Nicholas Braun has a message for all of the fans who wished extra for Greg within the Succession collection finale: Greg will come out on high.
The Saturday Night star stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon forward of the theatrical launch of the upcoming movie, by which he performs each Andy Kaufman and Jim Henson. During the late evening dialog, the host requested the Emmy-nominated actor about his ideas on the Succession collection finale.
“I thought the episode was amazing,” Braun advised Jimmy Fallon. “Fans are kind of generally, like, a little bit upset at how it ended with Greg. And they’ll come up to me — and he did great — but some people are like, you know, ‘He should have gotten it all.’ Like, ‘I thought he was going to, you know, get everything.'”
He continued, “And I’m like, ‘He kind of did. Like, he’s that close.’ Like, you know, if you do one more season, he takes over Tom. He’ll jump. So, you know, give us one more and it’s Greg time.”
Succession ended with Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen) popping out on high as CEO of Waystar Royco after Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgard) purchased it, and Shiv (Sarah Snook) selected him over Kendall (Jeremy Strong) to lead the corporate.
Greg, after taking part in the sector a bit and betraying Tom by telling the siblings what was happening behind the scenes with Matsson, Tom forgives him and tells Greg he’s bringing him with him.
“One way to think about it is that the deal, the sort of contract that Tom offers Greg at the end of season three about joining him on the dark side and ‘sell your soul,’ basically, and, ‘I’ll take care of you,'” Braun beforehand advised The Hollywood Reporter about why he thinks Tom forgave Greg. “That’s the promise, and I think he’s keeping that promise. He’s saying, ‘I know you are doing shit, which is basically selling your soul. And I just want to say: I got you.’ And maybe there is some pride in it for Tom, like when Greg tries to blackmail him with the documents. And Tom can’t go into this CEO position without a wingman.”
While part of the Cat Person star would’ve preferred to see Kendall Roy ascend the Waystar Royco throne, one other half feels prefer it was extra satisfying for the successor to be Tom as a result of there could have been one thing “underwhelming” concerning the siblings getting it.
“There’s something about giving it to Tom, giving it to an outsider,” Braun famous. “Tom and Greg are both outsiders and the fact that those two guys end up together winning, that just feels like such a big ending and the right way to go out.”
