Succession stars Alan Ruck and Justine Lupe have joined picket lines as the Hollywood actors and writers strikes roll on. Ruck, who played Connor Roy on the HBO show, called the idea of using AI to help write scripts “soulless”. Striking writers are seeking assurances from studios that their jobs will not be threatened by the technology. Lupe, who played Willa Ferreyra, said that character and bit-part actors now struggled to make enough money to afford basic healthcare. Multiple Hollywood stars have been pictured at pickets this week, joining striking writers, who began their industrial action in May.
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SUCCESSION COULD HAVE BEEN a space opera, so infrequent were its characters on terra firma. As teased in its woozy title sequence, in which both absurdity and gravitas spill from the rotten blooms of Nicholas Brittel’s score, the characters in the Hobbesian HBO family drama mostly hover somewhere in the air: in helicopters, bleached penthouses, glassy upper-floor offices. Despite being American cultural despots, as owners of Fox doppelgänger Waystar Royco, the Roy family whips around in a cultureless vacuum, a reflection of their ideological vacuity and volatility. To tell the story of three