Award-winning screenwriter tells Desert Island Discs that success has not silenced self-doubt
The award-winning screenwriter Jesse Armstrong has said a writers’ room can feel like “walking on the moon” when it is working well, but has admitted to experiencing impostor syndrome during his career.
Armstrong was behind the hit HBO drama Succession, starring Brian Cox as the global media tycoon and family patriarch Logan Roy, who sets off a power struggle among his four children.
He is also an Oscar nominee for co-writing The Thick of It spin-off film In The Loop with Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche, and has won TV Baftas for his work on Peep Show.
Speaking on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs to Lauren Laverne, Armstrong, 55, said: “When a writers’ room is working well, it’s like you’re walking on the moon.
