

In the scene that immediately follows, Mylod attempts to downplay the ongoing battle between tall and short people by relying on an optical illusion once favored by Peter Jackson during the filming of The Lord of the Rings and Tom Holland while posing on the red carpet. But as the duo walk next to one another in the next shot, Skarsgard is obviously hunching his shoulders, likely to hide the fact he is the Swedish god of attractive tall people. The camera is above them, which exaggerates the difference in their height, making Roman look diminutive even without Matsson sarcastically offering to lend him a hand. When he arrives, he struggles to get off a boat while Matsson waits on the dock. This sends everyone spiraling, so Roman travels to Matson’s stunning lakeside home. While everyone is enjoying the festivities, Matsson posts a GIF on Twitter that hints he might be backing out of the acquisition Roman and the others thought was in the bag. In that episode, everyone has traveled to Italy for Caroline’s (Harriet Walter) impending nuptials to a man brave enough to wear bright-colored pants in public. That difference is even more pronounced in the eighth episode, “Chiantishire,” which is directed by Mark Mylod, an executive producer who has helmed several episodes and is likely experienced in hiding height disparity between cast members. Now, the most obvious way of interpreting this scene is that Matsson is disinterested in Kendall’s over-the-top party-at one point, he’s actually playing a game on his phone, so it checks out-but the other possibility is that director Lorene Scafaria is attempting to disguise the nearly 12-inch height difference between Skarsgard and Culkin.

But it’s not as awkward as when we see him slouching in a low-slung chair as Roman attempts to court him later on.

The CEO of a tech company Waystar wants to acquire in order to become a major player in the streaming and sports betting industries, Matsson is seated next to an illuminated fake tree when we first meet him at Kendall’s 40th birthday party. But the differences in height could no longer be ignored once other Notable Tall People Adrien Brody (6’1”) and Alexander “The Tall Dude from True Blood” Skarsgard (6’4”) joined the cast in Season 3.īut Brody is just a warm-up act for the seventh episode, “Too Much Birthday,” which really puts the height of various actors into perspective, for that is the episode Skarsgard’s character, Lukas Matsson, is finally introduced. The creative minds behind the show have worked diligently to hide this gulf from viewers, and they succeeded initially by using tight shots, putting women in heels, and having Notable Tall People Matthew Macfadyen and Nicholas Braun appear opposite one another instead of shorter cast members like J. If these numbers are to be trusted-and I obviously trust them because the internet does not lie and has never been wrong-there is more than a foot difference between the shortest and tallest cast members. Let’s look at the alleged heights of the main cast members, which I found on Google: No, Succession is really a battle between tall people and short people and directors’ attempts to hide the fact there is an enormous height difference happening in any given scene.
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For the better part of three seasons, Succession has tricked us into believing it is a series about a wealthy, dysfunctional family and the complicated relationships and power struggles that occur both within it and the media conglomerate founded by its aging patriarch, Logan Roy (Brian Cox).
