Breaking Baz: Brian Cox Holds Court At HBO Emmy Afterparty, Says He Knew ‘Succession’ Would Be “Landmark” TV; Nicholas Braun Reveals He’ll Star In Kenneth Lonergan Play In West End
16.01.2024 - 21:57
/ deadline.com
Brian Cox says Succession creator Jesse Armstrong was a “gentleman” to salute him during his acceptance speech at Sunday night’s Emmy Awards.
The celebrated HBO drama won the top drama prize, and Armstrong praised the show’s cast, creatives and crew then lauded Cox, “who the show was revolved around whether he was in it or not.”
Later at the HBO Max Emmy afterparty at San Vicente Bungalows, Cox tells me he was “touched” by Armstrong singling him out. “Jesse’s a gentleman in an industry where there aren’t many of those,” he says.
Cox adds that the entire team deserved the praise. ”All of them. The drama series win belongs to each and every one of them.”
The acclaimed actor says he knew Succession would become a “cultural landmark” from the time he read Armstrong’s first script. “I was in no doubt that it would become a benchmark. The writing, the characters…”
Cox has worked tirelessly since his run as Logan Roy ended.
Late last year he portrayed composer Johann Sebastian Bach in Oliver Cotton’s play The Score at the Theatre Royal Bath, directed by Trevor Nunn.
Cox reveals that the production will transfer into the West End this year.
First, however, “as soon as I learn my lines,” he’ll lead a revival of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night into Wyndham’s Theatre from March 19 with Patricia Clarkson, Anthony Boyle and Daryl McCormack.
Then he’ll direct Alan Cumming, Jodie Turner-Smith and Bill Paterson in the Scottish film Glenrothan. “I’m looking at others to cast,” he says. “There’ll be younger versions of Alan and of me. And I’ve my eye on someone to play Jodie’s daughter.”
He will not retire, he tells me defiantly. The very idea of it “bores” him.
Hard work is in his bones. “It’s what I believe in,” he