**Warning: spoilers for the final episode of 'Succession'!**

By now, most 'Succession' fans have surely watched the final episode of the TV series which has been roundly hailed as one of the best of all time. (And if you haven't, why not? It's been like, a week.)

As you'll know, the episode ended with a despondent Kendall Roy looking both physically and emotionally lost, as he wandered around an empty Battery Park in New York, Logan's trusted bodyguard Colin on his heels.

The final shot of the series sees a bereft Kendall looking out across the river, but actor Jeremy Strong - who is known for his method acting - revealed in a Vanity Fair interview that he intended on taking it one step further and jumping into the water, before the actor playing Colin stopped him.

"I tried to go into the water after we cut - I got up from that bench and went as fast as I could over the barrier and onto the pilings, and the actor playing Colin raced over," he said. "I didn’t know I was gonna do that, and he didn’t know, but he raced over and stopped me. I don’t know whether in that moment I felt that Kendall just wanted to die - I think he did - or if he wanted to be saved by essentially a proxy of his father."

Now, series creator Jesse Armstrong has confirmed Strong's story, and said that he was "terrified" by his unplanned and unscripted moment because there were no safety measures in place.

"I was terrified. I was terrified that he might fall in and be injured," he told NPR. "He didn’t look like he was going to jump in. But once he climbed over that barrier, when you film, there are generally a lot of health and safety assessments made, and that was not our plan that day."

He added: "If we’d even been thinking of that happening, we would have had boats and frogmen and all kinds of safety measures, which we didn’t have. So my first thought was for his physical safety as a human being, not anything about the character. That’s what I felt on the day. Good Lord, above."

Armstrong also gave his take on the final scene for Shiv and Tom, the new Waystar Royco CEO, as they 'hold' hands in the car.

"For me it was a moment of equality," he said. "Chilly, rather terrifying equality, but equality, which has never been the case in that relationship before. Tom has always been subservient. Now he has this status, but his status is contingent. That’s kind of what the whole episode has been about. Shiv’s status is as all the kids are — secure. It’s secure in a financial sense. She has billions of dollars. She has wealth that could never diminish, whatever happened to the world. And she also has a name, which will sort of haunt her and make it interesting, to a certain degree, for the rest of her life, and that can’t be taken away from her. Whereas Tom’s position could be taken away in the click of fingers."

He added: "So for me, there’s a very terrifying equality in that, a remarkable dry hand on hand. It’s not really even human contact. It’s a sort of two pieces of porcelain or something. So that’s what it is for me. That isn’t what it would be for everyone. And certainly you could see the situation being a clever stratagem by which Shiv remains in play. Maybe that thought will occur to her tomorrow or the day after. But for me, the show’s ended at this point and the story is over and that’s where I think they end up."