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On signifier astatine the Toronto International Film Festival, Succession's Brian Cox—who plays Logan Roy successful the HBO drama—disparaged method acting, which his co-star Jeremy Strong famously uses.
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Brian Cox doesn't instrumentality his enactment location with him.
Continuing his recent headline-grabbing comments about Succession, the veteran actor—who plays patriarch Logan Roy successful the HBO household drama—slammed method acting on-stage astatine the Toronto International Film Festival Sept. 14. During a post-screening Q&A for his caller film Prisoner's Daughter, helium deemed the method "crap."
"I don't clasp a batch of the American s--t," helium said, as quoted by The Hollywood Reporter. "Having to person a spiritual acquisition each clip you play a part—it's crap."
For Cox, helium simply doesn't privation to bring his enactment location with him aft filming each day. "I don't bent onto the characters I play," helium continued. "I fto them spell done me. The happening is to beryllium acceptable to accept, arsenic an actor. You basal there, you're acceptable to judge immoderate is thrown astatine you."
After comparing Roy with his Prisoner's Daughter character Max, Roy noted that helium conscionable lets his characters "come through" him, adding, "you don't get successful the f--king way."
Of course, Cox's co-star Jeremy Strong, who plays his on-screen lad Kendall, is famously a proponent of the technique. A viral 2021 New Yorker profile detailed Strong's aggravated tactics, including requesting to get sprayed with existent teardrop state for The Trial of the Chicago 7. Though Strong did not place arsenic a method histrion to the publication, helium told them that he clears "away anything—anything—that is not the quality and the circumstances of the scene."
The illustration further went connected to overgarment Strong as someone who has alienated himself connected acceptable with his unorthodox preparations, with Cox himself saying that helium worries "about what helium does to himself. I interest astir the crises helium puts himself done successful bid to prepare." Strong yet called the nonfiction "a beauteous profound betrayal of trust" connected Sept. 2.
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Cox has been connected a roll with his Succession comments successful caller weeks, telling The Times Sept. 12 that helium doesn't privation the drama to "to overstay its welcome, similar Billions," and remarking to Sky News on Aug. 25 that playing Roy has had the "terrible effect" of causing him to curse frequently.
"Now I curse each the time," helium said. "It's catching, it's infectious."
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