She’s Logan Roy’s right hand. She’s Roman’s ‘mommy girlfriend.’ And now, she’s an Emmys nominee. Here, Succession star j_smithcameron takes us behind the scenes of Gerri’s boardroom power plays.
, in Italy, J. Smith-Cameron—who plays Gerri Kellman, Waystar Royco’s general counsel—walked down romantic cobblestone streets in Tuscany, beneath that perfect turquoise sky… and got heatstroke.
Gerri is the wry, reasonable right hand of CEO Logan Roy . Everybody around Logan wants the top job, but Gerri is not so naked with her ambition. If she has an endgame, she keeps it to herself. So, what does Gerri really want? Smith-Cameron gives a very in-character answer: thorough but measured, and only strategically revealing.“I think about this all the time,” she says.
“That is the very key line for Gerri,” Smith-Cameron says. “That explains her whole character in a nutshell.” Smith-Cameron’s Gerri was still responsible for explaining the legal ramifications of Waystar’s maneuverings in language HBO subscribers could understand. But over time, and through Smith-Cameron’s ingenuity and improvisations, the character developed. “She asks really good and searching questions about the material… I think of her more as being a considered question-asker: in-person, after read-throughs, on the phone, in email,” Armstrong says.
“Nowadays when I talk to Jesse about something,” she says. “He goes, ‘Well, remember, by now you're the world's authority on Gerri Kellman.’”cameras keep rolling. “[They like] watching the characters behave with each other in their habitat,” Smith-Cameron says. “Because they seem to get ideas… [and] really write for our rhythms.”
Pretty slick, but it’s intriguing that Gerri knows to take herself out of one bad department but chooses not to extricate herself from Waystar Royco entirely. It’s not like Gerri doesn’t know that there’s rot at the center of this operation, a toxicity that oozes into everything. While the Roy kids are held in place by that family tie, Gerri could bail at any time. There’s nothing stopping her, really, from taking a job elsewhere.
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