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Creator Jesse Armstrong on the Ending of ‘Succession’

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The Origin Story of Succession

I was reading a piece that went up on The Guardian that you wrote about the sort of influences on succession. And I was struck by just how many, you know, obviously real life figures you were drawing on. You take that and you combine it with the thing that leaps out at me is the sort of shades of this, as many people put out, like the Shakespearean elements of the show. There's things that happen in this show that aren't in a biography and they're not in Henry VIII, they're they're, they're real.

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