WAITITI: I love improvising as long as it’s got somewhere to go, and there’s a point to it. Sometimes we’ll throw in bits of improvised things about our childhood that are just for us because we like creating our own background. It comes from a more natural place and less of, “Let’s improvise and do some funny things that they’re going to maybe use or not.” But we definitely show up and give alt lines. I want to interrupt.” I want to ask them questions while we’re talking so it feels more natural. WAITITI: Is there much improvising around that stuff?ĬULKIN: For me, it’s more the Jeff Goldblum thing. I don’t really care what you have to say.” And we just go back and forth until she gets back to her point. She’ll be in the middle of her dialogue, and I’ll interrupt her, and she’ll be like, “What the fuck? I’m talking here.” And I’m like, “Yeah, I know you’re talking. Sarah Snook is one of the greatest scene partners ever.

Then there’s stuff that I didn’t realize I’d picked up from him. On day one, he was going up to the crew and talking to all of them on a first name basis, and I was like, “That’s really cool.” I found out that he’ll get a crew list before a show and try to memorize it.ĬULKIN: Now, ever since I was 18, I ask for a crew list. Such a wonderful man.ĬULKIN: There was stuff that I learned from him specifically. That makes me so happy that you said that. WAITITI: Dude! Stop! I was just going to say Jeff Goldblum. I picked up that trick from Jeff Goldblum, who you’ve worked with. It’s so annoyingly slick.ĬULKIN: The talking over is encouraged and gets me comfortable with the rhythm of what we’re doing. Because I’m always like, “Everyone’s so good and there’s constant talking over everyone.” It’s just surprise after surprise, and not in a way where the craft-and fuck, I hate that word-but where the craft is super evident. WAITITI: I was watching this episode, and I’m so cynical now because I watch things and I’m like, “Is that how they thought they should do it?” I haven’t felt that on this show at all. And then I saw it last night, and I guess I don’t know what I was expecting. So it was very important that we killed ourselves working on it. I think because that was such a hard episode to shoot that I maybe built it up as something else, and it was one of the best pieces of writing I’d ever worked with. It’s actually good that we pushed this because I got to see one of the greatest episodes ever last night, including some of the best acting ever.ĬULKIN: Thank you. The director Taika Waititi joined him on Zoom to help him process it.ĬULKIN: Pardon my five minutes being late. After Succession creator Jesse Armstrong shocked the world by announcing that the fourth season of the hit HBO show would be its last, Culkin was left to face a future without the character that made him a household name. Kieran Culkin was in his Brooklyn apartment, just a few weeks removed from saying his final fucks as Roman Roy.

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