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From a ludicrously capacious bag to fake sausages: ‘Succession’ props draw luxe prices
NEW YORK, Jan 17: Someday soon, someone will be walking down the street proudly carrying a ludicrously capacious bag, bought for a ludicrously capacious price. The index card containing Roman Roy’s eulogy notes for his father’s funeral from the HBO series “Succession.”
The voluminous Burberry tote is one of the most famous props used on “Succession,” the famed HBO saga of the Roy family dynasty, and it sold at auction Saturday for $18,750.
But that bag, which became notorious when Matthew Macfadyen’s Tom Wambsgans savagely ridiculed it, wasn’t even the priciest item sold from the set of the addictive drama expected to also clean up at Monday’s Emmy Awards, on the heels of its Golden Globes wins. No, that was a set of pink index cards containing Roman Roy’s eulogy notes for his father’s funeral – a speech he never gave.
Beginning, “My father Logan Roy was a great man,” the four cards represent the tragic failure of Roman (Kieran Culkin) to meet the moment. They have a new life now with someone who paid $25,000 and hopefully will frame them nicely. (AP)