Brian Cox stopped watching Succession when Logan Roy did
Cox still hasn't finished Succession's final season, sharing: “Because of what happened to Logan, I’ve been disinclined to watch.”
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Note: This article contains spoilers for the Succession series finale.
Count Logan Roy himself among the Succession viewers still somewhat faithfully relying upon spoiler warnings like the one included above. Brian Cox, who played the aging media magnate at the head of the HBO series’ table, still hasn’t watched the last few episodes of Succession’s final season.
Speaking to BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, Cox explains that he stopped watching the series because, for one, he’s “never liked watching” his own work. But Cox also held off in some sort of subconscious semi-solidarity with his late, great character, the towering Roy patriarch who isn’t so towering by the midpoint of Succession’s fourth season.
“Because of what happened to Logan, I’ve been disinclined to watch,” Cox puts it simply. (For the uninformed who are too curious to turn back now: Logan Roy dies off-camera in “Connor’s Wedding,” the third episode of Succession’s fourth season.)
He continues: “I knew how it was going to end, because I knew that Logan would have already set it up. So I gather, in the end, Logan’s ultimately won through — even though he’s in the grave,” He then takes the conversation in a more profound direction. “It’s a strange situation. I don’t cling on to things. When it’s over, it’s over, and I go on.”
Revealing what he has heard about Succession’s series finale, Cox manages to pretty astutely sum up the Roy family’s final act: “The rich are becoming so out of it. So separated. That’s what our show is dealing with. And, rightly, they got their just desserts at the end.” Of course, that’s just what Cox has heard, and he’s sure to add a quick caveat: “Apparently! I wasn’t in the finale.”
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Thanks for continuing to write headlines with spoilers for those of us who were looking forward to watching the show.
“Brian Cox stopped watching Succession when Logan Roy did”When did Logan Roy stop?
So he never watched it.
Right? Or maybe Logan Roy did watch the show, and it’s a Red Dwarf style mindbender. It would certainly explain a lot of his actions.
I get him not wanting to watch his own work, but i cant believe hes not curious how it ends, specifically. He worked with all those characters/people for 4 seasons.
I would imagine he knew in fair detail how the finale went and specifically the “succession” moment, especially baring in mind nearly every series regular was involved in the final scenes filming at the board meeting.That said, even if he had no special privileges on story knowledge, the idea that he had no interest in supporting the colleagues he’d worked so closely with over the last 5 years or so, says SO much about his attitude and to a degree, the entitlement that generation can exude.
I’m not sure Logan Roy ever watched the show.
Tay-tay and Matty broke up and you’re reporting on this??????????
Who?
A couple of toddlers, one presumes.
Here’s the URL of a website who gives a shit: http://www.jezebel.com
Surprised he watched at all…