“Anxious people do well in New York”: night-walking with Lucy Prebble

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Lucy Prebble, the writer of 'Succession', pounds the streets of New York talking about the inspiration behind the series, her views on the Murdochs and her belief that systems, not characters, propel events

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he first time she ever came to New York, says Lucy Prebble, “I exhaled.” She is looking around Times Square with pleasure: “Here, I feel very relaxed.” It’s not the most obvious reaction to the neon-lit chaos in front of us. We pick our way around people hustling for small change and a troupe of young men in red shirts performing a dance routine, and raise our voices to hear each other over car horns and sirens.

Filming has been slow and unpredictable, she says, with daily covid testing, last-minute schedule changes and everybody “masked up like an astronaut”. Prebble and her co-writers, including the showrunner Jesse Armstrong, are in a bubble. They’re meeting later to watch “Collektiv”, a Romanian documentary about a nightclub fire and the ensuing corruption scandal . Tomorrow morning they will write two more episodes, before filming resumes in the evening.

Whether you end up “in prison...or running an empire” depends largely on the cards you were dealt when you were born Unlike many young writers, she preferred research over self-expression and was more drawn to systems than personalities: “I was always much more inspired by the top-down method, looking from above...and going, ok, what world are we creating and what happens in this world?”

By now we’ve wandered a few blocks downtown. If it weren’t so dark, we might have been able to see the triangular Flatiron building, with the towers of the financial district lurking beyond. Prebble recalls the process of developing “Enron”, her parable of corporate wrongdoing. First staged in 2009, at the height of the financial crisis, it recounts the downfall of the energy company, once a Wall Street darling, after allegations of accounting fraud.

Laughing, she remembers the look of uncomprehending blankness that came over a consultant on the financial industry, invited into the “Succession” writers’ room, when they were asked if making $2bn more could be a sufficient motive for a character who was already a billionaire. Of course it could.

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