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Succession Director Mark Mylod Had to “Walk a Tight Rope” To Nail the Finale

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The Boardroom Scene

It was all part of the same take actually we just kept rolling once you know when he started to climb the railing. There was a lot of debate in the editor to whether actually it should be part of the cut because it was very strong. Jesse and I both felt that actually a more kind of purgatory place for the character was ultimately better. Just putting him in that bench stuck between those two cold places of the cold ocean and the cold future was actually ultimately a perhaps more powerful way to leave the character.

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