Brian Cox says his character Logan Roy was written out of Succession ‘too early’
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rian Cox says he thinks his foul-mouthed character of Logan Roy was written out “too early” of the hit HBO present Succession.
The Scottish actor, 76, stated though the shock twist had been completed “in a pretty brilliant way” he had felt “a little bit rejected” by the choice.
The Roy household patriarch and world media tycoon was killed off in episode three of the most recent sequence, which additionally stars Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook and Kieran Culkin.
Speaking on BBC Two’s Amol Rajan Interviews forward of Succession’s sequence 4 finale, Cox stated it will maybe have been extra acceptable for the character to die within the fifth or sixth episode.
“I was fine with it ultimately, but I did feel a little bit rejected,” he stated.
“You know, I felt a little bit, oh, all the work I’ve done and finally I’m going to, you know, end up as an ear on a carpet of a plane.”
Details of Logan’s dying have been a well-kept secret, which Cox stated he performed an element in by showing on set to “film” scenes he was not required to be in.
I used to be positive with it finally, however I did really feel a little bit bit rejected. You know, I felt a little bit bit, oh, all of the work I’ve completed and eventually I’m going to, you realize, find yourself as an ear on a carpet of a aircraft
Cox stated he had gone “on (his) own volition” in order that members of the paparazzi attending the shoot wouldn’t develop into suspicious.
In the BBC interview, he additionally instructed Rajan that he thinks Logan may nonetheless be alive.
“I still believe this, maybe Logan isn’t dead. This could be part of an elaborate ruse to find out,” he stated.
“If you think about it, from Logan’s point of view, he has to find out how are his children going to behave when he dies, what will then happen?
“The only way to do that is to fake his death and actually, at some distant point, he’s observing the chaos that is following.”
But he added that the character wouldn’t “come back from the dead”, saying: “I’m just saying that could have been a supposition.”
During the interview, Cox additionally mirrored on his childhood, his profession, his ideas on Scottish independence and why he helps the author’s strike in Hollywood.
The full interview, Brian Cox: Amol Rajan Interviews, is on BBC Two on Thursday May 25 at 7pm and BBC iPlayer.