Brian Cox Slams Jeremy Strong’s Method Acting as ‘F—ing Annoying’: ‘Don’t Get Me Going On It’

Succession star Jeremy Strong has revealed his 10 favourite books.The actor, who plays Kendall Roy in the HBO satirical drama, recently met with GQ to take part in their 10 Things I Can’t Live Without series.Far exceeding the 10-item limit, Strong brought along a wide selection of trinkets and memorabilia from his career, including props from Succession, Molly’s Game, The Big Short and a number of plays.Strong then unveiled a pile of 10 books, saying: “I mean this is like a five-house conversation right here. These are all books that have been really important to me.”The collection included My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard, which Strong described as “the most honest expression of life that I’ve ever read anywhere.” Harold Pinter’s play The Caretaker and Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment also featured.You can find the full list below:My Struggle (Karl Ove Knausgaard)The Caretaker (Harold Pinter)Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)The Man Who Owns The News (Michael Wolff)Four Quartets (T. S. Eliot)Swan’s Way: In Search of Lost Time – Volume 1 (Marcel Proust)Letters to a Young Poet (Rainer Maria Rilke)Alma Mahler-Werfel Diaries, 1898-1902 (Alma Mahler-Werfel)Wolf Hall (Hilary Mantel)Angle of Repose (Wallace Stegner)One of the less surprising additions to his collection was The Man Who Own The News,  Michael Wolff’s biography of Rupert Murdoch, who is commonly believed to be the real-life inspiration for the Succession character Logan Roy (played by Brian Cox).Last month, Cox described Strong’s method acting as “fucking annoying”, saying that filming doesn’t have to be a “big fucking religious experience”.Cox noted that his co-star is gifted, but that that he won’t “lose” his talent if he stops method

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Nominations for the 2023 CMT Music Awards are led by country’s woman of the moment, Lainey Wilson, with four, followed by three apiece for Cody Johnson, newcomer Jelly Roll and the show’s recurring co-host, Kane Brown. For the second year in a row, the three-hour telecast will be getting its premiere network airing on CMT’s big sister network, CBS — along with a livestream on Paramount+ — and for the first time, it will be based out of Austin. The show goes out live from the Moody Center April 2 at 8 p.m. ET on the broadcast network and airs tape-delayed in the same time slot on the west coast. Several days after the broadcast and streaming premiere, the show will appear on its titular network, CMT, as an “extended cut” with 30 minutes of additional material, bringing the running time there to three and a half hours. That expanded edition bows on CMT April 6 at 8 ET/PT.

CMT Music Awards will have plenty of familiar faces — and a whole lot of new ones. Lainey Wilson leads the charge with four noms, including Performance of the Year and Female Video of the Year. Tied with three nominees apiece are first-time nominee Jelly Roll, Cody Johnson, and CMT Music Awards co-host Kane Brown.Across all categories, CMT is recognizing 21 first-time nominees.Meanwhile, the first round of nominations for the highly coveted Video of the Year award has 16 acts, including another nod for Carrie Underwood, who reigns as the most awarded artist in CMT history with a total of 25 wins.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter HBO Max’s “The Batman” spinoff series “The Penguin” has cast Clancy Brown in a recurring role, Variety has learned. Brown joins a cast that includes series lead Colin Farrell, who will reprise the role of Oswald “The Penguin” Cobblepot from “The Batman, as well as Cristin Milioti, Rhenzy Feliz, Michael Kelly, Shohreh Aghdashloo, and Deirdre O’Connell. Brown will appear as Salvatore Maroni, a notorious Gotham City crime boss. The character was referenced repeatedly in “The Batman,” as his arrest by corrupt Gotham officials and the collapse of his criminal empire allowed for Carmine Falcone’s organization to rise. Maroni has previously been portrayed onscreen by actors like David Zayas in “Gotham” at Fox and by Eric Roberts in “The Dark Knight.”

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Jeremy Strong has been widely praised for her performance as Kendall Roy in “Succession”, a role that’s earned him an Emmy, a Golden Globe, a Critics’ Choice Award and a SAG Award.

Brian Cox is not holding back about his Succession co-star Jeremy Strong’s Method acting once again.

Much has been made about Jeremy Strong and his reliance on “method acting” in projects. For those unaware, Strong will fully inhabit his character and never break while on set, even when the cameras aren’t rolling.

Succession‘s Brian Cox has described his co-star Jeremy Strong’s method acting as “fucking annoying”.Speaking to Town and County, the actor said there’s no need to stay in character between takes, and that filming doesn’t have to be a “big fucking religious experience”.Cox, who plays family patriarch Logan Roy in the HBO comedy-drama, added that is on-screen son Strong is “gifted”, but that he won’t “lose” his talent if he stops method acting.“It’s just there and is accessible, it’s not a big fucking religious experience,” said Cox.When asked what it was like being around someone who is always in character, he added: “Oh, it’s fucking annoying, don’t get me going on it.”Cox went on to praise his co-star, but argued that he should “celebrate” his talent rather constantly staying in character as Kendall Roy.He said: “He’s fucking gifted. When you’ve got the gift, celebrate the gift.

Brian Cox is not backing down on his thoughts over his Succession co-star’s, Jeremy Strong, acting style.

HBO series, is “f–king annoying.” “He’s a very good actor. And the rest of the ensemble is all okay with this. But knowing a character and what the character does is only part of the skill set,” Cox, 76, explains in an interview with Town & Country published Tuesday.“It’s f–king annoying,” Cox added of Strong always being in character.

“Succession’s” deeply tragic Kendall Roy is not news — and it’s something co-star Brian Cox, who plays the gruff and withholding patriarch Logan Roy, finds “f—ing annoying.”The Emmy-winning Scottish actor has previously expressed his indifference to Strong’s immersive technique, having called the method a uniquely “American disease” in the much-discussed 2021 New Yorker profile of the star. Now, in a cover story with Town & Country, the veteran actor — who is classically trained — doubled down on his sentiments.“He’s a very good actor,” Cox told the magazine. “And the rest of the ensemble is all OK with this.

To each their own. Jeremy Strong raised eyebrows with his commitment to method acting — and not all of his Succession costars have been onboard with the process.

's return with season 4, the cast is opening up about what's in store for the Roy family in the upcoming episodes and what it's like to work on the Emmy-winning HBO drama, particularly when it comes to Jeremy Strong's notorious style of method acting on set. While playing Kendall Roy, the 44-year-old actor tends to isolate himself from the rest of the cast. «It’d be one thing if I was working on or something,» Strong says in defense of himself while speaking to .

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Zack Sharf Jeremy Strong said in a new interview with GQ magazine that his “Succession” co-star Brian Cox has earned the right to say whatever he wants about Strong in the press. Cox has publicly expressed worry over Strong’s Method acting, once telling The New Yorker, “I’ve worked with intense actors before. It’s a particularly American disease, I think, this inability to separate yourself off while you’re doing the job.” “The result that Jeremy gets is always pretty tremendous,” Cox added. “I just worry about what he does to himself. I worry about the crises he puts himself through in order to prepare.” Cox would later about Strong on “Late Night With Seth Meyers” as well, saying, “He does get obsessed with the work. And I worry about what it does to him, because if you can’t separate yourself — because you’re dealing with all of this material every day. You can’t live in it. Eventually, you get worn out.”

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