'When Shiv lets her hair down, she absolutely loses her mind.'
‘One of the interesting things about Shiv is that she thinks of herself as a good person yet does almost nothing that a good person would do.’ Chances are, if you’ve watched the first two seasons of Succession, you’ve spent hours dissecting the plots, the dialogue and the characters, not least Siobhan ‘Shiv’ Roy, one of the most compelling female characters on TV right now.
And then there’s the planet-sized gap between the good person Shiv thinks she is, and how she actually behaves. ‘She’s a very arrogant hypocrite. Some of the other characters in the show are quite clown-like in their hypocrisy – she takes herself quite seriously. It’s really interesting her being the only daughter as well and what that does to her psychology and her sense of specialness and contempt that she has for her brothers.
But for Piper and Prebble, I Hate Suzie was very much the programme they wanted to make. ‘We’re at an age where we’ve realised the mistakes we’ve made in the past and we’re trying not to make them again.’