{"id":9132,"date":"2023-03-19T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/19\/how-fucking-lucky-am-i-frank-rich-bids-farewell-to-succession\/"},"modified":"2023-03-19T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T23:00:00","slug":"how-fucking-lucky-am-i-frank-rich-bids-farewell-to-succession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/19\/how-fucking-lucky-am-i-frank-rich-bids-farewell-to-succession\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHow Fucking Lucky Am I?\u201d: Frank Rich Bids Farewell to Succession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-iKrtVW eYPQkA asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-fpksBS deXOlp asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-kGOugJ dtBwjW responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-feWtx fnHGrH asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-jJyKit mrcDn AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-feWtx fnHGrH asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-UrHlS BaseText-fFrHpW CaptionText-cOiTlR boMZdO cIKIQm gsdLeN caption__text\">Kieran Culkin, Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong, Frank Rich, Alan Ruck attend HBO drama Succession premiere at Time Warner Center.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-UrHlS BaseText-fFrHpW CaptionCredit-cRZQOh boMZdO fHwRjQ LGmsj caption__credit\">By Lev Radin\/Pacific Press\/LightRocket\/Getty Images.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paywall\">I asked Rich for one of his favorite moments working on the show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cThere are many, many, many,\u201d he began, \u201cbut one incredible moment was the end of season two, when Kendall gives his press conference in New York excoriating his father. The end of that episode, you see Logan, with a couple of the siblings, on a yacht in Croatia, watching Kendall give that press conference on a television set. The press conference had not been shot yet. It would be shot in downtown New York a week or two later. So he\u2019s watching it on a green screen, because there\u2019s no image, no video yet, of <strong>Jeremy Strong<\/strong> doing that scene. A young woman production assistant is reading Kendall\u2019s lines, maybe three yards out of view. I\u2019m watching <strong>Brian [Cox]<\/strong>\u201d\u2014the actor and Royal Shakespeare Company veteran who plays Logan Roy\u2014\u201cand I\u2019m also that close to Brian, behind the camera, looking into the monitor.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cI\u2019m watching his face, and I\u2019m watching him react to Logan\u2019s son betraying him,\u201d Rich continued. \u201cHe has no dialogue. He is just reacting. And he\u2019s not even reacting to the actual bit, he\u2019s reacting to someone just reading it flat, and it\u2019s so powerful. And I think, How fucking lucky am I, as someone who\u2019s spent his entire life loving the theater, loving actors, loving this kind of drama, to be a stone\u2019s throw from this scene on a yacht in Croatia? As someone who spent their life treasuring this kind of work, this kind of acting, this kind of writing, what a great thing to have a front-row seat to.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap paywall\">In journalism, you do a piece and it appears in the newspaper the next day, or in the magazine in a few months. In the entertainment business, half the things you work on never see the light of day, and when they do, the wheels of Hollywood grind slowly. But for Rich, when it comes to actually being on set, there\u2019s something about the experience that feels in sync with his earlier career. \u201cYou walk onto a soundstage, and it\u2019s very much like a newsroom,\u201d he said. \u201cIt could be a hundred people, brilliant people, prima donnas, people who are not so brilliant, people of all ages, ethnicities, races, and people with very different skills, from acting, to being a camera operator, to being a script coordinator, to being a makeup artist, writers, whatever\u2014and you\u2019re working against a very tight deadline where, at a certain point, the train has to leave the station.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><em>Succession<\/em>\u2019s \u201cnewsroom,\u201d to borrow Rich\u2019s metaphor, has been conquering deadlines since the series first got rolling at the end of 2016. \u201cIt has exceeded everybody\u2019s expectations,\u201d said Rich. \u201cAnything that becomes a phenomenon, you can\u2019t predict it. It\u2019s a mystery. It\u2019s like being struck by lightning.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">He told me the cast and crew had for some time sensed that season four would be <em>Succession<\/em>\u2019s last. But Armstrong only made it official \u201cliterally weeks ago,\u201d said Rich, when they were doing the \u201ctable read\u201d for the final episode of season four. Armstrong broke the news publicly in a February 23 <em>New Yorker<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/the-new-yorker-interview\/the-end-of-succession-is-near\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a>. \u201cOne misconception,\u201d Rich continued, \u201cis that people said, \u2018Oh, well once you decided [the show was ending], you had to change the ending of the season.\u2019 That\u2019s not how the show works. The ending didn\u2019t change.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Rich\u2019s demanding Hollywood schedule has put his journalistic life on hold. The last piece he wrote for <em>New York<\/em> magazine was published on January 7, 2021. (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2020\/01\/what-will-happen-to-trumps-republican-collaborators.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What Will Happen to the Trump Toadies?<\/a>\u201d) Is journalism behind him? \u201cIt would take extraordinary circumstances for me to want to write political pieces anymore,\u201d Rich said. \u201cI feel like I\u2019ve said what I had to say. Might I do other magazine pieces? Yes, in fact I\u2019ve talked to <strong>David Haskell<\/strong>\u201d\u2014the editor who succeeded Moss at <em>New York<\/em>\u2014\u201cabout what I might do during my summer break.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Barney Greengrass was getting crowded and our table appeared to be in demand. I proposed wrapping up with a quick lightning round:<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">What will Rich miss the most?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cI\u2019ll work with many of the people on the show again, but all of us being together on a show again is highly unlikely, you know? So you miss that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Could he tell me anything about season four?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cNo!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><em>Nothing<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201c10 episodes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Thoughts on the Fox-Dominion revelations, as someone who was writing critically about Fox News 20 years ago?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cWhat\u2019s surprising is that it\u2019s all coming out, because we all knew it. I have no idea what a jury\u2019s gonna make of it. There are all sorts of First Amendment issues. But it\u2019s fun to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Last one: Semafor recently asked Rupert Murdoch what he thinks of <em>Succession.<\/em> Murdoch replied, \u201cNever watched it.\u201d Does Rich believe him?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cNo, I don\u2019t believe it,\u201d said Rich. \u201cBut on the other hand, I don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2023\/03\/frank-rich-succession-season-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kieran Culkin, Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong, Frank Rich, Alan Ruck attend HBO drama Succession premiere at Time Warner Center.\u00a0By Lev Radin\/Pacific Press\/LightRocket\/Getty Images. I asked Rich for one of his favorite moments working on the show. \u201cThere are many, many, many,\u201d he began, \u201cbut one incredible moment was the end of season two, when Kendall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1146,31,906],"class_list":{"0":"post-9132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-frank-rich","9":"tag-hbo","10":"tag-succession"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}