It’s unclear if Adrien Brody’s character Josh Aaronson was deliberately trying to set a trap for the Roys on this week’s Succession. But as he leads Logan (Brian Cox) and Kendall (Jeremy Strong) through a thick forest, and Logan’s heart nearly gives out, one thing is clear: Josh was prepared for this scenario, and the Roys absolutely were not.
You could have seen it coming, too, just from the sheer number of layers Brody’s character is wearing in the previous lunch scene. “I’ve spent a lot of time in the outdoors. I know it’s necessary to have layers,” Brody tells Vanity Fair’s Richard Lawson on this week’s episode of the Still Watching podcast. “So I pitched it in the discussions with the costume department, and they loved it. We got some extra stuff and we got really cool hiking boots for me. We threw on the ski cap and all of that.”
Brody, an Oscar winner who knows his way around some well-heeled crowds, was not just basing the look on his own enthusiasm for the wilderness. “That also comes from certain people that I know,” he continues. “They’re dialed into to where the world is at and they’re filthy rich, which is what you want. You want the people who can make change, and then have influence to divert some of that attention and resources to our environment that’s ailing.”
Above, listen to the full episode of Still Watching, which includes Lawson and Sonia Saraiya discussing the entire episode, an interview with Nicholas Braun about Greg’s incredibly awkward rum-and-Coke with Logan, and more from Brody about Josh’s private island, the power move of getting Logan and Kendall lost in the woods, and the character’s ability to smell fear.
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