“He’s not dumb, but he’s marching to a beat that nobody else can hear but him,” the 'Succession' actor says of his offbeat character.
Among the cast of pampered ne’er-do-wells who populate HBO’s “Succession,” Connor Roy is something of an outlier. The slightly buffoonish libertine and eldest son of billionaire magnate Logan Roy, Connor has sidestepped the battle for power that animates his three younger half-siblings.
Over the course of four seasons, Ruck has developed a nuanced read on his tragicomic character. “He’s not dumb,” Ruck says, “but he’s marching to a beat that nobody else can hear but him.” The plot of Season 4 is so packed with intrigue that Connor’s presidential campaign is left on the periphery. All viewers learn is that the “Con-heads” make up about 1% of the electorate. So who are they?
“Some attention is better than no attention,” Ruck says. “That’s what drives all the kids. Running for president was solely about doing something that would impress his father.” “Look, they were never going to outsmart our father, or get him to break down and say, ‘I love you.’ He’s just too experienced, too smart, and doesn’t let his emotions into it at all. Connor’s lived that much longer than them, and he’s been burned enough times to know that you’re not going to get anything out of the old man, even though he keeps trying.
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