Succession star Fisher Stevens has said goodbye to the United States.
“I moved my family to London about eight weeks ago,” the 61-year-old actor said people on Friday, October 24. “We have a 12 and 9 year old, and my wife and I decided it was time to get out of the US for a minute, see what it’s like in Europe and the UK”
Stevens, who played Waystar Royco head of communications Hugo Baker in the hit HBO series, explained what the move has been like for his family so far.
“It’s very beautiful! My wife (Alexis Bloom) and I make documentaries, so we’re working on a couple of things, and my wife’s parents live in London too, so it’s been good,” he explained.
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The outlet also asked the actor, who joined the team of the environmental documentary We are Guardians as a producer, if politics influenced his family’s decision.
“I made this film with Leonardo DiCaprio, Before the Floodand we interviewed these big corporations in the Amazon, like Cargill, who promised to farm more sustainably, and things haven’t improved,” he offered. “Now it’s 10 years later.”
He continued, “It’s more important than ever to keep shining a light on these stories,” referring to the documentary’s focus on the impact of deforestation and logging on a community in Brazil.
“Knowing that the Trump administration is heavily funded by fossil fuels … I mean, the Energy Secretary, Chris Wright is a former oil executive who refuses to (make change). It says, ‘Oh yeah, the climate is changing…’ But this administration is doing everything they can to not be responsible citizens of the world,” Stevens added.
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Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC ImagesStevens joins aa long list of celebrities that have moved out of the United States in recent years, many in response to the current Trump administration and the country’s political climate. Former daytime talk show hosts Ellen Degeneres i Rosie O’Donnell both confirmed they moved across the pond as a direct result of Trump’s 2024 re-election.
“(I’m) in the process of getting my Irish citizenship as I have Irish grandparents,” O’Donnell, 63, explained via a TikTok video in January. “And this is what’s happening, and this is where I’ve been and what I’ve been doing. And while I was never someone who thought I’d move to another country, this is what I decided would be best for me and my 12-year-old son. And here we are.”
DeGeneres, meanwhile, told the English station Richard Bacon in July that she and her wife Portia de Rossi “I arrived the day before the election and I woke up to a lot of texts from our friends with crying emojis, and I was like, ‘He’s in.’ And we’re like, ‘We’re staying here.’
DeGeneres also praised the English countryside and how different it is from life in Hollywood.
“We’re not used to seeing this kind of beauty. The towns and the cities and the architecture — everything you see is lovely and it’s just a simpler way of life,” DeGeneres added. “It’s clean. Everything is better here: the way the animals are treated, the people are polite. I love it here.”
Eva Longoria he has also moved between the United States and Spain in recent years, although he had denied that his move was the result of the country’s politics.
“The atmosphere was different,” Longoria said Marie Claire in November 2024, when asked what made her want to leave LA “And then Covid happened, and it pushed it over the edge. Whether it’s the homeless or the taxes, it’s not like I want to shit in California, it feels like that chapter of my life is over.”