As if playing Kendall Roy during the award-winning run of “Succession” didn’t mess with Jeremy Strong enough, the character is still taking a toll on the self-described “identity diffusion” actor.

The part “(expletive) me up,” Strong, 45, recently told the U.K.’s Sunday Times, describing how he was overwhelmed by the tortured eldest son he embodied from 2018 to 2023 — on screen and off. Strong’s notorious acting methods also landed him in the crosshairs of his co-star and on-screen patriarch, Brian Cox, and “terrified” the show’s creator, Jesse Armstrong.

Fresh off a silent retreat to reset, the Tony Award winner said he would imagine terrible things happening to him to mentally prepare to play Kendall. He “sometimes lost touch with joy” while working on the series and only recently “rediscovered play.”

His character, who schemed to succeed his ailing father as chief executive of the fictional Waystar Royco media and entertainment conglomerate, earned Strong his first Emmy Award in 2020, as well as two additional nominations. (The series earned 19 Primetime Emmys.)

“That show was an incalculable gift. The material a banquet. So I miss that. But Kendall’s struggle was difficult to carry for seven years. And there’s just so much more I want to do,” said Strong, who has also let go of the idea of a Kendall spinoff.

“I’m aware it is one of the main chapters of my life, but I don’t miss it,” he said.

In a recent interview, Strong denied being “gun shy” about doing press since the 2021 publication of a viral New Yorker profile. In that profile, several of his “Succession” collaborators described the unconventional lengths he would go to in order to play Kendall, garnering a raft of criticism for the actor.

“I think I’m a fairly earnest person, and that’s gotten me in trouble,” Strong said, “but I’m not interested in camouflaging or disguising myself. Life is too short.”

Banks back for Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show: Tyra Banks came out of retirement recently to close out the revamped 2024 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.

After a 19-year break, the 50-year-old ascended from underneath the staged runway and did her signature strut — and her “smize” — in a VSX balconette catsuit, bustier and a metallic cape. Alas, she did not don those iconic angel wings.

The “America’s Next Top Model” star and talk show host was followed by dozens of models who literally walked in her footsteps for the finale. Banks was famously the brand’s first Black contract and catalog cover model and walked in nine of the prime-time shows before her 2005 retirement.

The annual show, which aired on broadcast TV from 1995 to 2018, took a six-year break after being canceled by executives in 2019 amid a backlash about plus-size and transgender models, exclusiveness and lack of body positivity. This year’s show took place in New York’s Brooklyn and was streamed on Amazon Prime Video.

Model Gigi Hadid was joined by her sister Bella Hadid and followed by dozens of models, including notable VS Fashion Show first-timers supermodel Kate Moss, 50; former French first lady Carla Bruni, 56; body positivity advocate Ashley Graham, 36, and trans model and influencer Alex Consani, 21.

For Banks, it was a reunion of sorts as veteran Angels Alessandra Ambrosio, Adriana Lima, Candice Swanepoel, Behati Prinsloo, Taylor Hill, Doutzen Kroes and Jasmine Tookes took flight down the catwalk too.

Music legend Cher performed her hits “Strong Enough” and “Believe” as part of the show’s all- female musical lineup, which also included K-pop star Lisa and South African singer Tyla.