Host Roger Bennett is joined by Sarah Snook, who plays Shiv Roy, that astute, acerbic, entitled lover of non-monogamous relationships, unbridled power and backless turtlenecks. Snook talks landing the role on a longshot video from Australia, the dynamics and origins of Shiv's relationship with Tom, and if she is the rightful heir to the Waystar Royco throne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
And there's always that fight for supremacy, to be the favorite child when we know that the company is.
And so in some ways, it's a deal with the devil where if you can be the head of the company, then you get to be the favorite child because you will become the company that's so sickening.
You will become the kingdom.
This is Roger Bennett on HBO's succession podcast, a show which is part of the Volta content farm.
My guest today is one of the most complex characters currently on television, Siobhan Shivroi.
Grounded, astute, acerbic, clandestine, entitled lover of non monogamous relationships, unbridled power and backless turtlenecks.
Fittingly for a character named after a weapon.
She can savage her brothers, her husband, anyone threatening her family.
She is, as she puts it herself, the good cop to her father.
Logans misogynistic cop.
The lone woman swimming in a stagnant cesspool of toxic masculinity, one who was promised the keys to the Waystar Roiko empire, only to discover the the locks have been quickly changed as she waits for a good old fashioned dinosaur cull.
He made me a fucking offer, and I'm gonna redeem that coupon.
My guest who plays Shiv has emerged from Australia to gain international renown.
No less an expert than Helen Mirren has held it as spectacular.
It's a great joy to have her join me, the queen of the astonished side eye.
Welcome Sarah Snook.
Hi.
What an intro jeep.
I'm exhausted.
Sarah, thank God you're here.