The stars and team behind the HBO series discuss season three and why it's a misconception that the Roy family's wealth is at the root of their dysfunction.
“I agree with Kieran, it’s not something I find I ever think about — the wealth feels incidental to me and window-dressing in a way,” added Jeremy Strong, who stars as the Roy family heir apparent Kendall Roy. “[Psychoanalyst Carl] Jung had said that where love is absent power fills the vacuum. I think about love and power, and where they are on the indexes.
“I don’t think it’s different from any family,” chimed in Brian Cox, who stars as patriarch Logan Roy in the series. “It’s very much a reflection on how human beings live, of how we shift and how we dance.” “Whether we’re in Croatia or Tuscany, or in these fabulous hotels, [the characters] are always miserable,” pointed out J. Smith-Cameron, who plays the Roy family’s general counsel Gerri Killman. “All these people have everything money could buy, and they’re just struggling and scrapping and miserable.”
Showrunner Jesse Armstrong largely declined to answer the question, and suggested he doesn’t like to publicly interpret the show’s meaning and themes. That said, he did tackle a question of whetherwas feeling some pressure after the success of its first two seasons to ratchet up the drama for its third round.
“No, I don’t think it’s like we’re an action movie and we’ve blown this up and, can we blow up something bigger?” Armstrong said. “The good things is…the longer people are [watching] … the relationships become more like a family you’ve known. The longer you’ve known them, the more terrible and fascinating it is when they get divorced or they’re happy when they have a child.
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