Kieran Culkin Jokes Pedro Pascal Can 'Suck It' as He Wins Best Actor at Golden Globes for “Succession”
Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin, Jeremy Strong, Gary Oldman, Pedro Pascal and Dominic West competed for the honor at the 2024 Golden Globes
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A new Golden Globes drama king has been crowned!
Succession stars Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin and Jeremy Strong faced off against Gary Oldman for Slow Horses, Pedro Pascal for The Last of Us and Dominic West for The Crown in the best actor in a drama series category at the 2024 Golden Globes. Culkin, 41, ultimately won.
In his acceptance speech, Culkin said, "I was nominated for a Golden Globe 20 years ago, and when that moment passed I sort of remember thinking I’m never going to be back in this room again. Which, was fine. Whatever. But thanks to Succession, I’ve been in here a couple of times, which is nice. But I sort of accepted I’m never going to be on stage, so this is a nice moment, thank you."
He then quipped, "Suck it, Pedro. Mine!" The camera cut to Pascal in the audience, who laughed.
"Really quickly, I’d just like to thank everybody in Succession. Jesse, our writers, the amazing cast. Everybody that showed up and believed in this thing and that it was very cool," the star continued. "This isn’t mine, this is one for the team."
Culkin also thanked "three amazing women in my life" and said, "My manager Emily Gerson Saines, for whom I wouldn’t have a career. My wife Jaz for putting up with this and all the s— that comes with it. And my wonderful mom. Mom, thank you for doing everything you’ve done for us. You’re an amazing woman."
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Pedro Pascal at the Golden Globes.Related: Kieran Culkin Honors Kids in Sweet Way at Golden Globes 2024 — Then Tells Them to 'Go to Sleep'
For Culkin, who was celebrating his fifth Golden Globe nomination, Succession ended with Roman drinking a martini alone at a bar with his face beaten up thanks to an aggressive hug from his brother Kendall (Strong).
“None of the siblings are in a particularly good place at the end,” Culkin told Variety. “...A lot of people just go, ‘Well, he’s got tons of money — he’ll be fine!’ Which just isn’t really the case for these people. I don’t think it’s as simple as, ‘Well, I guess I’ve got my riches and my martini, I’m fine.’ I don’t think he’s OK. No.”
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Brian Cox with Hiam Abbass on 'Succession'Related: ‘Succession’ Series Finale: How It Ended and Who Came Out on Top
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Also in the category was Succession costar Cox. This year marked Cox's fourth nomination; he won in this same category in 2021.
The fourth and final season of Succession saw Cox’s character die from heart failure while traveling on a private jet to broker a business deal in Sweden.
Given the show’s title, Cox, 77, saw the move coming.
“It’s about succession,” Cox told Vulture. “You need a corpse. If it was a different kind of show, it could have gone into a more mysterious frame — Is Logan dead? That kind of stuff. But I think [Succession creator] Jesse [Armstrong] realized it had to be the way it had to be, and he made the decision to do that.”
Outside of the best actor category, Succession's Sarah Snook received a nomination for the leading actress award for portraying the Roy family's ruthless heiress Siobhan (a.k.a. "Shiv") and J. Smith-Cameron, Matthew Macfadyen, Alan Ruck and Alexander Skarsg?rd all earned nods for their supporting turns. Additionally, the series picked up a nom for best drama series.
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Oldman, 65, has been nominated for Golden Globes three times and won in 2018 for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in the movie Darkest Hour.
On Apple TV+'s Slow Horses, the actor plays an MI-5 spymaster named Jackson Lamb who oversees a group of disgraced agents. The show, based on books by Mick Herron, concluded its third season last month — and has already been renewed for a fourth and fifth season.
"The real joy for me is not only that Lamb is a delicious character to play, we get all the same people back. The crew comes back, makeup, hair, costume," Oldman told Newsweek. "Above and beyond the fact that the world is interesting and the material is really good, I feel very privileged and very lucky to be working with this group of people."
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Based on the video game of the same name, The Last of Us takes place in post-apocalyptic America and sees Pascal's Joel start to care for a 14-year-old girl (Bella Ramsey) who may be the only shot at saving civilization.
“I couldn’t have asked for a more anchoring, generous, thoughtful teenager. And I don’t mean to say that in a patronizing way,” Pascal told Variety of Ramsey, 20. “I relied on Bella for so much of the experience. We were both scared and shy about that, but Bella just inspired me to be mature about it.”
Ramsey received a nomination in the best actress in a drama category, and The Last of Us picked up a nod for best television drama.
The second season of The Last of Us will premiere on HBO in 2025, with production slated to start next month.
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Jeremy Strong (right) with Kieran Culkin and Sarah Snook on 'Succession'This is Strong's second Golden Globe nomination; he won in the same category in 2022.
The actor, 45, referred to Kendall’s ending in the fourth and finale season of Succession as “tragic.”
“Whether that tragedy was getting what he wants or not what he wants… they’re both tragic,” Strong told The Hollywood Reporter.
“To get what he wants, he has mortgaged off every last ounce of what was good in him. He’s mortgaged off his integrity, his moral center. He’s lost his children, he’s lost love, his siblings, his father. He made a devil’s bargain to elect [Jeryd Mencken] as president. He has to get this thing, otherwise none of it made any sense, and his life has been in vain, and his life is just an abortive misfire. Which is what happens in the end.”
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Dominic West as Prince Charles and Elizabeth Debicki as Princess Diana on 'The Crown'This marked West's third Golden Globe nomination and his first for The Crown.
West, 54, joined the hit Netflix series in season 5 and continued playing then-Prince Charles in The Crown’s sixth and final season. The father of four told PEOPLE last month that his involvement with the show changed his view of the royal family.
“I suppose one’s perception is so dictated by what you read in the media and what you see in their public persona that working on trying to find out what’s going on privately and what’s going on their minds and what’s going on in their private conversations,” West said.
“[The Crown creator] Peter [Morgan] imagines them so brilliantly and base grounds them very firmly in whatever facts we have, that I suppose I came to emphasize much more, certainly, with Charles and feel a sympathy for him.”
The Crown previously picked up best drama wins in 2017 and 2021, as well as statuettes for Olivia Colman (season 3 and 4's Queen Elizabeth), Josh O'Connor (playing a younger Prince Charles), Emma Corin (season 4's Diana) and Gillian Anderson (who channeled former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher).
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