Succession actor Sarah Snook has said that the series’ final day of production made everyone “very emotional.”
The fourth and last season of the satirical black-comedy drama will premiere on Monday, with 10 episodes remaining before the show concludes for good.
The cast has had conflicting sentiments about the show’s finale, although Sarah, who portrays Shiv Roy, has stated that they were all on the same page after the reality show aired.
Although the series finale was shot out of sequence, the last scene elicited strong emotions from everyone on site.
‘We shot a scene that chronologically wasn’t the last scene of the episode, but was a scene that had a lot more playfulness and joy and silliness, kind of a sibling-ish play, and that was really fun to do as a last scene,’ she said.
‘I don’t know if it will make the show, because it’s pretty eccentric in some ways, but it was good to do as the last scene.
‘It was really meaningful, and everyone was crying, and clapping, and having all sorts of emotions and feelings, and it was all very sad. And happy as well,’ she told EW.
It wasn’t until the fourth season began that the cast was told it would be the final, with Sarah previously expressing her ‘great sense of loss, despair, and grief’.
But, after disclosing last week that she is expecting her first child with comic husband Dave Lawson, she has now stated that her primary emphasis is on her “very big project.”
‘I’m very fortunate in that I’m not [leaving] the best job I’ve ever done and then turning around into a vacuum of no work and unemployment,’ she also told the publication.
‘I’ve got a baby coming, so one door closes, another door flies itself wide open. [I am] quite happily moving on to the next thing.
‘I’ve got a pretty big [project] on my plate coming up, so I’m not entertaining anything else just yet.’
The actress had previously said she was ‘very upset’ when being told about the end of Succession, but that everything ‘has to come to an end’.
Succession returns to on Monday from 2am and will be available to stream on NOW.