Brian Cox on Succession’s Season 2 Finale, Trump, Murdoch, Scottish Independence, and Playing LBJ
The original plan was for Logan Roy to die at the end of season one of Succession, Brian Cox told me a few days before the season two finale, over a lunch of onion soup, meze, and a couple of Arnold Palmers in a Persian restaurant near his 51st-floor apartment in Brooklyn.
Cox, dressed smartly in a crisp shirt and sports jacket, laughed as he recalled the key phone call with the show’s executive producer Adam McKay and creator Jesse Armstrong where he learned wily patriarch Logan’s life would be extended somewhat.
“I said, ‘So, I’m out at the end of the first season? From their phones in Italy and Los Angeles came this chorus of “Oh no, oh no.’”