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thank you to the to learned professors ordinarily says, i said it's going to be called pipes 26 with leaders of the so called big nations all passing each other on the back and the small and nice and leaders leaving bitterly disappointed. and finally hot mike says will just be a lot of hot air and lip service. now, brian cox began his act and don d repertory theater. after 60 years of award winning success on stage, i've been film. he won a golden globe, play for fade, taciturn meter magnet logan roy. this week, cassim, the publication of his autobiography between the rabbits in the alex catch up with brian called delighted to be joined by logan roy or brian cox. brian, welcome back to the alex simon. show nice to see a ryan they've been, they've been many cases of actors who work for decatur to become of might successes, be an example of somebody who's be the success of the best part of half,

essentially. but now you become all of a sudden, a super star, a totally recognizable international figure that i was that impacting on your life as a passion, as well as an actor. well there's, there's, you know, it's, it's great in many ways, but it so, so the sad thing is i've no lost my anonymity, so people know who i am and they're, they're constantly asking me to tell them to do a certain thing f off. basically i can list because to really courageous video telling us to f off. and chris is the easiest thing in the world is the f off, you know, so it's, it's, it's kind of odd, it's very odd situation. but of course, there are other things which are nice, you know, there's a lot, the good outweighs the bad. but i mean, the people think of us logan roy of another expecting you to be tough for places pass a tunnel and offensive. some people are intimidated by me, which isn't

a bad thing because they think i'm logan roy and there's like i was written something this morning and let's bump back stiffness. supercilious is magdalana mine and i thought they were talking about me and i saw something like that. and i realized that when talking about me, they were talking about logan lee, evil twin. so one last question on, that's amazing. success in succession well into the the some series i'm watching and it appears that logan's got we've got a vulnerability as a, has a, has dysfunctional family seem to be combining against them. i'm. i'm a great defender of logan. i mean, you have to, you must never judge your character one way or the other. you know, that's rule number one when you. but i, i look at, look at, and i think, you know, he's, course, james got in very course he's, he's, you know, he's free with these language. but all he's trying to do is find a successful firm and maybe

a horrible firm. but that's what he's trying to do and he's hoping it's going to be kids. but his kids are being persistently disappointing. so it's very hard for him in many ways. so i actually have a lot of sympathy from because, you know, yes, she's ruthless. yeah, she's a tough business. fine. yes. he talks about being a killer and all of that stuff, but that's all part of what is really and he says that very early on. this is a game. it's an elaborate game. and of course, when you play any game, you have to play it seriously, but it is a game, but the kids, they don't see it as a game, they see as a matter of life and death. and so it's very hard for him to kind of extricate from that belief system. and therefore another just behaving truly appallingly. i think, yes, she's under a lot of pressure from a stroke. he's trying to get his family is trying to get a phone together and, and, and the children. i'm not helping i talk and with them i'm vision and also this is

the other thing with. ready satirical element of the piece, there's a sense of entitlement, you know, in this entitlement because it leaves a lot to be, you know, considering, i mean, that's not something that's happening all the world over now. you know, we've got the same influences in the, in the media business. so everybody thinks are entitled you go, no, you're not. and then out of that we have let's walk and cancel culture. and it's become really kind of like liberal fascism that's happening at the moment. and the scottish as logan roy. i mean, does he make secret visits back to that and be in the holidays to look is that if it's buffering i will hold done the trip. i mean, what, you have to understand knowledge that started the series. i was born in quebec canada and i played it with kind of american kit in action. and i played most of

this is about and then they decided an episode 9 after i'd go episode 9. peter friedman who was who had placed friday, who i keep fighting and behind shed he's just on a, an a d i session or a d. i was when you do, when you co sink was on the screen, you know, but they want to put and so they changed my bus. but she said, brian, that changed your booklets. and i should really said, yes, yes, you're not born in quebec anymore. i said to where my born and he said, oh, i don't know, i kind of and then he took his device and he said, oh you a, i guess some work i'm done the scotland and i went but that's where i'm from. and he said, oh yeah, well apparently you went from there, done these look done these continent. and i said, i went up to jesse, i'm so i said, what's going on? i mean i, for 9 episodes, i've been playing this character. and now you told me i'm from my home town. he

said, oh yeah, we thought to be a little surprised. i said it's a hell of a bloody surprise. but i know it says i've been playing at somebody's or it's ok, it's ok. you, you left on the when you were very young, you came to canada, you went back, but you came to comes in a very young age. so that was it. that was like giving away too much of the upcoming cities. a look at a good time for these enemies as a life of nil dog yet, i'm seeing them on yourself to watch and see a blank. alyssa, let's explore a bit about the your remarkable 60 year center and the acting business strikes me that bit. i will isn't gonna work in class edge and actors when one thinks of people of the sixties and seventies have mouths like michael kane, sean connery, peter o'toole, all from real walk in class or humble backgrounds like yourself. i as they are

acting certainly in the u. k becoming a bet gentrified. no, well, it has been moving that way in many ways. i don't, you know, it's very hard to, you know, i'd say easy to accuse, you know, the public school system because they have a lot of money. so they have fantastic. it's resources, and apparently the, it is both and heroin eaten are phenomenal. and of course kids get into that at the red main benefit come batch, dominant west. they're all public school boys and that's fine. i've got nothing against that. i like, well you have to understand, you know, we've been younger than me, but what you have to understand is the sixty's was the time of tremendous social mobility. there was never anything like it, there's never been anything like it since. and the certainly wasn't anything like it before, because as we rightly said, that the, the great cry was 15 years of tory, much room, which was often the labor government lost their seats in the, in the mediately, after the war. and they were empowered and the last and that it was 30 years of

tourism. but out of that became this desire. and of course some of these things like the wrong court, which we're creating you writing and they were open to actors from all classes coming on board, you know, but mainly there were actually more to the humbler classes. so when i saw albert finney, who was my great hero, when i saw him do saturday night and sunday morning, because i wanted to be an act i was want to be an american i. that was my was my fantasies. but when i saw him at the plaza sent him and the whole time and dandy he was 24, i was 14, i suddenly thought, oh my god, it's possible it's possible. and then i got this lovely job, but the rap, which is purely chopin's chance that i got it. and i worked there for 2 and a half years and had the best time in my life. and i was very prepared to go to drama school. and when i went to drama school, i had a grunt, i had all my expenses paid and, and also living alone, i had 11 pounds,

living alone, which was on hand. no, unheard of it all. you know it's, it's so punitive know why the kids and that was and we want to know 5 better worse off time at that time it can only than we are now. you know, so it kind of odd to me that, that this is happened and that gentrification has moved in, in a big way and it's, it's happened in london. you can see in london now, you know, young people have to share houses where they could have a decent fly in i hear, you know, 77 kind of young couples sharing a house where they, they have to share bathrooms and everything and it's got, it's got so out of hand, because of the monstrous rise in property prices for one thing, but also in education to says about is exception to that. and if you look across the one thinks of martin calling see smith,

janet buttons and painting. these are all very humble back, and some people have broken up and they are, and the claim in scotland has always been towards scotland is very generous in that way in science. what you did with frederick for university education, if you're a scott, you know, that's correct. that's kept, you know, i'm, you know, i'm a socialist, i believe in gallup pain, us, and i believe that we're all as a sense gotten, we're all job thompson's bins and we all need equal opportunity. unfortunately, some people are more equal than of us. and that's what's happened and it's happened in the theater, and i think it's really sad. and i've been one of my heroes because brian was, was how to wilson. and, but i also got the most, most of the 2 great achievements one was keeping the button vietnam, but the, the 2nd was the open university of course. and what that meant in terms of access to education. so you saying and settling the losing lot, losing access was going into the vassal social mobility. well,

it looks like it's certainly from the art point of view. it looks like i'm sure the know people are se cox is talking nonsense, but just just i am comparing it to a, a really how soon time in the sixty's, when we didn't have any money, we had less money now. but that was social mobility, like i have not seen and has sort of slowly, slowly over the years, shut down. and when we come back, i'm going to talking to brian cox about how he brought flu in the theater and how he has no become less astonishing and to marshal super stop. ah ah, virginia has roared and democrats are really republican glen youngins, gubernatorial. when is nothing less than stunning, he is

a political novice and not a trump farragut. this bo, other election will, how far reaching implications? and he could signal the end of the biting presidency with welcome back, alex, if in conversation with the 2 most famous men to heal from sunday media, magnet logan roy from the city succession played by brian cox. a speaking to brian cox logan roy, but he's due autobiography putting the rabbit in the hot blank call that title robert, and the women that come from well, it comes from when we did campbell integrate all those years ago. it was the opening production of the new national theater on the south bank and then lost

strikes and delays. and we ended up doing other plays in the middle. and we were doing the whole thing that lasted 7 months, which was a long time. so anyway, we come back to rehab shows and we are having difficulties because it's been a rhetorical tumbling so big speeches. so we're having difficulty in there are 3 kings who are attendant large to, to cumberland. and so our was penny was saying, come on, lots come on. it's, you know, you know, it's like you just, you just get there. right. because i'm, so we do, we get a rama my great friend overcoat and he said, yeah, but how do we get to run into that in the 1st place? and so i'm not sure why i got the title putting the robin because it's all very well. you know what you see, but that's the process of actually how we get the rub it into that. so, i mean, after all these great rules in movies and films and cities, of course,

you still got yourself as a thief. act to them is that you know, your 1st a great love. well, actually if i'm absolutely honest my 1st and great love was the movies because it was, that was the sort of, you know, it was the beginning of a kind of, you know, when you're, when you're a kid, when i was a kid, i used to put the pictures, you know, we have double features and we have in my hometown, vending had 21 cinemas at one time and i visited them all from the age of. i started going to pictures, went out to kill cinema when i was about, oh, i see when i was about 5, i started go on my own, which is unheard of. and we had double featured so that, you know, you start at 6 o'clock, you get 2 pictures, it'll be 3 days in the us to send them is office at one another. and so you could see as many as 8 movies in a week. and i always kind of was attractive, but it was always the american stuff that i really loved. the nation gets taught in american action when i was about 5. but of course, what happens to you when you start learning took the business and acting as you're

introduced to the extraordinary world of the theater. but typically the extraordinary mode, or shakespeare, who is singularly the greatest writer plays ever ever. so in a way it distracts you, you got, you get, you follow the lane of a theater, korean, and i, i follow that line, you know, till i was in my mid fourties and i thought, wow, this is, i've done that. but then i felt and exhausted it. i had no less respect, always got to just spent and i still want to do theater. but in the end, i thought, you know, this is a time for me to go further into the cinema and i, at that time there wasn't a great cinema industry here. i mean, there was television, there's always been television, but it wasn't an industry. so i decided to take myself off the hollywood and i didn't, you know, i wasn't a happy decision, but i thought i need to, you know, because you have to reinvent yourself after a while. you know, you're kind of this part of the same boat. so i went and i decided that having

a leading actor in this, in the theater, i decided i would become a, can i track that? you'll have to invent yourself as the 1st hannibal lecter on screen. well, i got that. i run it. i go through a theater pins. i did a play and i'm going to play by ron hutchison, which i did in new york on raton, the skull, and it was actually brian dennehy at the brian denny being offered the role of electro. but he felt he was, it was not his role because he thought he was too big into imposing, you know? yeah, i mean he's gone sadly. dear friend, and so he recommended me to michael man. no, michael man, no, i haven't. you didn't know what it was, but that was you had this brilliant casting director called bonnie tenement. and bonnie came to see me in the play and was completely blown away my by my performance, which was very flattering. but when i went for the film edition with my friend

phillip jackson who played the other characters he played will grant you was my voice off. we're right there. and she said, i don't want to see you. and i said, i don't really want to see you. i said why? i said, well i, i could when i got to the theater, i was late and i couldn't, i my, she was in a very bad position. i can only hear you and it was your voice. i was just transfixed by your voice. so i started the whole thing with my back to the camera, which is actually what i do in the film. i mean, if you look up when let you know tony hopkins, he stands in the middle, the set, you know, meeting tardies. but i was, i my back and i had my back to the, the camera and numbers like that. and then i ton. so that's what happened and that's what, you know, that's how i became an elector. and of course it was a great opportunity for me. but then i had to read, you know, i was living in america i just on to place one after the other. and if the claimant

stringent is co stringent to which i did on broadway, that i did display the public. and i was having a great time but, but then my 1st marriage was falling apart and i realized that i'd have to go home because, you know, my kids would need me. and so i, i just came back, i didn't follow the american thing that and i came back and then out of that i go, i went to stratford and probably had the best time of my kids are career strap. it was a great time and playing great rules. i played tight sandrani cars, which was my signature role at the r i c. and then i went on to the national to play king leah. but i reached a point where i thought i want to shift. now i don't want to become one of those actors who i have huge respect for. and i got a jack a, you know, who did to see it on a regular basis. ian mckellen, i just wasn't me. so i thought, no, i'm going to go and just be, i'm jumping work and it was, it was

a dangerous decision to know it's 50, but it was probably the best decision i ever made. a known for, but just to be a ferocious what ray of in your cheese, the $9.00 to $9.00 to $5.00, a notable a da marsh by being starting in both the 2 scottish blockbusters of that year. brave ha, i'd rob roy. i mean, i have to go off without buy the detail, rob roy, you wouldn't brief up and vice versa. well, i wish i remember i was doing rob roy, i infinitely prefer allen shop script. so rob roy, to the strange brave hot, which i thought because i actually played wallace. i played a wallace on the television some years before. and it was, you know, it was that that strip was a complete fantasy. but you know, about entertaining costs from scott's why hey, position. it was incredible. and but the best bet a script i thought was rob roy and i was doing rob roy and then

a male was definitely he wanted me to be in braveheart. so he said, why can't it now? i really want to do this because i want to, mel gibson was actually offered rob roy before he was off of the film thing and actually be running a good a program because he's actually physically the right high. it's ironic, liam neeson should have played wallace because, well, it was very, very tall. and rob roy, of course, had it rickets and was small and red headed, you know. anyway, he played and lean, played rob roy. so i told the people i said, and now it's kind of big me see, i really want you to be in the fell and try to match a lot. role reversal. brian, professor michelle mel gibson. liam neeson, you've been in the big of a complimentary about mel gibson, a rough time and recent years, but you see him as a a. another great human being. i do, i mean i,

i mean this is chic as you can find in on males mows got problems. there's no question about it, but he is not a bad man. he really isn't a bad man, and i will defend him. you know? because i know him and i know about his generosity. i've seen him deal with that because you've had problems with the alcohol and he was magnificent. he was always generous and kind and caring. i have great compassion from somebody post humble bigler and a label supporter long term, a socialist for what top do towards the idea, the scottish independence and becoming a, a strong figure in the the yes campaign. a 2014 was any single policy on was at mura, a sense of change in social direction. while it was, you know, it seemed that social democracy was absent from the country except north and also a rock and

a 7 passes behavior with the government of the united states. when clearly everybody knows it was, you know, there were no weapons of mass destruction. and we knew that dick cheney was really, it was all about how about and it was all about the oil and i, i just thought nobody can they not see the avarice of that we've caused such. i mean, i think the middle east was very finely balanced anyway, and we cause we, we, we've cause such may have and i was so angry about that and, and, and the humorous. so tony, in many ways dealing with that. so i just, i, i, you know, i felt i was there after because i was the voice of labor in the 97 election. and i was so live in mind that i just really believed in the party big time. but i saw the party slowly getting sold on the river, and i don't think the party is recovered. quite frankly. i really don't. and i

think it's tragic because i still am, i am a socialist, so therefore i don't it. but also we live in the u. k. in a very futile system. you know, everybody in that place of this goes on full upcoming, you know, it's still that it's a bit it's, it's a bit more. i'll agree like, but it's still there and i found out really unacceptable. and i think when do we move on? when do we move on? and i looked at my contribute to scotland too. i've always had a very complicated relationship with when i saw them getting it right. that's something about what's going on. it's gone and then getting it right. and i just felt that i had to shift my allegiance and it was very painful. very tough to do that, but i was, i was really worried about these items and it was worried particularly about and, you know, in scotland had that had, you know, so much of the history of scotland, especially in recent times they always got the to the boss as far as things are concerned, i was, but i kind of get fed up of the, you know,

and i just suddenly got to me, you know, and it really is a question of, you know, my country right or wrong. you know, i just, i just felt that that's what i had to, you know, because i, you know, because of the celtic thing, i just felt the damage my allegiance. and i had to give that me since it was difficult for me because i remember in the ninety's i used to laugh at you alex, i used to laugh at shawn, you know, the idea of shot possibly coming the president of scotland. and i thought, well, surely kind of the president sean connery, it won't work. but no, i mean in the end it was a, it was a journey that i had to take. it was a tough and hard, but i haven't regretted it. i still think that a huge problems, huge problems. i was there recently, and i and there's a lot of no pocket party political criticising, you know, i was on the question, i'm not, i just was very shocked by and, but because of the desperate times that we're in. no one last question about logan

roy. i've been what she was. i mean, if somebody comes to me off to something you'd say them interview the, it doesn't, it doesn't just do vulgar fractions. it does very short sentences. when you're going to be many soliloquies. playing logan roy as a brian. no, no, not in my old age, that's. that's a great blessing. the fact that she is monosyllabic bride casa. thank you so much for lots of luck with the bo griffin. thank you so much for joining. again. i'm now examine show. thank you. alex is pleasure to talk to brian cox. his autobiography couldn't have been better tightens many stars as for sale feast few are lost by their adorning funds to swear to them. the one thing that cooks and logan, who i do have in common is that they are self made. man who take no nonsense and few prisoners that is reflected in cox is tensioned by humorous men walk on

a car to see if encountered in his rags to riches story. other than not, david disagree on just about everything. brian cox, his view on life show business on politics will always spite, i read you audience on this program. i'm so from alex, my soap and all the sure. thank you for watching, stacy. i will see you all again next week. ah ah. ah. the narrative this year is climate change. climate change is being swapped out for we need growth and it's being used to justify money printing. and just like

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