Alan Ruck Talks Earning His First Emmy Nomination For ‘Succession’ Final Season & Supporting An Actors’ Strike: “I’ll Be Out There On The Picket Line”
12.07.2023 - 21:13
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Alan Ruck was ready to get in a workout when he found out he’d been nominated for an Emmy.
The actor tells Deadline that he answered a call from his manager, who himself was enjoying a vacation in Italy, as he drove to the gym. “So he started to tell me in an Italian accent,” Ruck joked.
This Emmy nomination is a career first for Ruck, who is being recognized for his role as Connor Roy in the final season of HBO’s Succession. His is one of 27 nominations that the show received on Wednesday morning — the highest of any show this year. That includes 14 acting nominations.
Ruck is joined in the Supporting Actor in a Drama Series category by Succession cast members Nicholas Braun, Matthew Macfadyen and Alexander Skarsgård. Macfadyen, who took home the trophy last year, was among the first to reach out to Ruck and congratulate him.
“[Matthew] wrote and he said, ‘Well, it’s about time,'” Ruck said, adding that he’d also received well wishes from Braun as well as J. Smith-Cameron and “the whole gang.”
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Of the rest of the show’s nominations, Ruck said: “I’ve been really lucky. I’ve been doing this a long time, and I’ve worked on some really wonderful projects. This is by far I mean, it’s right there at the top of the heap. This is the best writing I’ve ever encountered. So I think it’s entirely appropriate that we get sent off in such a grand fashion, so to speak.”
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Episode 3 of the final season, “Connor’s Wedding,” which chronicles not only the eldest sibling’s wedding but also the death of patriarch Logan Roy (Brian Cox), has also been nominated in the directing, editing and writing categories.