The last time Jeremy Strong and I met, on a humid afternoon in Brooklyn in the summer of 2019, him merrily quoting Dostoevsky, Flaubert and Balzac — as Strong is wont to do, lobbing literary references about in the sticky air like shuttlecocks — he also declared: “Success, maybe even an awareness of success, is anathema to creative work.” The next day the 41-year-old actor flew to Croatia to film the final episode of Succession’s second season, the last three minutes of which would feature a plot twist that, a year on, has fans still picking their shattered jaws up off the floor.
Today we’re back in Brooklyn, although separated by screens this time. And 36 hours earlier, Strong won the outstanding lead actor
