A guided tour of Succession’s descent into birthday hell with director LoreneScafaria
“Every detail down to the placement of the gifts was something we hoped would give Jeremy the right container to be completely free in.” Photo: HBO Lorene Scafaria is the director of such films as Hustlers and The Meddler, but she’s also a devoted television fan, and as it happens, her favorite show, maybe of all time, is HBO’s Succession.
How would you describe the visual language of this show? And what’s the relationship to your own style? My perception of your movies is that they don’t feel as volatile and loose as Succession. The show is this ever-evolving thing. Lines are constantly being cut and added, things are changed on the fly.
With something like this, where you’ve maybe got a really juicy five-minute stretch of dialogue, you want to make extra sure the cameras are where they need to be. Everyone needs to be able to pivot and move within the scene and feel free.Blocking the characters of Succession was something I was really excited to do. Logan’s office, especially, was that for me.
Besides blocking, what skills did you acquire and what lessons did you learn through theater that have proved useful in filmmaking? Photo: HBO I want to go through some of the scenes and sets with you and get a few reactions to them starting with the tree house. What are your impressions and memories of that part of the location?
That seems like a movie Kendall might have seen and wanted to bring to life at this event. The most enjoyable thing about being on all the sets that Stephen and his team put together was you knew where it was all coming from. You knew it was all the result of these absurd requests that were made, most of which had to be realized whether Kendall was ever going to actually walk through the finished rooms or not.
I love how the siblings all play off each other and react to each other, and I love seeing how their father thinks of each of them. You see his attitudes resonating within them. Those nuances do so much. The jockeying for position, the nonstop wrestling match between the siblings: I think that’s why I think why people watch the show.When we saw the drawings the first time, I couldn’t believe we were actually going to get to do this. We’re sitting here choosing the right shade of pink.
How many takes did you do of Culkin throwing the phone into the urinal? Was it a real phone? Did Skarsgård provide the stream? Jeremy and I had a great connection. We’re both musical people, so I told him I directed with my ears as much as with my eyes. We bonded over that. We shared songs with each other and kept that party going on set together. The presents scene was one we talked about a lot, but we stopped after a certain point because we didn’t want to talk it into the ground.
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