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Jeremy Strong comparte con GQ cuáles son los 10 objetos sin los que no puede vivir. Al actor que interpretó a Kendall Roy en la serie “Succession”, siempre lo acompañan distintos recuerdos de las cuatro temporadas de este éxito televisivo, la carpeta donde lleva sus guiones y un par de lentes de sol hechos a la medida. Además, una buena cantidad de libros y diferentes cosas que guarda como memoria de su trayectoria actoral, también forman parte de sus esenciales.
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00:00I mean, are people normally doing like face cream and stuff like that?
00:03Is this really heavy?
00:03Yeah, this is my favorite.
00:09Hey, I'm Jeremy Strong.
00:11They do a thing called 10 Essential Items.
00:14I've clearly broken that assignment.
00:17There's more than 10 things here.
00:19These are all very important artifacts from my life that I'm sharing with you.
00:30This is from season two.
00:34This is a letter that I ripped up at a press conference.
00:39If you've seen the show, you probably know what that moment was.
00:44Oh, this is from season one.
00:46This is Kendall.
00:47I don't know if you can see it.
00:49This was on my suit after I had gone into the water at the end of season one at my sister's wedding.
00:56That was a really harrowing, difficult thing to do.
00:59But this is the only thing I've kept from that season.
01:03This I love.
01:05As you can see, I sort of already have my own version of it.
01:09I wanted something for Kendall's birthday in season three that felt colossal.
01:15Rashid Johnson is an artist that I've admired.
01:18And I saw that he had collaborated with Liz Swig based on a series of paintings that he made called the Anxious Man paintings.
01:25This was like a keystone that made everything come together for me.
01:29This is also from my birthday party.
01:32I asked him to make a drink stirrer with my face on it, like 3D printed with a crown.
01:37So they did.
01:42The end of season three, we're in Italy.
01:45And every time you do a movie or every time I do a season of this, there's always a scene that you read that you think, I can't do this and I don't know how I'm going to do this.
01:57And I just remember being in that sort of trance in this room before we shot that scene and the feeling of peril.
02:07Well, this was on the door in that room.
02:09And I guess I looked at it because part of what you have to do as an actor is get out of your way.
02:16And so I looked at it and it was kind of just telling me something about don't disturb like yourself and surrender to the uncertainty and the unknown.
02:25But that was a tough day.
02:26You know, the scene didn't go well for like nine or 10 takes.
02:29And then on the next take, I sat down on the ground, which I hadn't done before.
02:33And that's what's in the show.
02:35And that's, but that was just a result of giving up and sort of coming face to face with my own, in a sense, limits.
02:46This is pretty self-explanatory.
02:48This is a script binder that Robert Duvall gave me.
02:51So it's just something that I treasure.
02:53I went out to visit him once at his farm in Virginia, and he's got the Godfather script in one of these same, same binders, same company, same stenciling and everything.
03:04I find this object both very meaningful given who it came from.
03:08You know, I've learned a lot from him.
03:10I think he's one of the greatest actors of all time.
03:12But what's scary about holding this right now is that it is really just at this point, the exoskeleton that is going to contain something that I don't know what that thing will be next.
03:24So it's, it's sort of a steadying and comforting and reinforcing to have this kind of embracing it.
03:32And then the thing on the inside will be, I guess, the next risk and attempt at doing something.
03:43Jacques-Marie Mage, sunglasses, the best company making sunglasses right now.
03:48Jérôme Mage, a Frenchman who lives in L.A.
03:51I have been very deliberate about Kendall sunglasses, and I'd worn some of his frames last year, and I kind of sent up a flare and reached out to him and asked him if we could collaborate on something for this season.
04:08So he, his frames are made in Japan and, and he went there and I pitched him sort of the colorway that I liked and this old model that they didn't make anymore.
04:21He made me, well, he made Kendall these sunglasses and Kendall's initials, Kendall Logan Roy, KLR, are written on the inside.
04:36I have my pair, which also say KLR, and Kendall's pair.
04:47So I do know where one ends and where the other begins.
04:49So I've never shown this to anyone.
04:59This has sat on my desk for like over 20 years.
05:02These are like artifacts from work I've done since my early 20s.
05:07This cup was from a play that I did called A Matter of Choice in a storefront on 39th Street.
05:14And I guess I'll just kind of dump some stuff out.
05:20This is a cherry bomb from The Trial of Chicago 7.
05:24I lit as Jerry Rubin in a scene demonstrating how to make a cherry bomb to, to the students in a class.
05:30This is a watch that I wore in the first movie I ever did called Humboldt County.
05:36Wow. I mean, I haven't touched these things in a long time.
05:40That's from Molly's Game.
05:41I used to be able to do all kinds of poker tricks, but I can't anymore.
05:44You forget, you know, you, when you do these things, you fill yourself up with
05:49all kinds of visceral understanding, but also whatever skills you need to do it.
05:53But they leave you when it's done.
05:54I don't even know what this is.
05:58Double Smirnoff Rocks.
06:02This is when Kendall goes off the wagon in Arizona from the end of the first season.
06:08I called a friend of mine who was recently sober and I said,
06:12what would you order if, if you were going to go off the wagon?
06:16And so this is from this bar in Arizona.
06:18The first play I did off Broadway, a play called Defiance by John Patrick Shanley.
06:25I played a Marine.
06:27There was a letter written by a soldier who was in Vietnam that he wrote home to his parents.
06:32And he ended the letter saying, we are all in desperate need of love.
06:37So that's what this says on here.
06:39A story about the Velveteen Rabbit that I was going to tell to my kids on Succession that we,
06:48that we shot that didn't make it into the show.
06:50Just an improvised story that I asked Jesse if I could do.
06:54This is from a Eugene O'Neill play called Huey that I'd seen Pacino do.
06:58I tried to do myself when I was an undergrad in college.
07:01And so I did, I did that play.
07:03And this is probably the oldest thing I have.
07:05I did this maybe when I was 19.
07:06Vinnie Daniels character I play in the big short.
07:11This is all I kept from it.
07:13You know, there's a Stanley Kunitz poem called The Layers.
07:15And he says, I have walked through many lives, some of them my own.
07:19So these feel like fragments of lives that I've walked through.
07:22And this is all that's left of any of them, really.
07:25I mean, the truth is, these are such a big part of your life.
07:28And there's a strange finality when they're over, they're just over.
07:32I know they might exist on celluloid or on TV, but I don't go back and watch anything.
07:36And so I guess I keep little artifacts, you know, I mean, this is the first time I've
07:41ever taken them out.
07:42So I'm not sure to what end, but they do kind of take me back to different selves that I've walked through.
07:48This is a record of Glenn Gould's recording, first recording.
07:57He did two recordings of the Goldberg Variations by Bach.
08:01It's a piece of music that I've loved for my adult life.
08:05I listen to it all the time.
08:07Glenn Gould was a really eccentric individual.
08:11And he broke all the rules about what was considered appropriate kinds of concert pianist protocol.
08:19He would hum, exclaim and make sounds while he was playing.
08:25And he said something that I wrote down that I think about sometimes.
08:29He said that the purpose of art is not a momentary ejection of adrenaline,
08:34but rather the lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.
08:39So that's what I think about when I think about Glenn Gould.
08:43His piano playing is beautiful and incomparable and ecstatic,
08:47and probably would be the piece of music I want to listen to,
08:51if I am lucky enough to choose the piece of music I want to listen to at the end.
08:55I use music a lot.
08:56Depending on the emotional valence of a scene,
09:00music can help me enter into a deeper place in myself that I might need to come from.
09:06So music is an access point for me.
09:09Derek DelGaudio is an incredible artist, illusionist, magician,
09:20who had a one-man show called In and of Itself, and they turned it into a film.
09:25It's on Hulu.
09:26I urge everyone to watch it because it's one of the more astonishing things I've ever seen.
09:30When you go into the show, you pick out a card from a wall.
09:35I am something, something that feels self-identifying.
09:39At the end of the show, he tells each person,
09:43the hundreds of people in the audience, what card they picked.
09:47The Ruletista is a central character in the story that he tells,
09:52who is essentially someone who played Russian roulette to great success,
09:58and was willing to risk everything, every time,
10:02and exists on that precipice of danger.
10:06Derek in the show talks about himself being the Ruletista,
10:11and he sent this to me.
10:13He said that he had not sent this to anyone else,
10:15but he sent this card to me, so it was profoundly meaningful to me.
10:19Rilke said that surely all great art is the product of having been in danger.
10:24This is a person who is willing to endanger himself again and again and again and again.
10:28This is a book of paintings by Howard Hodgkin, who was a famous British painter, incredible painter.
10:38I was in London, and I was working, and I walked into the National Portrait Gallery,
10:43and there was an exhibition of this guy's work, and I hadn't heard of him.
10:48What he does is he sort of takes moments in time that were profound moments for him,
10:54or moments that really struck him in a certain way, and then he tries to translate those moments
10:59pictorially, so he's painting the feeling of moments in time.
11:05He would also paint over the frame of his paintings, behind the hedge.
11:11I find them just incredibly moving, simple, deep, moving.
11:16As an actor, that's your palette as well.
11:20Your palette is your own experiences and memories and feelings that you try to bring
11:26in an abstract way using someone else's words.
11:29You float those words on top of an undercurrent of feeling, and so something about these paintings
11:39just resonated with me.
11:40I mean, this is like a five-hour conversation right here, so I'm not really sure.
11:49These are all books that have been really important books to me.
11:53Alma Mahler's Diaries, a composer herself married to Klimt and Mahler, who talks about the dichotomy
12:03inside people of what she calls the loving soul and the calculating soul.
12:07And her belief was these creators that were in her life, these great creators of the 20th century,
12:13made work of real value when they were operating from the loving soul rather than the calculating soul.
12:19It's a great book.
12:21The Spectator Bird, Wallace Stegner, takes place in Denmark, which is a place that I now live,
12:27but I read this before I even knew where it was on a map, I think.
12:30He talks about the pain in every choice when we're younger.
12:35We're in this life of sort of infinite possibility, but I think to become an adult is to collapse choices,
12:40to make choices, and to lose that sense of infinite possibility.
12:45Robert Johnson, this is sort of Jungian dream work, stuff about the shadow, the part of ourselves
12:53that we've disavowed, but is still there, always there. That's a big part of Kendall.
12:58That's been a lot of the subtext of the show.
13:03My favorite play, The Caretaker by Harold Pinter.
13:07Incredible book on acting, probably if I could pick one book on acting for if a young actor was like,
13:13what should I read? I would say this book.
13:16Jon Kabat-Zinn, he is a remarkable man who is a mindfulness teacher.
13:23MIT-trained scientist. He created something called Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.
13:27I've gone on some retreats, silent retreats with him.
13:30Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot.
13:32When I was 18, I went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
13:35The principal told us all to go out and get this book.
13:38He said, it's the only thing you ever need to know about acting.
13:40I kind of agree.
13:42There's a line in here about a condition of complete simplicity costing not less than everything.
13:47I've already quoted this dude.
13:54Proust, In Search of Lost Time.
13:56You know, I spent a couple years in my early 20s working in room service and waiting tables.
14:00And these books kind of saved me because I didn't have much of a social life.
14:04I didn't have any money.
14:05There's so much of what anyone would hope to learn about life contained in these volumes.
14:10And then number one for me is My Struggle by Karl Knausgaard, Norwegian writer, contemporary
14:19Norwegian writer.
14:20It's the most honest expression of life that I've ever read anywhere.
14:24He writes in this incredibly granular way.
14:27He'll spend 40 pages talking about taking his four-year-old daughter to a party and the shoes
14:32that she wants to wear.
14:34And the effect of it, the accumulative effect of it by being in such granular detail of life
14:39is you see the beauty and the sacredness in those small moments.
14:44And you realize that there are no small moments.
14:46That's my fast version of these books.
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