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Actor Alan Ruck’s Road to ‘Succession’

2023/5/21
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Today, we’re joined by actor Alan Ruck! At the top, we dive into the Election Day episode of Succession (4:00), the ensemble’s first table read during the 2016 presidential race (7:23), and how that fateful night shaped the arc of the series (8:59). Then, we walk through Ruck’s iconic role of Cameron Frye in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (9:54), memories on set with Matthew Broderick (12:05), and his winding path that followed (17:19).

On the back-half, he describes a mid-90s stretch of performances in Speed,* Twister*, and* Spin City *(24:37), a serious medical emergency he endured (26:22), and how it shaped his new perspective on art-making, leading him to *Succession *(29:48). To close, we discuss Ruck's process crafting the character of Connor Roy (32:27), a pivotal scene from *Ferris Bueller’s Day Off *(37:50), and his hopes for the years to come (43:04).

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