Reading through one of my old issues of The Hollywood Reporter - this is from June 2020 (a piece on TV guest stars, written by Kirsten Chuba):
CHERRY JONES - Succession (HBO)
The counterpart to Brian Cox's Logan Roy, Cherry Jones appears in the HBO hit's second season as Nan Pierce, the head of her family's media dynasty. Nan hosts the Roy family at her property to discuss the possibility of selling her company to Waystar.
FIRST DAY ON SET "[For] the dinner scene in that episode, we were all at the Pierce mansion -- the eight Pierces and the eight Roys. It was continuous, everyone was ad-libbing the entire time. The script supervisor would call out someone's name, and that's when they knew that the next little bit of dialogue was being filmed. We never stopped ad-libbing during all the takes. Jeremy Strong had done this research, and he was talking to me and saying things like, 'When you come through the door to the left, that's a Sargent [painting], isn't it?' And I would say, 'It is a Sargent.'
And then he would say, 'Well, I was strolling in the garden and I saw this beautiful sculpture, is that actually a Henry Moore?' And I would say, 'It is, I'm so astonished that you know these things,' and he would say, 'Well, we spent a great deal of time in England and my mother's on the board of the Tate Modern.' And he was bull-shitting! My mouth was to the floor because he was brown-nosing me like you wouldn't believe. Holly [Hunter] was in between the two of us and we were pinching each other under the table practically because we were so delighted by Jeremy's ability to bullshit. I'm sure he'd been at his computer all afternoon coming up with all these references that he could use to butter me up."
I've never been one to watch Legal movies, but alas, I'm bound by my word, to finish every Tom Cruise movie before the stroke of midnight on December 31st so I watched The Firm on Amazon Prime Video.
At first glance, I wasn't looking forward to it, it seemed like a run-of-a-mill legal movie, or at least I thought it was going to be, and I was thoroughly surprised with the turn it took.
First, I enjoyed the chemistry between Cruise and Tripplehorn, and was surprised to see Ed Harris pop up since he wasn't advertised. Right from the start, I couldn't shake the sinister feeling the firm was giving off, which was obviously the point, and when the first deaths occured, along with Mitch (Cruise) heading to the Cayman's with Hackman, I was pulled in, realizing this wasn't going to be the standard courtroom movie.
From then on, it was just exciting to watch the conspiracy unfold. I don't want to spoil the movie too much in case anyone wants to watch it, but I give this movie 8 out of ten cruises
I understand she’s of a certain stature, but the show makes it seem like she is somewhat tiny.
