In the wrong hands she could seem like a stone-cold bitch,’ says co-executive producer Georgia Pritchett, also one of the show’s team of writers. ‘I actually think Shiv is an incredibly difficult part to play. She’s ‘Shiv f-king Roy’ and she embodies one of the delightfully unpredictable elements that run through the heart of Succession – the fact that despite being a woman, she doesn’t turn out to have a heart of gold. What’s so lovable about a character whom even one of her creators has called ‘a flawed, monstrous nightmare’? It’s her pale hair, her razor-sharp retorts, her sidelong looks, her stealth-wealth wardrobe, her strangely expressive face and manipulative ways.
‘You lucky bitch,’ said my friend, when I mentioned I was going to New York to interview Sarah Snook, who plays her in the hit HBO series Succession.
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