Brian Cox has hinted at a major plot twist as dark comedy Succession draws to a close next week. His foul-mouther character, media mogul Logan Roy, was killed off in episode three of the latest series in a shock turn.
But the Scottish actor, 76, revealed on BBC Two’s Amol Rajan Interviews that he thinks Logan might still be alive. Speaking ahead of Succession’s series four finale, he said: “I still believe this, maybe Logan isn’t dead. This could be part of an elaborate ruse to find out If you think about it, from Logan’s point of view, he has to find out how are his children going to behave when he dies, what will then happen?
"The only way to do that is to fake his death and actually, at some distant point, he’s observing the chaos that is following.” But he added that the character would not “come back from the dead”, saying: “I’m just saying that could have been a supposition.”
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Cox also reckoned the Roy family patriarch and global media tycoon was written out of the hit HBO show “too early”. He said although the shock twist had been done “in a pretty brilliant way” he had felt “a little bit rejected” by the decision.
He added that it would perhaps have been more appropriate for the character to die in the fifth or sixth episode. “I was fine with it ultimately, but I did feel a little bit rejected,” he said.
“You know, I felt a little bit, oh, all the work I’ve done and finally I’m going to, you know, end up as an ear on a carpet of a plane.”
Details of Logan’s death were a well-kept secret, which Cox said he played a part in by appearing on set to “film” scenes he was not required to be in. Cox said he had gone “on (his) own volition” so that members of the paparazzi attending the shoot would not become suspicious.
During the interview, Cox also reflected on his childhood, his career, his thoughts on Scottish independence and why he supports the writers’ strike in Hollywood.
The full interview, Brian Cox: Amol Rajan Interviews, is on BBC Two on Thursday May 25 at 7pm and BBC iPlayer. The Succession season finale, which will be 90 minutes long, airs on HBO Max and Sky Atlantic on Sunday, May 28.
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