Brian Cox on the success of Succession

Following his recent Golden Globe nomination, we’re joined by acting royalty Brian Cox who, after 54 years in the industry, admits he’s finally arrived at his perfect role: playing media mogul, Logan Roy in the hit HBO drama Succession.

“I remember, I had Mayor Bloomberg, I just did a show on Broadway and he came to see the show. It’s set against a background of Vietnam and he was saying, ‘I was all ready to go to Vietnam, yeah I was absolutely ready’. He said ‘Mind you, I would never have gone as a private, only as a lieutenant.’ And I thought, ‘That says it all.’ It’s that sense of entitlement of, I am who I am. And that’s kind of scary when you meet it head on.”

Brian Cox

The titan of stage and screen joins us on the sofa, ahead of the show’s third series next year.