Brian Cox

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 8 March 2022

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You probably know Brian Cox from Succession. He plays patriarch Logan Roy on the show. But Brian has hundreds of credits acting with a career spanning decades: movies, TV shows, even a stint with the Royal Shakespeare Company! Cox recounts his career in a new memoir. Putting the Rabbit in the Hat covers his childhood, growing up in postwar Dundee, Scotland, his time studying and performing Shakespeare in the U.K., and his big break into TV and film.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:14.3	I'm Jesse Thorn, it's Bullseye.
0:23.8	Brian Cox is an actor with over 250 credits to his name.
0:29.6	That includes award-winning performances with the Royal Shakespeare Company,
0:33.6	playing the original Hannibal Lecter in the 1986 thriller Man Hunter,
0:37.6	and playing the headmaster of Rushmore Academy in the Wes Anderson Classic Rushmore.
1:00.6	But the truth is he'll probably end up best known for playing Logan Roy on succession.
1:06.6	Succession is a TV drama about the mega-rich dysfunctional Roy family
1:11.6	and the giant media empire they control.
1:14.6	Cox's character is the family's patriarch and perhaps the coldest grumpiest man on television today.
1:21.6	Someone spiked his.
1:24.6	What's running you, boys? Did it?
1:28.6	Tom! Yes?
1:29.6	Sit on the floor! It's fun.
1:32.6	Seriously?
1:33.6	Yeah, to game, bore on the floor. I really, I feel, get down!
1:38.6	What now?
1:39.6	Nothing, tell you later.
1:41.6	Go, I'll f***ing say!
1:42.6	It's not a big deal.
1:45.6	Lisa Arthur is going to represent Kendall.
1:48.6	Huh?
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