-Our next guest is a wonderful actress
who earned an Emmy nomination for her role as Shiv Roy
on the hit series "Succession."
The highly-anticipated third season premieres
Sunday, October 17th on HBO and to stream on HBO Max.
Here's a clip.
Oh, right. They wouldn't send one.
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-Please welcome back to the show
and to the studio for the first time,
Sarah Snook!
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-I am delighted to have you here in person.
-Yeah. It's good to be here.
-I got to have you -- we Zoomed over the pandemic,
but this is so much nicer.
-Yeah, absolutely. -Yeah. It's real life.
-It's still unnerving, but it's in real life.
-Also nice to have you back in New York City,
and I know you sort of came from Australia to do press
and we were talking backstage --
you will basically have to quarantine
when you get back to Australia for as long as you were here.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
-Yeah, which is why this is unnerving.
Being in person with anybody right now.
-Yeah, exactly.
They're like, "Were you anywhere with a bunch of people?"
And you're like, "Uh..."
-There's no evidence anywhere. Don't worry about it.
-You spent some time living in Brooklyn, yeah?
-Yeah. -Did you like it?
-I love it. I love Brooklyn.
It's like...I don't know, Brooklyn's like --
[ Applause ] -Yeah, right?
It's great. I don't know.
Brooklyn's like, the fighty, little brother to Manhattan
or like the Australia to America.
It's like, on the outside looking in,
but you get the better view.
-Do you think that you --
do you find everything is sibling rivalries
now that you're on "Succession"?
-Yeah, I mean, weirdly,
I don't have much of a sibling rivalry with my sisters, though,
so I guess so, I do.
-Are you the youngest of three?
-Yeah. -Okay.
You know, I'm wondering --
one of the things that's so much fun watching you guys as actors,
it's very clear that you like each other.
Mostly because you are being definitely mean to
people that in real life, you care about.
-Yes.
-Is there anyone you like being mean to the most?
-Kieran. -Kieran.
-Totally.
-I was gonna say, I've met Kieran and he's lovely,
but I think he'd be super fun to be mean to.
-Oh, yeah, but he's also super mean to just to be fun,
you know, like, to you.
-Right. -That's the way he shows love.
-Is it true that you guys early on,
before you knew each other well, had to be, like,
physical in a scene together?
-Yeah, well, we had to fight -- like, wrestle, and yeah.
I mean, this was like, the first episode back
in the first season shooting and we had to wrestle,
and we tried -- you know, the stunt coordinator's there
and he's like, teaching us how to do it properly
so we don't hurt each other, and then finally, Kieran's like,
"Can I just slap you? It's gonna be easier."
I was like, "Okay, sure. For this one, fine."
And he slaps me, and there's a sibling kick that happened,
and I just went for him.
And then he knows WWE for some reason.
He's a tiny, little wrestler.
He's just obsessed with watching it.
And he just knew how to do all the holds,
so I thought I was winning for awhile,
but then, like, he got me up against the wall
and like, pulled me down.
-And then when you watched it, did you realize,
"Oh, that's the take they used, when we fully went for it."
-Yeah, 100%. Yeah.
Because you can see in my eyes, like,
there's some little thing that goes, "Oh, [bleep]."
It's like a little fly swat or something.
"Get away from me."
-Do you ever, when you have time off --
like, I know you had a big, obviously layoff during COVID.
Do you try to come up with things
that you think Shiv would say?
Like, Shiv terminology?
-Yeah. The thing is, though...
I mean, I found this word, "yoga babble."
Have you heard that?
-Yoga babble? No. -Yeah, yoga babble.
Yoga babble's like the encompassing word
for bull[bleep], I guess.
It's like, business world bull[bleep].
But I feel like anything in business is yoga babble to me,
in a little way.
I feel like Business Cat when I'm learning about
all the business things.
You know, mergers and all this stuff.
I'm like the business cat who does this.
You know that gif just doing this?
-You're the extra in the background at a computer.
-Business business business.
You don't do this anymore.
It's laptops here. -You're very convincing.
You're very convincing as someone who,
it's becoming clear now,
knows nothing about the character you're playing.
-I'm an actor. I just do what I'm told.
-Matthew MacFadyen, your wonderful costar,
was here yesterday, and I asked him about Brian Cox.
I'm fascinated by Brian Cox, who I've never met.
I said, "He seems irascible, but I'm sure he's sweet."
What's your answer to that?
-The same. Exactly.
He's irascible. No, he's lovely. He's a big teddy bear.
He loves, you know, being loud and rambunctious.
-We had to blur his face mask, because this is what he wore
to the premiere last night.
It's #TeamLoganRoy,
and see if you guys can guess what's blurred out.
[ Laughing ]
-Just so you can understand what he was about to say.
-Yep. -Through the mask.
-Nominated for an Emmy, but I heard
you won another prestigious award that I was unaware of.
-Oh. [ Laughs ]
-The Meryl Streep Acting Award.
-Yeah. Did you know about this? -I didn't know about --
-When I was 11? What?
-Okay, so you're 11 years old.
Who gave out the Meryl Streep Acting Award?
-My Year 6 teacher, Mr. Cornish.
I mean, he gave awards to everybody.
Everybody in the class got an award,
and I just happened to get the Meryl Streep Award,
because I was really the loudest and more performative one.
I mean, I'm sure that there was an Einstein Award,
and I'm sure there was --
-Now, did you know at the time this was not a real award?
Or did you go off to Year 7 being like,
"Make way for the Meryl Streep winner."
-The queen is here.
Yeah, definitely.
Yeah, I took that home. I still have it somewhere.
It's like, in my collection of stuff.
-As well you should. You don't get rid of something like that.
-No, I mean, it was made on wood,
and I'm sure there was that paperclip on there somewhere,
but it's still in my stuff.
-We talked about how people were very taken with Shiv
as well as Shiv's look.
You know, she has a very unique fashion sense
which I think people were drawn to,
because they love the show so much.
Halloween's coming around. You have seen, right?
You have seen people dress up like Shiv for Halloween.
-I have, yeah. -That's really high praise.
-Yeah, but isn't it the easiest Halloween costume ever?
It's just donning a red wig, bob sort of thing
and putting on a turtleneck and high-waisted pants.
I mean, I've got the red hair,
but I can't wear turtlenecks or high-waisted pants anywhere,
'cause I look like I'm a Halloween costume.
-That would be like an athlete wearing his uniform out.
-Yeah.
-Hey, can I do -- I have a really good Kendall Roy.
Can I do it for you? -Oh, yes.
-Okay great. Okay.
[ As Kendall Roy ] Uh...
Dad?
-Very good. -Thank you.
-Very good.
That's like, wow.
It was the spirit. Yeah, the spirit was in the room.
Yeah, it was the pause.
-You must be so psyched
that people get to see the show again.
I mean, we were so -- I think everybody,
after the cliffhanger of Season 2,
was chomping at the bit to see it again.
Do you feel great excitement that the rest of the world
gets to see what you've done?
-Oh, yeah, totally.
And also, the anticipation that I've been feeling,
from between working, being shut down
and then waiting to work and like,
wanting to know what happens next,
finally getting to know what happens next.
I know that anticipation, so I sympathize.
And getting to see the episodes finally, myself,
it's like -- I'm a big fan of the show as well,
because we don't get to see what Greg and Tom does.
Or we don't get to see
what Brian's doing with all the other scenes.
I love getting to watch the show as well.
-That's great.
I'm so excited and I just want to tell you
this is a big deal for us.
You're the first Meryl Streep winner
ever to be here.
And maybe even last.
-Maybe. -Unless you come back,
which we would love to have you back.
You guys, Sarah Snook!
"Succession" returns for its third season
October 17th on HBO and to stream on HBO Max.
We'll be right back with more "Late Night."