Character
Roman Roy
Roman Roy in Succession (2018), played by Kieran Culkin.
The youngest Roy sibling, Roman is the family clown: a Waystar executive who fires off obscene jokes in board meetings and treats his father's empire like an adult playground he's still trying to get invited into. Underneath the wisecracks is a kid desperate for his dad's approval and terrified of being taken seriously.
Culkin plays him as pure nervous energy, a man who's weaponized deflection so thoroughly he can barely say a sincere sentence without flinching. The filthy one-liners land because they're clearly armor, and the show keeps letting you glimpse the wound underneath before the joke slams back down.
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Succession2018