Filming Shiv’s Succession Season 2 Meltdown Was Terrifying For Sarah Snook

“As we had been rehearsing, after which as we did it, it wasn’t working, I suppose,” she admitted. “Jesse [Armstrong, series creator] ended up going to this example, going, ‘Nicely, what would you need to say? What’s the very first thing that involves your thoughts? Let’s simply simplify it.'” The script for Shiv’s pivotal “Succession” scene within the “Tern Haven” episode was initially far more dialogue-heavy. “It was a way more wordy factor that [Armstrong]’d written,” Snook revealed. “We simply simplified and simplified, and turned it into this very quick phrase vomit.”

Shiv blowing her possibilities was a scary second for the actress and the character alike. At that second, Snook was simply as afraid of Logan’s disappointment as Shiv was. The truth is, it was essentially the most nerve-wracking second that she’d ever had as an actress. “I believe essentially the most terrified I’ve ever been on set, in something, ever, was while you, Brian [Cox], began dinging your glass in a take,” the actress admitted. This temporary second passes rapidly within the episode, however the actors had been compelled to take a seat with this pregnant pause through the shoot.

“Shiv stands up and all people leaves and the scene as written is over lengthy earlier than that, however what I like the way in which that we shoot is we’ll play it out till the second is completed,” Snook defined. “Then within the edit, they will minimize they usually’ll change it and form it. What’s going to occur when Logan and Shiv are confronted with one another? [Cox] dinging that crystal glass is the dying knell. I’ve by no means been so terrified. I’ve simply seen dying include a scythe.”