Jeremy Strong Seems to Claps Back at “Succession” Costars Brian Cox and Kieran Culkin After Their Digs About His Acting

"Lately, people have felt a need to take shots at me or say disparaging things, which I don’t really think there’s any need for," Strong said after his 'Succession' costars criticized his perspective on acting

Succession stars Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin and Jeremy Strong all continue to have differing approaches to acting — and continue to voice those differences. 

In a Jan. 7 interview with Deadline, Strong shed some light on his method acting process and how he was able to prepare for his role as Roy Cohn in the new film about President-elect Donald Trump, The Apprentice.

The 46-year-old actor — who played Kendall Roy, the son of Waystar Royco founder Logan Roy (Cox) on Succession — revealed his process of depicting real people is by getting to "absorb and learn everything and study them endlessly.”

But as he continued, he seemingly hit back at his Succession costars, who have both recently criticized his approach to acting.

“Lately, people have felt a need to take shots at me or say disparaging things, which I don’t really think there’s any need for," Strong said. "The way I approach things, my process. I feel we’re storytellers… That’s the kind of acting that I love. And it does require a kind of, I don’t know, devil may care attitude towards what anybody might think of what you’re doing."

The Emmy winner continued, "I brought that up just because it’s been on my mind, and I guess I feel like it’s connected to the movie in a certain way."

Weeks earlier, Culkin and Cox both referenced Strong’s approach to acting and explained why they disagree with it.

Culkin, 42, said during a Dec. 17 Variety “Actors on Actors” conversation with Colman Domingo that he "object[s] when actors call themselves 'storytellers.'"

"I don't really like that," Culkin said, before he directly mentioned his onscreen brother. "Sorry, Jeremy.”

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Cox also spoke with The Guardian for a Dec. 7 article, saying he disagreed with Strong's method of immersing himself in the characters he plays.

Although Cox, 78, said Strong “was wonderful to act with,” he noted, “He would be an even better actor if he just got rid of that, so there would be much more inclusiveness in what he did. It’s not good for the ensemble. It creates hostility. That’s the problem."

Cox noted that he never directly spoke to his costar about his perspective, which Strong has often spoke publicly about on various talk show appearances and to various news outlets.

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But while Strong may not agree with his Succession costars, he reiterated to Deadline how his approach to acting seems to be intrinsic to his identity. As he told the outlet, when he was around 12 years old in 1993 when he went to Los Angeles with his dad to audition for pilots.

“While we were there, the Academy Awards were happening, and I begged my dad to take me down there and watch from the bleachers. I just thought it was the most exciting thing in the world,” he said, recalling that it was the year when Al Pacino was nominated for Scent Of A Woman and Robert Downey Jr. was nominated for Chaplin.

“I slept overnight on the bleachers with my dad, and it was freezing cold. I don’t think I fell asleep at all because it was just indescribably exciting to be there. I remember watching these people who were larger than life to me, walk on the carpet," he continued. "My poor dad shivering, because he gave me his jacket to keep me warm."

"I feel it’s just crazy to me that I get to do this with my life and I don’t take any of it for granted. So that’s also part of why I want to give it so much," he added. "I don’t know any other way of doing it. I want to give it everything."

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The recent comments aren't the first time that Strong's costars have criticized his approach to acting.

Cox previously spoke out about Strong's approach to acting, telling Town & Country in February 2023, "It's f---ing annoying. Don't get me going on it." At the time, he claimed that Strong often blurred the lines between knowing a character and becoming him, calling his costar "that guy [after a take]" who would "lose it" if "he feels if he went somewhere else."

Cox then added, "Strong is talented. He's f---ing gifted. When you've got the gift, celebrate the gift. Go back to your trailer and have a hit of marijuana, you know?"

In a 2021 New Yorker profile, Cox also expressed a level of concern for Strong's commitment to Kendall Roy. "The result that Jeremy gets is always pretty tremendous," he said. "I just worry about what he does to himself. I worry about the crises he puts himself through in order to prepare."

In the same feature, Strong said, "To me, the stakes are life and death. ... I take [Kendall] as seriously as I take my own life."