Brian Cox doesn’t take his work home with him.
Continuing his recent headline-grabbing comments about Succession, the veteran actor—who plays patriarch Logan Roy in the HBO family drama—slammed method acting on-stage at the Toronto International Film Festival Sept. 14. During a post-screening Q&A for his new film Prisoner’s Daughter, he deemed the technique “crap.”
“I don’t hold a lot of the American s–t,” he said, as quoted by The Hollywood Reporter. “Having to have a religious experience every time you play a part—it’s crap.”
For Cox, he simply doesn’t want to bring his work home with him after filming all day. “I don’t hang onto the characters I play,” he continued. “I let them go through me. The thing is to be ready to accept, as an actor. You stand there, you’re ready to accept whatever is thrown at you.”
After comparing Roy with his Prisoner’s Daughter character Max, Roy noted that he just lets his characters “come through” him, adding, “you don’t get in the f–king way.”
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