Succession Star Brian Cox Part One

Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger

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Self-improvement, Business, Investing, Education

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

What better time to binge watch a new show, or revisit a favorite, than Thanksgiving weekend? Earlier this year (pre-pandemic) I had a chance to interview Scottish actor Brian Cox, star of Succession. Cox, who plays patriarch Logan Roy on the HBO series, talks about how he’s come to understand his character, what the two men have in common and the one question about Logan he’s still struggling with. Cox reveals which character he believes is the moral compass on the show and what it has been like working with guest stars Holly Hunter and Cherry Jones. I'm telling you, if you haven't checked out the show, watch a couple episodes and I guarantee you'll be hooked. Have a money question? Email me here. Please leave us a rating or review in Apple Podcasts. "Jill on Money" theme music is by Joel Goodman, www.joelgoodman.com. 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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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jill on Money Podcast. It is Saturday, November 28th, and here's the kind of thing that happens on the show that is so funny to me. Mark is telling me
0:14.6	about how his family has been binge watching succession, that amazing HBO show
0:21.2	and he took the opportunity of the lockdown to catch up on this show and then he and his beloved got obsessed with it. They loved it and I said, hey, you know what? I conducted an interview before the pandemic with one of the stars with
0:35.1	Brian Cox who plays Logan Roy, the patriarch of this crazy media family.
0:42.1	Mark I guess I had forgotten I did that I did it for
0:44.2	CBS this morning and so we went and found the interview and now remember this is
0:50.4	pre- Pandemic in the first part of the interview it's all about the hit show
0:54.8	succession here is the first part of our interview with Brian Cox talk about
1:00.3	your success on this show and how it seems to have just gained momentum
1:05.8	every single episode from the first season right through to the second
1:09.1	season. Well it's been a sleeper and it's been quite extraordinary and I think the show has been great
1:14.6	from the word go but it it took a while for the public to get with it and now they're
1:19.7	with a vengeance I mean I they love the show and they love the family you know the family they love the family they love to hate
1:27.9	What I want to know about Logan or how you play Logan is is the business really his primary spouse and his primary concern and everyone else just orbits around it?
1:41.0	Well, I think the key, and it's in episode 7 of the first I mean
1:45.2	there's little we have there's little reveals that the audience don't always get
1:50.5	because it just passes rather quickly.
1:53.0	And I think the reveal is it's an elaborate game
1:58.0	and it's the great game for Logan.
2:01.0	And I think it's something to do with his childhood, it's to some of his background,
2:05.8	it's something to do with his kind of sense of non-affiliation which he's had throughout his entire life.
2:11.7	He's a self-made man. He's not, these are the, these are the Roy's. They're not the Murdoch's, they're not Redstone, they're not any of them. They're the Roys Roy's and they have they are their own entity
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