- Actor Brian Cox thinks “Succession” killed off Logan Roy “too early” in its ultimate season.
- The star praised the character’s ending, calling it “a superb scene.”
- Cox admitted he felt “somewhat rejected” when he first learn the script.
“Succession” season 4 pulled the rug out from beneath the viewers when Waystar Royco head Logan Roy (Brian Cox) all of a sudden died in episode three whereas flying to Norway, leaving the Roy siblings in a sophisticated sea of grief — and potential enterprise alternatives.
However they weren’t the one ones who struggled with the Roy patriarch’s dying, as Brian Cox recalled to the BBC in an interview Wednesday what it was like discovering out that creator and govt producer Jesse Armstrong was going to kill Logan off.
“Armstrong determined to make Logan die, I feel in the end too early,” mentioned Cox.
“I imply, he’d made him die within the third episode. And it was an awesome scene. That is why I did not watch it, as a result of I’ve little interest in watching. My very own dying will come quickly sufficient. However I simply thought, ‘Wow,’ you realize, he did it brilliantly. It was a superb scene, the entire act.”
When requested if he tried to delay Logan’s inevitable demise, Cox mentioned: “There isn’t any level taking place that street, particularly with someone like Jesse, as a result of he is already made a plan.”
The “Manhunter,” “Bourne Identification,” and “Zodiac” star additionally admitted that he felt “rejected” by his character’s sudden demise so near the top of the sequence.
“I appeared on it, wrongly, as a type of rejection,” mentioned Cox. “I used to be high-quality with it in the end, however I did really feel somewhat bit rejected. I felt somewhat bit, ‘Oh, all of the work I’ve accomplished. And at last, I will find yourself as a New Yorker on a carpet of a airplane.’”
Cox mentioned that some followers have additionally advised him that they do not wish to watch “Succession” anymore due to his character’s dying, which he believes is lacking the purpose of the present.
“They mentioned, ‘No, I am not going to observe anymore. You’ve got gone, I am not watching.’ Which I feel is unlucky and pointless as a result of the present is in regards to the succession,” mentioned the actor. “So you could see what’s taking place within the wake of his demise. However, you realize, I am not the author.”
The ultimate episode of “Succession” airs Sunday on HBO.