Brian Cox

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

News, Politics

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ ? minutes

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In which John Heilemann talks with the Emmy, Golden Globe, and Olivier Award-winning actor Brian Cox, whose buzzy performance as billionaire media tycoon Logan Roy in the HBO series Succession has turned him into a pop culture phenom at age 75. Heilemann and Cox dissect the hit show and how the struggles of Logan and his scheming, hapless progeny reveal the corrosive effects of money, power, and privilege; Cox’s delightful and at times dishy new memoir, Putting the Rabbit in the Hat, and some of his most famous roles on stage and screen (from Titus Andronicus and King Lear to the first cinematic incarnation of Hannibal Lecktor in Michael Mann's Manhunter); his withering disdain for method acting and mischievous pride in being a "good old-fashioned shit-stirrer"—as demonstrated by the well-publicized shade-throwing in his book at Johnny Depp, Edward Norton, and Quentin Tarantino. Cox also discusses his performances as big historical figures such as Churchill, Goering, and LBJ, and whether he'd ever be keen to play Donald Trump (spoiler alert: nope). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:01.0	Like pretty much everyone who loves A. Great Acting, B. Great Writing, C. Pitch Black Comedy,
1:08.8	D. The Boi-eristic Thrill of watching a lightly fictionalized rendering of the milieu and
1:14.8	manners of the billionaire class, in particular those of a right-wing media baron and his
1:19.8	children, and discovering all of it to be exactly as empty, soulless, corrupt, politically
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1:31.4	or at least hope, those manners of milieu to be, the third season of succession was one
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