Succession stars talk about filming in Italy during the pandemic

Vulture

“At the beginning of the season, it was mask, shield,” says Kieran Culkin during Vulture's visit on-location in Sicily. “We had these pods” — think individual tents for actors to use between takes — “that we didn’t use.” Vulture's Hunter Harris adds: "HBO still requires masks on set, both outdoors and indoors, but the risk of working together doesn’t feel as life or death, as uncharted, as it once did. Maybe it helps that it’s summer and there’s a pool and plates of bucatini everywhere." As for Succession avoiding the pandemic in Season 3, Sarah Snook says: “These are really wealthy people. And unfortunately, none of the world’s really wealthy people were going to be affected by the pandemic.”