Adrien Brody Explains Why Jeremy Strong Kept His Distance From Brian Cox on the Succession Set

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Adrien Brody is peeling backmost the curtain connected the acceptable of Succession

The Blonde actor, who played billionaire Waystar Royco capitalist Josh Aaronson successful play three, occurrence 4 of the HBO drama, is revealing however stars Jeremy Strong and Brian Cox interact with 1 different off-camera. During the episode, Aaronson calls Strong's Kendall Roy and Cox's Logan Roy for a acme successful bid to extremity their chilly proxy battle, and according to Brody, Strong remained successful quality adjacent aft the manager called "cut." 

"I did announcement that helium was keeping his region from Brian connected set, but I conscionable thought it was each truly interesting," Brody told The Hollywood Reporter in an interrogation published Sept. 29. "I deliberation Brian could astir apt attraction less, but it was evidently moving for Jeremy. I conscionable retrieve thinking, 'Wow, this is truthful amusive to measurement into this,' and it each went without a hitch."

Brody went connected to accidental that Strong was "wonderful country spouse and precise thoughtful," and that the two got unneurotic to speech astir his portion anterior to filming. Plus, Brody revealed that he'd beryllium down to reprise his relation arsenic the cunning investor, saying helium "just wanted determination to beryllium more."

Strong is famously a proponent of method acting, telling The New Yorker in a 2021 illustration that helium clears "away anything—anything—that is not the quality and the circumstances of the scene." The article, which went viral online, depicted his aggravated tactics, which included requesting to get sprayed with existent teardrop state for The Trial of the Chicago 7. Strong yet called the story "a beauteous profound betrayal of trust" connected Sept. 2.

Cox, connected the different hand, slammed method acting arsenic "American s--t" connected Sept. 14, deeming the method "crap." In the same New Yorker profile, Cox is quoted arsenic saying that helium worries "about what [Strong] does to himself. I interest astir the crises helium puts himself done successful bid to prepare." 

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As for Brody, the histrion said in his THR interview that helium is "supportive of immoderate attack arsenic agelong arsenic it's not truly disruptive to anyone," and that helium tries to beryllium "malleable" to different artists' techniques. But ultimately, helium falls much connected Cox's extremity of the method acting spectrum than Strong's. 

"Like Brian, it's much of a method happening astatine times, due to the fact that you've done it for truthful long," helium said. "So you person an innate understanding, and it's truly astir listening and doing the enactment up of time—being connected to that character, listening, being contiguous and responding accordingly. It's each inactive fascinating to me."

Watch Brody, Strong and Cox's techniques on Succession, which is disposable to watercourse connected HBO. 

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