Unleashed Voices: James Cromwell … from Succession to Plastics

A character in search of a cause embraces the desperate need to erase the tsunami of plastics that is overwhelming our seas and our lives.

In the penultimate episode of the incomparable HBO show Succession, Ewan Roy—wealthy maverick brother of the incarnation of corporate rapacity and evil, media titan Logan Roy—delivers a eulogy at Logan’s funeral.

“He has wrought some of the most terrible things,” Ewan says of his dead brother, Logan. “He was a man who has here and there drawn in the edge…