“We didnt have that specific piece of information when we shot it, says co-director Shari Springer Berman.

“We knew that Sarah was pregnant,” she says.

“But we didn’t know that Shiv was going to be pregnant.

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Matthew Macfadyen’s Tom and Sarah Snook’s Shiv on ‘Succession’.David Russell/HBO

We didn’t have that specific piece of information when we shot it.”

Pulcini and Berman previously spoke with EW aboutshooting the savage showdown between Tom and Shiv.

“I was worried that we might need a whole day for it or something.

We were seeing them through the glass as we were shooting other things or doing other things.

We could see where it was going and then they kind of auditioned it for us.

Yeah, both of them are just remarkable, they’re just remarkable actors.”