Succession said goodbye last year after four seasons, but we may not have seen the last of the Roy family.
It has swept the awards this awards season, starting with the Golden Globe, and continuing this weekend with the Critics Choice Awards, and the Emmy Awards, presented by the United States Television Academy.
On Monday night it was crowned with 6, for best series, direction, script (both, for its creator, Jesse Armstrong), leading actors (Kieran Culkin and Sarah Snook) and supporting actor (Matthew Macfadyen). For its four seasons, Succession won 20 Emmys.
Brian Cox He did not win it this time, nor when he was nominated in two other previous seasons, but he does have one, which he obtained for The Nuremberg Trial (2001), for best actor in a miniseries or television movie.
Brian Cox, who played patriarch Logan Roy on the hit HBO series, says he’s open to a movie Succession. “We’ll see,” Cox said at the Maybourne Hotel in Beverly Hills. “If he’s good enough and (series creator) Jesse Armstrong wants to do it, he could do it.”
The plot of the film
What Logan’s story would be is anyone’s guess, because (Spoiler Alert) he died in the final season. The series, which ended after its fourth season, followed a dysfunctional American family in the global press business.
But Cox believes Armstrong ended the series at the right time. “What I love about this and what I love about Jesse Armstrong is that we’re not past our sell-by date,” he said. “A lot of American shows are past their expiration dates. We’ve kept people wanting. You always want to keep people wanting.”
Anything Cox doesn’t like? Kieran Culkin’s suggestion that Nicholas Braun’s character, Cousin Greg, could make a good spin-off. “I don’t think Nick Braun wanted to do it either,” Cox said. “He’s moving on to other things that are really exciting for him.”
Brian Denis Cox was born on June 1, 1946 in Dundee, Scotland. He is an actor and producer, known, in addition to Succession (2018), X-Men 2 (2003) and Troy (2004). He is married to Nicole Ansari-Cox, with whom he has two children. He has been married to Caroline Burt. And few know that he was the first Hannibal Lecter, when Michael Mann directed the film Manhunter, hunter of menreleased in 1986.
Cox arrived at the Emmys on Monday night as a nominee for outstanding lead actor in a drama series for his work as the ruthless Logan. He insists that he had not prepared an acceptance speech. “I don’t believe in them,” he said. “It’s going to be a natural thing. It’s going to be a natural thing. And if I don’t win, that’s how it will be.”
Cox is currently preparing for her next starring role in a new London West End production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night, by Eugene O’Neill. It is expected to open at Wyndham’s Theater in the spring, in March or April.