaningful, between them. Yeah. And then once the wedding’s done, it’s like, “Right.” [Laughs, struggling for words briefly.] “Moving on. Done.”
linda
I’ve asked myself so many times whether I think Shiv loves him. But you think Shiv loves him.
sarah
Yeah, I do, and I—in her own way. I think—
linda
[Chuckling.] I was gonna say, in the Shiv way!
sarah
Yeeeah. I think—what’s the way of, like, you know Byron or Keats or some sort of, like, romantic—high-romance poet. No, she doesn’t. And no, she doesn’t because she probably would never know how to feel that love, because that’s sooo vulnerable and risky and I don’t think the Roys are naturally, um… there’s a softness and a gentleness to that kind of love. And so, I think she’s the kind of person who loves in the way that she decides what love is. Do you know? [Chuckling.] Not in the—not in the—and even seeing it on—‘cause you, you know, you’re being exposed to seeing it in films and seeing, you know, different versions of love. It’s a bit like, “Well.” The… looking down upon that kind and not seeing it as useful, I guess. [Laughs.] [Linda agrees.] Yeah. It’s transactional, for her. Right? It’s—
linda
Yeeeah. It’s interesting, too, because we come here—back to the clip that we played at the top of the show, in which Shiv is offered the opportunity to take over the company by her father. If you believe him, she’s being offered the chance to take over the company. If you don’t believe him—which, I never believe him, then it’s something—something else entirely is happening. But she really kind of jumps in and says, “Yes, I wanna do this.” Whereas, in the first season—as we talked about—she had kind of been in politics, she didn’t seem—she seemed like she was trying to kind of stay away from the family business. Did you feel like that was a big… change for her? Or do you think the seeds of that, as you understood that character, were always present for her to want to then reach out and be part of the company?
sarah
Yeah, I think it’s both, to be honest. I think we’re really good, as humans, at deceiving ourselves. Like, the things that we can hide from ourselves, even in plain sight. Like, you can know something about yourself or know something about what you want, but not really admit it to yourself until it’s right there in front of you. And if you don’t take this chance now, then it’ll never happen again. I think her—in terms of her ambition of politics—yes, that’s real and yes that’s the thing that she had wanted to do and needed to do to prove her own worth to herself as well as to her family. But the moment that it gets offered that she could beat her brothers, she could be at the top of the family—like, she could—there’s an optics side of being in the that family, and at the top of that family, in the CEO sort of position, that is never gonna be unseen by [laughing] Shiv, the—you know, her entire life. Like, back as a seven-year-old, as a—as a ten-year-old growing up. It would be, “That’s the thing to aim for, but if I don’t think I’m gonna get there, I’m not gonna reduce myself by aiming for it and failing. I’m gonna go somewhere else.” [Linda agrees several times as Sarah continues.] And that’s, like… I love that. And—you know, Jesse said in the first season, there’s a scene that came up and he was like—I went up to him, afterward, and was like, “Do you think that Shiv wants, like—this doesn’t even make sense. Doesn’t Shiv want to be the top dog? Like, top job, top dog kind of thing?” And he goes, “No, I don’t I think so.” [Laughs.] Huh. And he may well have known what he wanted to do for season two, but that’s genius to tell me that, because—because it hides it from myself, even. There’s no, like, “I’m playing, like, you know, an eyebrow going up here.” Or doing something like that. It’s—like, it’s sooo hidden in prismatic kind of form. Like we are, as humans, doing that. That when it comes out it’s just—yeah.
linda
Yeah, ‘cause you don’t—he wouldn’t want you to be playing to it too much, ‘cause that’s why it surprises suckers like me. ‘Cause you’re surprised by it when she does it.
sarah
[Laughing.] And suckers like me! So, when he says it it’s like—[gasps]. And you have to follow what the scene says, and it seems that she’s into this. Sooo, alright. I guess we’re going there! Make it make sense.
linda
I also—I wanna talk about the last episode of the second season, which is of course where we left these characters. Family empire in crisis, the patriarch—Logan—was looking for someone who could publicly take the fall. He referred to that lovingly as a skull to wave. [Sarah chuckles.] And potentially could wind up in the—in legal trouble. The family goes off on a yacht. They have maybe the world’s worst brunch where they discuss at length who is gonna be this—
sarah
[Delighted.] Love that scene.
linda
This—this—oh, god, me too. I call it the Roy Family Murder Breakfast. Um. The blood sacrifice. There’s this moment when Shiv’s brother, Roman, suggests that they give up Tom. And Shiv sort of goes along, saying—right in front of her husband—that he does make a—kind of a compelling patsy. And they don’t really reach a decision at that time, but later—when Shiv and Tom are alone, he tells her that because of that conversation, as well as for some other reasons, he’s not feeling very confident about their marriage. And she’s just devastated. And to me, that’s such a curious combination of scenes, ‘cause she’s so cold to him at the murder breakfast! And then she’s so wounded that he seems to be unhappy. How do you interpret that—a turn like that, between that pair of scenes? ‘Cause I know you can either think about it in terms of, “I want to get it with the writer’s intent, to be going on with Shiv.” Or you can think about it in terms of, “What do I think, as the actor who knows Shiv perhaps the best, thinks is going on with Shiv?” Is it both? Is it more one than the other? ‘Cause to me, that’s a really—I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what was going on with Shiv.
sarah
[Laughs brightly.] I think that what I really like about how the writers create, is that nothing is ever binary or set in stone. It’s all very greyscale in a lot of ways. There’s—there’s potential for it to go one way or the other, or for things to be two things at once. And through Shiv, in that, I think—again, she’s so deceptive to herself, even, that she can be so unfeeling and unkind and then be struck by a real moment, by a real vulnerability from her husband that cracks her open again and goes, “Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey—remember you’re human? Remember he—you know, not everything is a game. Not everything is transactional. Not everything is, you know, in pursuit of a goal, like you’ve been taught. Remember that these are—you’re two humans in a marriage.” And there’s, I think—that, for me, made me realize how much she needs him, but how much that scares her and how well she’s able to hide that from herself. I think hearing that she does make somebody so unhappy that [laughing] they could leave is so, like… ugh. I mean, I don’t think she’s ever been dumped, you know? I don’t think she’s—I think she’s that woman who’s never been dumped. And if she was, she would say that well, she’s been cheating on him for years. Like, weeks. You know, like, she would— [Linda agrees.] She would find a way to get the power back, and in that it’s so exposing and so simple. Like, “I—the happy I’d feel—but the sad I’d feel without you is, you know, worse than the—is not as bad as the sad I feel with you.” Ouch.
linda
I want to, before we let you go, I want to talk about one more—I wanna play one more clip, which is also Shiv and Logan. This is after, as we just talked about, the—Shiv is very cold to Tom but then she feels very bad about Tom potentially wanting to leave her and she has a conversation with her father, because he is still throwing around the idea of potentially having Tom be the—I don’t know. The one who takes the fall. And Shiv, here, is absolutely at a crossroads and she talks about what they’re gonna do with Logan—played, of course, by the great Brian Cox. Let’s play the clip.
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Shiv: [Cautiously.] I just… think that, uh, Tom doesn’t deserve it. And, uuh, it doesn’t work for the rest of the world. I don’t. Logan: So. What do you think? Shiv: Uuh… Logan: It’s the sort of tough choice people need to be able to make—people who would be very senior people. Shiv: I can’t choose, Dad. Logan: No. No. [Sighs.] Shiv: Just not, uh… [whispers] just not Tom.
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linda
Ugh! Ah!
sarah
[Chuckles.] I mean… ooh, it’s so baaad. ‘Cause he’s really directly asking her to be less human in order to be successful in business. [Linda agrees several times.] I would hope that society, as a general rule, is moving to being more human, in—to be successful in business. I mean, for instance, like—or in policy and government. Jacinda Ardern, her approach to this moment right now would be, I would say, more human and more sort of understanding of humanity, society, that kind—you know, being… maternal has been thrown around, in that sort of sense. That—and what is the outcome? There’s been a lot more safety. There’s been a lot more sort of, “Okay. Let’s get back into—return to work faster.” I would hope that [laughing] businesses start moving towards that. But this is, like—there, this is direct evidence in—coming from Logan Roy, of how otherwise business is operated in—you know, for the last however many years.
linda
What do you hope to be able to get to do in season three?
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Sarah: Oof. Linda: Go outside? [Laughs.] Sarah: I… don’t know. [Laughs.] Go outside!
sarah
I just get to—I just hope to get to do season three. I mean, we’re doing it. We just—yeah, it’s just like everybody else. When? I don’t know. I’ve always been a—I like how they… blindside the characters, a bit. And in such a way that, like, reveals something that was always there. So, I guess I wanna see Shiv put into positions where she’s uncomfortable, where she has to kind of deal with the potential volatility of herself, again. Where she’s out of control, ‘cause she’s so good at being in control. Maybe—maybe Tom having something, I don’t know, that she’s challenged by. I don’t know. Yeah. I just—I do love playing her, ‘cause it’s such a broad range of things that you get to do and get to fold it into, like, the realize of who Shiv always has been, but you just didn’t know yet.
linda
Well, Sarah Snook, this has been sooo much fun! [Sarah laughs.] Succession is available—HBO, HBO Max, all of your streaming options. You can buy it. You can rent it. You gotta catch up with it. It’s a lot of fun. Succession. Sarah Snook, thank you so much.
sarah
Thank you! Thanks for having me.
jesse
Sarah Snook, interviewed by the one and only Linda Holmes. You can stream both seasons of Succession right now, on HBO. It is a hilarious, devastating program.
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jesse
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