Editor’s Note: This article contains spoilers for the series finale, Legacies.
They are just not serious people. Logan Roy knew this, and Roy’s most disappointed child was Kendall. Jeremy Strongboy boy, CEO who never led anything, lost. He was outplayed and beaten up while screaming about a deal he never had to start with despite thinking it was in the bag in the series finale. succession. He never managed to win his father’s love or admiration during his lifetime, and even after his father’s death, he still couldn’t do it.
Ultimately it was Matthew MacfadyenTom Wambsgans outwitted him with deference and “sigma” behavior - completely obeying Alexander SkarsgardLukas Matsson, the new owner of WaystarRoyco, has become the new CEO of the entire company.
Strong spoke extensively with Vanity Fair after the finale and touched on the venomous themes of masculinity that have always haunted Kendall, a man who was always just a boy in his father’s eyes - who was destined to be a loser ever since he turned down a business meeting in the first episode. series without closing the deal, just to go to his father’s birthday party. Strong recalled walking into the writer’s room at the start of the series and seeing something that didn’t leave him throughout the series. He said:
“I remember six years ago I walked into the writers’ room in Brixton or thereabouts and saw all the note cards on the wall. And at the very top was the question: is it possible to avoid legacy? Does it define you? is it, are you still defined by it?”
Can you escape the legacy?
For Strong, Kendall tried to make a name for himself outside of Logan Roy’s shadow, but he could never escape the monolith that was his father. He continued by explaining:
“I think he’s trying to achieve a version of masculinity or personality. He tries to individualize, I think in a certain way, but he has never been able to escape his father’s attracting ray. I really wanted him to get on that boat with Naomi Pierce. [Kendall’s girlfriend during his third season meltdown] and just leave it all. But he couldn’t do it.”
Despite trying to escape his father, after he left, Kendall found himself becoming a twisted version of the man he once loved and despised. “Funeral speech: ‘Oh my God, I hope it’s in me, his life force, his energy and his terrible energy’ - I was going to say that Kendall does not have this, but I think by the end we will see that he became a version of his father. Strong highlighted how similar Kendal is to Logan, saying, “There’s a ruthlessness to him. This is Michael Corleone after, as you know, he lost every last vestige of his humanity.” He also pointed out their differences: “While Logan had a kind of reptilian cruelty and primitive energy, Kendall is more like a boy. He has a sensitivity and self-awareness that I think his father didn’t have, but he also has the potential for tyranny and moral bankruptcy or immorality. I don’t know which is actually scarier, Logan Roy or Kendall Roy in power?”
Eventually, as Strong explained, the Roy family’s poison spread far beyond Waystar Royco. “The problem with this family is that our petty vices, our failures and shortcomings scale to affect the entire world,” he said, “and the consequences of our poor choices or our self-interest can shape and warp the world.” world.”
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Source: Collider
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