WARNING: This text incorporates major spoilers from the series finale of “Succession.”
He had a robust gut.
Actor Jeremy Strong, 44, revealed that he actually drank the disgusting “king” smoothie that was made for him by Sarah Snook, 35, and Kieran Culkin, 40, for the series finale that aired on Max Sunday night, in accordance with the official “Succession” podcast.
The questionably secure concoction appeared midway through the episode when all three Roy siblings — Kendall (Strong), Roman (Culkin) and Shiv (Snook) — were grouped around their mother’s kitchen table, debating the fate of their late father’s (Brian Cox) media empire.
In a fit of good-natured teasing, each Shiv and Roman decided to “haze” their brother by throwing several different ingredients — including milk, Tabasco hot sauce, bread crusts, Branston pickle, raw eggs and cocoa powder — right into a blender to create a vomit-colored smoothie.
To top off the sickening-looking beverage that the Roy siblings deemed “fit for a king,” Snook added only a drop of her own spit.
“You’re going to be an excellent CEO,” Shiv told Kendall within the emotionally charged scene. “I actually think that — if this doesn’t kill you, which it definitely will.”
Encouraged by his siblings, Kendall took an enormous gulp of the smoothie before he swore off the rest of it.
Chatting with the podcast on Monday, Strong told host Kara Swisher that he drank “all those things” that Snook and Culkin put within the blender.
“We did it only a couple of times, after which I went outside and retched, and jumped within the ocean, and washed it off my hair,” said the 44-year-old. “Yeah, I did drink it, yeah.”
In response to Strong, the one reason he drank it was because he knew that if Kendall was real, he would have done the identical.
“I wouldn’t understand how to not drink it, continued Strong. “He wants it that badly, that he’s going to drink whatever that’s. Nevertheless it was disgusting.”
The Post reached out to Strong for comment.
This is just not the primary time Strong’s method acting has been called out on the show.
Strong went viral in 2021 after he revealed his creative abilities during an interview with the Latest Yorker.
Brain Cox, who plays on-screen patriarch Logan Roy, lambasted his acting style.
“It’s f – – king annoying,” Cox said of Strong at all times being in character. “Don’t get me happening it.”
“I’ve worked with intense actors before. It’s a very American disease, I feel, this inability to separate yourself off whilst you’re doing the job,” Cox told the Latest Yorker.
“The result that Jeremy gets is at all times pretty tremendous,” Cox continued. “I just worry about what he does to himself. I worry in regards to the crises he puts himself through with a view to prepare.”
This past February, he seemingly soft-pedaled his previous assertions a bit.
“He’s a excellent actor. And the remainder of the ensemble is all OK with this. But knowing a personality and what the character does is barely a part of the skill set,” Cox, 76, explained in an interview with Town & Country.
Since then, Strong appeared in a March 2023 cover interview with GQ during which he said Cox had earned the proper to voice his opinions.
“Everyone’s entitled to have their feelings. I also think Brian Cox, for instance, he’s earned the proper to say regardless of the f – – k he wants,” stated Strong. “There was no need to deal with that or do damage control.”
“I feel plenty of love for my siblings and my father on the show. And it is sort of a family within the sense that, and I’m sure they’d say this, too, you don’t at all times just like the folks that you like. I do at all times respect them,” Strong continued.
The complete series of “Succession” is now streaming on Max.
