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Kieran Culkin says. It’s late February, and he’s nestled in a banquette at a cocktail bar in Brooklyn. He’s referring, of course, to his role on HBO’s sleeper-hit-turned-awards-juggernaut black dramedy about the excessively rich and comically power-thirsty Roy family, owners of a fictional global media behemoth. For six years, Culkin has played Roman, the second youngest of the four Roy children—impish and obscene and endlessly watchable, and perhaps, the sibling most likely to inherit the keys to creator Jesse Armstrong recently revealed that its fourth season, airing now, will also be its last.
