Host Roger Bennett is joined by Emmy-nominee Kieran Culkin, who plays Roman Roy, the louche, gutter-mouthed, broken third son of monstrous patriarch Logan. Kieran talks Roman's unfiltered approach to life, the character's sexual hangups, and finally embracing acting as a "career" in his mid-30s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
I go to work and I'm encouraged to be like, oh, you're Roman.
You say and do whatever the hell you want.
So, yeah, liberating and yeah, therapeutic and stuff, but haunting in that sometimes I find myself almost going too far and going, how did my brain even come up with that?
Where was that?
Like, why is that somewhere in my brain?
This is HBO's Succession podcast.
I am your host, Roger Bennett, Art of the OG My guest today is the man who inhabits a character New York magazine called a wise, cracking mash up of Puck and Iago.
Sheathed in an Armani suit, the loose, gutter mouthed, broken little bloke Roman Roy, the third son of monstrous patriarch Logan, a trollish man boy who's summed up by his life desire to be COO of Waystar Royco, even though he has no idea what that job actually entails because, well, responsibility is just not his thing.
And on planet Roman, you can live out such strange notions like this one.
You guys are a team.
And when a team is a team, it can't actually physically be beaten.
It's impossible.
A life truth he delivered to the confused players of the Heart of Midlovian Football Club he just mistakenly purchased as an empty gesture of a gift.
Welcome to the show, Roman Roy, AKA Ron Rockstone, AKA Emmy nominee for best supporting actor in a drama for his role in this magnificent series.
It's Mr.
Kieran Culkin.
Hello.
It is so good to be, I guess the closest I'll ever be to the other end of a phone to you.
And I feel strangely compelled to call you slime Puppy.
I think that was actually Jay's doing.