Nicholas Braun Was Great as an Awkward Oddball Long Before ‘Succession’

The fourth and final season of the massive HBO hit show Succession is off and running, and the Roy children are back to jockey for their positions in the quest to replace the all-mighty patriarch Logan (Brian Cox) as the head honcho at Waystar Royco. And that means that the lovably awkward Nicholas Braun is going to return to making people feel extremely awkward as the stuttering and stammering Cousin Greg Hirsch who is perpetually struggling to find his place within the sphere of the influential and powerful media family. And it's safe to assume that there will be some more of the top-notch dialogue between him and fellow Roy outsider Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen) that will provide some comic relief and potentially some unexpected twists involving one or both of their characters. Braun's naïveté and vulnerability are a trademark of the character he has so deftly crafted over the show's run, but if you look back at some of the actor's previous roles, he's proven that there is a method to his cringe-ability dating back more than a decade. He has honed his natural awkwardness and used it to his advantage in many films including The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Red State, Prom, and Sky High.