Brian Cox

The Succession star tears into the Oscars, Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino

 The first time I meet Brian Cox it’s in Los Angeles, shortly after he’s won best actor in a television drama series at the Golden Globes for the role of Logan Roy, the menacing patriarch in Succession. The place is humming with awards-season fever, and Cox can’t take two steps without being mobbed by selfie hunters and fans asking him to growl his character’s catchphrase, “Ah, f*** arrfff.” (He shrugs: “You’re telling people what you want to tell them and they think it’s fun.”)

The second time it’s at the Greenberry cafe in Primrose Hill in London, and here, in the dimmed light, he has a good bitch about the Oscars. Do you know what pisses him off, he asks. Gary Oldman winning best…Read the full article on The Sunday Times