‘Succession’: How Larry David helped keep shocking plot twist secret

Fans reacted to this revelation excitedly, many wishing for a Succession and Curb Your Enthusiasm crossover.

“HBO has the chance to do the funniest thing ever,” tweeted one fan, while another added, “Larry David in a Succession episode is now the crossover event I will forever yearn for!”

“Great, now I’m imagining LD on the boat. Walking around, making fun of different things he sees on the boat. Taking issue with the whole concept of eating while on a boat, the motion sickness issue. Having a conversation with Cousin Greg,” wrote another viewer.

The whiteboard code wasn’t the only way the Succession team kept Roy’s death a secret. The show’s director Mark Mylod told Variety that they filmed “dummy scenes” with Cox as “misdirect.”

On top of that, Cox also showed up at his character’s own funeral to throw people off the scent.

“I said, ‘look, I’m coming in, because I know there’s going to be a whole lot of paparazzi there, and they’re going to be wondering what that funeral is. I am coming in,'” Cox told Deadline about the funeral shoot. “So, I said to my driver, I said, ‘Joe, let’s go, we’re going.’ So, and as soon as I got out of the car, there were paparazzi shooting me left, right and center, and therefore, they thought, ‘Logan’s at the funeral, what is he doing?'”

He added, “If I hadn’t done that, if I hadn’t come, they would’ve gone, ‘it’s Logan’s funeral.’ And I was the one who took that responsibility. They didn’t even think of it. They were so rushed, and so much, you know, this last season was very difficult to film.”

Succession, Season 4, Sundays, 9/8c, HBO and HBO Max