Scottish actor Brian Cox supports striking screenwriters in Hollywood

Scottish actor Brian Cox on Sunday lent his support to striking screenwriters in Hollywood, who he pointed out are “very clearly the primary forces” creations and should as such “to be rewarded at their fair value”. Brian Cox, who complained about the premature end of his tyrannical character Logan Roy in the hit HBO series “Succession”described on the BBC as “genius” its British creator, Jesse Armstrong. Hollywood screenwriters went on strike in May over failed talks with major studios and platforms over a pay hike.

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Succession is a scathing chronicle about a sibling of ultra-rich fighting for the empire of their patriarch, Logan Roy, inspired among others by the Australian-American Rupert Murdoch and played by Brian Cox. The series has established itself as a critical and popular success despite the characters, each more detestable than the other. “It’s a great role because it’s an archetype. He is like the King Lear, the great Shakespearean archetype of the patriarch. In the King Lear, Lear must bequeath his kingdom to his daughters. That’s what he does. But they are not satisfied. In Successionall the children want to inherit the kingdom, but, for him, none is capable of it”he analyzed. On the BBC, Brian Cox returned to the end of the series: “I take it, I didn’t see the ending, that my character was right because he knew this was all going to happen.”