'Succession' star Nicholas Braun: Cousin Greg 'feels unsafe all the time'

Nicholas Braun, actor: Greg is betwixt aggregate imaginable places to land. I deliberation Greg feels unsafe each the time. He doesn't cognize ever wherever the safest places [are], particularly this season. There's the menace of going to jail. There's a batch of places for Greg to get knocked down. That's a large portion of his play -- however bash I bash this? Where bash I go?

CNN: Going into this season, was it astatine each your anticipation that helium would find a person -- similar a existent one? Someone extracurricular of the household who doesn't person an ulterior motive and idiosyncratic who could beryllium like, 'Greg, are you okay?'

Totally. I deliberation Greg truly needs idiosyncratic to inquire him if he's okay. I deliberation he's benignant of lonely successful this world. There's ever Tom for immoderate mentation of companionship. But, yeah, I deliberation Greg does request a friend. He does commencement a narration with idiosyncratic this twelvemonth -- starts to, astatine least. [He] seeks a relationship. It doesn't needfully enactment the mode helium wants to, but that's a bully portion of maturation for him. But what you said is close -- helium does request idiosyncratic and thing that feels bully successful this world. Nothing truly feels bully ever. Everything feels bad.

Which describes a batch of radical connected this show, I suppose. Do you ever deliberation astir what Greg wants from life? What is helium truly seeking being portion of this world?

I deliberation astir that a lot. I mean, I deliberation helium wants the proximity to power, the proximity to influence, oregon this ellipse that influences a batch of people. I deliberation helium ever wanted to beryllium portion of this broadside of the family.

Him and his grandpa don't get on that. There's not a batch of chemistry betwixt those 2 guys. His grandpa is besides similar stingy and doesn't sharing immoderate of the money. And his mom, who we met concisely successful the archetypal season, is simply a spot of a headcase. He conscionable wanted retired of that beingness and into the 1 that's successful the nationalist oculus and successful.

Once you get successful that, I deliberation it's precise addictive. When you tin get connected yachts and backstage planes and person each the spoils of it, it's beauteous exciting. I deliberation hard to imagine, "I conjecture I'll spell backmost to surviving with my mom." So however tin you survive? And past however tin you leap forward? I deliberation he's acquiring the skills successful bid to bash that.

Do you ever wonderment what benignant of teen helium was? What brought him to the constituent of being this feline benignant of has assurance but lacks the quality to execute it successful a way?

I deliberation helium is an lone kid and was benignant of protected by his mother. I deliberation helium wanted to interruption out.

Personality wise, possibly helium was a spot of...I spot him arsenic similar a skater oregon [someone who] smoked a batch of weed. Maybe helium dealt drugs successful mediate schoolhouse -- dealt weed to kids successful mediate schoolhouse oregon precocious school. Maybe helium was his ain small entrepreneur and [that was how] helium showed helium had a small entrepreneurial tone there. I deliberation helium was conscionable a spot of a mess, and his parent wasn't similar helping him beryllium like, "Get retired there, son." She was similar holding him back. So helium goes retired determination and Logan's like, "Come connected successful here, buddy." And that feels truly good. .

The main happening missing for maine successful this Greg puzzle is he's this 20-something surviving successful the large metropolis from determination else: Where are his friends oregon pieces of his past life?

[Executive producer] Jesse [Armstrong] and I person talked astir it. We deliberation that helium has similar immoderate person group, you know, coworkers from Waystar -- chap low-level radical and enforcement assistants. But we don't spot them astir apt conscionable due to the fact that there's truthful overmuch going connected successful this show. You spot 1 of them successful occurrence two, this girl. Anyway, I perceive you. It is portion of being a young idiosyncratic successful New York, particularly similar successful this world. He can't spell implicit and similar person meal with Shiv and Tom.

What's comic is that I've seen these betting likelihood for who's going to instrumentality implicit the company, and Greg is this acheronian horse. Do you deliberation radical mostly underestimate him?

Actually, the nationalist does not underestimate Greg. A batch of radical travel up to maine and they're like, "I cognize you're going to get the full thing. I cognize that you're going to instrumentality over. You're going to beryllium astatine the top." I could spot Greg being astatine the apical for, like, 5 minutes. It's similar each of a abrupt thing happens and he's like, "Am I the...am I the CEO?" And everyone's like, "Yeah, you are." And past thing happens precise rapidly -- "No, that was a mistake." But who knows? I anticipation helium keeps rising the ranks.