Anyone who has come this far in search of a good dose of sadism to which Logan Roy has accustomed us can start reading. Because Brian Cox (Dundee, 1946) does not inhabit a bit of it. Those who have spent the last 48 hours with him in Madrid say that he walked excitedly through the corridors of the Prado Museum on his fifth visit to the art gallery and that he impassively resisted the shouts of a group of schoolchildren while he was delighted with The Executions of Torrijos, by Antonio Gisbert, which he himself had asked to see, before confronting the alter ego of his character, portrayed by Goya: Saturn devouring his children. As the same Scottish actor will try to do in the fourth season of Succession, which HBO Max has just released, as a finale to his latest international hit.
The only similarity between the real person and the character is their hometown of Dundee, where Cox grew up in a humble family without a father from his earliest childhood. “My roots are important, but I don’t stop there,” she says. «I am very happy when I return to my city, but I still have certain reservations about it because of the way it developed in the 60s, with the corruption that existed. And the city is not good now either. The poor are getting poorer and we also have the highest heroin addiction in Europe.”
From there the actor emerged who at the age of 70, after doing all of Shakespeare’s tragedies imaginable on stage and the first Hannibal Lecter in Manhunter, landed in Succession to win his first Golden Globe.
Suddenly, without warning, Logan Roy has appeared.
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