Kieran Culkin Proves He's as Cheeky as His Succession Character

We hope Logan doesn’t see this! Succession star Kieran Culkin flipped the bird on Instagram while hanging out with co-star J. Smith-Cameron. Check out the pic here!

By Daniel Trainor Mar 12, 2022 12:06 AMTags
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It's easy to see why Kieran Culkin is so good at playing Roman Roy.

The Succession actor, who brilliantly portrays the bratty and immature youngest Roy sibling on the HBO drama, gave the middle finger to social media on March 11. 

Co-star J. Smith-Cameron posted a pic of the two sharing a cocktail and Kieran couldn't resist the urge to flip us off.

"Kieran's finger is gonna get stuck like that," Smith-Cameron captioned the cozy image.

Smith-Cameron plays Gerri Kellman on the Emmy-winning show. As the interim CEO of Waystar Royco, she has a lot on her plate. But as any fan of the show will tell you, it's her on-screen relationship with Roman that provides the most intrigue. The complicated—and sometimes sexual—web that the two have woven across the show's three seasons has left viewers both shocked and intrigued. It's a relationship that the two actors have not hesitated to play up for the cameras, both on set and off. 

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At the Screen Actors Guild Awards on March 27, Culkin and Smith-Cameron shared a kiss after Succession won Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama Series.

In a February interview with the Los Angeles Times, Culkin was asked if he liked the name Rorri as a couples' nickname for Roman and Gerri.

"Oh, like my brother, Rory?," he asked. "Yeah, that one is the weirdest one for me. So let's go with Rorri."

Culkin is, of course, real-life brothers with both Rory and Macaulay Culkin. And real-life married to Jazz Charton. The couple share two children Kinsey and Wilder. For her part, Smith-Cameron has been married to writer and director Kenneth Lonergan—who has directed Culkin in the past --for more than 20 years.

When asked about the palpable chemistry between Roman and Gerri, Culkin said it happened organically.

That's something that sort of happened naturally," he told the LA Times. "It just, for some reason, felt right and safe to be inappropriately flirty with general counsel. She's been a part of the family for a long time and it'd be like, here's a safe space. I'll say something kind of gross and flirty and see where it lands. And it always landed well. She always kind of rolled her eyes and was like, "Oh yeah, I'm so shocked." And it's just fun to play."

Age difference be damned, we can't get enough. 

Bring on more Rorri.

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