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N NICHOLAS BRAUN THINKS HE WOULD MAKE AN EXCELLENT
reality TV contestant. During the downtime since he finished shooting the highly anticipated third season of Succession — the hit HBO series about the dysfunctional, uber-wealthy Roy family, in which he plays the lovable, bumbling Cousin Greg — the 33-year-old actor’s been bingeing Bachelor in Paradise and Alone, the latter of which follows 10 contestants trying to survive alone in the barren wilderness with only minimal supplies.
Braun, however, has another long-running reality franchise in mind — and he knows exactly who he’d bring along to be his partner. “I really want to do The Amazing Race with my friend Chris Mintz-Plasse,” he says over Zoom from his apartment in New York City. “We both love escape rooms — that’s the main reason I think we could do it. I think he would probably solve riddles and puzzles a bit quicker than me. I have a bigger gait so maybe I’d carry him on my back if he was going too slow. I think we’d win.”
Although the prospect of watching the 6'7" Braun and the Superbad star navigate crowded airports and traffic jams sounds like a recipe for TV ratings gold, it’s immediately clear that Braun has an earnestness not entirely dissimilar to the lanky, naive Greg. When we first meet Gregory Hirsch, the great-nephew of Logan Roy (fearsome patriarch of media conglomerate Waystar Royco, played by
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