Hello and welcome to Unspooled Top 3.

I'm excited about our guest on top 3 today.

I'm excited and nervous.

You know him from over 230 films.

He is currently the star of Session.

He has been in the universes of the X-Men.

He originated the role of Hannibal Lecter and Michael Mann's Man Hunter.

I mean the list goes on and on.

Brian Cox is one of those faces that you see in films that I think I get giddy because

I know there's going to be a good scene or a good part.

He's just kind of an electric performer, no matter if the role is big or small.

He's always doing something really interesting.

He is and he has just come out with a book, a memoir of his life called Putting the Rabbit

in the Hat where he talks about his approach to acting but he also talks a lot about his

really rough childhood.

He was born into a working class family in Dundee, Scotland.

He was actually born like backwards umbilical cord tied around his neck almost died.

His mother was never the same.

His father died when he was eight.

His mother had to raise the family alone while being under a lot of stress.

He talks about growing up so poor that when they ran out of money and didn't have

enough to even eat dinner, he would go across to like the fish and chip store and like

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