Jeremy Strong played eldest boy/aspiring rapper Kendall Roy on Succession for seven years, but in a new interview with the Sunday Times, he says he doesn’t miss the role that has come to define him, saying, “It fucked me up.”

Strong told the paper that while he inhabited the intense character, “I sometimes lost touch with joy.”

That’s not to say that Strong takes the experience for granted, he calls it, “an incalculable gift.

“The material a banquet. So I miss that,” he said. “But Kendall’s struggle was difficult to carry for seven years. And there’s just so much more I want to do.”

Strong also says there’s no hope of reviving the character for a spin-off or revival of any kind.

“It’s not something I have any wish to do any longer. I’m aware it is one of the main chapters of my life, but I don’t miss it,” he said.

Strong has been open about his acting process, including his dislike of the word “Action!” and his habit of remaining in character as Kendall even when the cameras weren’t rolling (a process that his co-star Brian Cox referred to as “fucking annoying”). But now that he’s had some distance from the fragile, addictive personality that is Kendall, he says, “I’ve rediscovered play.”

Strong is now starring as lawyer Roy Cohn in the upcoming film The Apprentice about Donald Trump’s early years as a businessman in New York. (Sebastian Stan plays Trump.)

Strong describes Cohn as “Demonic Peter Pan,” saying that the man’s “malign legacy is one of denial and that is what he passed on to Trump: this detestation of the world and a need to punish and act out with hatred.” At least he got Kendall out of his system before assuming such a lighthearted role.