There’s great freedom within the structure of both the script and the way it’s shot. I had a great call with Jesse Armstong while I was still in London, and he explained to me how they approach shooting each scene, which is very precise and also very liberating. What struck you about the way that Succession was made, particularly?
The way this show is made is so different from The Great, so it was very attractive to go into something completely different. And the idea of somebody with professional integrity dropped into the midst of the Roys’ world has got to be an incredibly fun role to play. I immediately thought of Steve Kornacki, whom I really admire - he’s such a wonderful, quirky character himself. From the very first episode I was completely in.ĭarwin is sort of the Steve Kornacki of ATN. Professionally in awe of how they make it. Like so many others, I was just obsessed with it. Were you a fan of the show before getting cast in this episode? I was in London, and I got a call from my agents, saying, “Yeah, can you get on a plane in a couple of days to shoot an episode of Succession?” I was like, “I think, yes, I can do that.”
We were just finishing up the third season of The Great. All in all, that’s a tough night for Darwin and democracy as a whole, but it was a fun episode to film for Godley, a regular player on television and the stage who was already a big fan of Succession before he got the chance to drop into ATN. Along the way, Greg manages to get wasabi in Darwin’s eyes and tries to get it out by pouring lemon-flavored LaCroix over his face. Darwin soon gets overruled - though allowed the caveat that they’re making the call “pending” - and then steamrolled by Roman and Kendall, who opt to call the election in favor of Mencken once results from Arizona make it clear the state is going red. Notably, Darwin resists calling Wisconsin in favor of Roman’s preferred candidate, the fascist nationalist Jeryd Mencken, after a vandalism incident destroys a significant number of Milwaukee absentee ballots that Shiv insists would push things in favor of her preferred candidate, the Democrat Daniel Jimenez. In Succession’s big Election Night episode, the series introduces the very far right-leaning news network’s resident voting analyst, a guy named Darwin (Adam Godley) who finds his attempts to accurately analyze the data overruled by the whims of his superiors. Poor Darwin he’s just not someone who evolved to thrive at ATN. Spoilers follow for Succession season four, episode eight, “ America Decides. “I got a call from my agents, saying, ‘Yeah, can you get on a plane in a couple of days to shoot an episode of Succession?’ I was like, ‘I think, yes, I can do that.’”
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