Brian Cox shares his opinions on Steven Seagal, Johnny Depp, Ed Norton, and other colleagues
Cox's autobiography, Putting The Rabbit In The Hat, has lots to say about his fellow actors
We’ve written before that Brian Cox, despite how perfectly he embodies the role of Succession’s acid-tongued patriarch Logan Roy, is not his character. He is a man who teaches Shakespeare to children and hangs out with Cookie Monster. He is not the terrifying head of a global media empire who can cut down his opponents with a withering glare or single, cutting remark. And yet, when it comes to those he’s not keen on in show business, it turns out Cox has a bit of Logan’s capacity for devastating insults in him after all.
The Big Issue excerpted a few of Cox’s opinions on his colleagues as shared in his autobiography, Putting The Rabbit In The Hat. The most striking of his comments center on Johnny Depp, Quentin Tarantino, and, unsurprisingly, Steven Seagal.
Of Depp, he writes: “Personable though I’m sure he is, [he] is so overblown, so overrated. I mean, Edward Scissorhands. Let’s face it, if you come on with hands like that and pale, scarred-face make-up, you don’t have to do anything. And he didn’t. And subsequently, he’s done even less.”
He also says “Steven Seagal is as ludicrous in real life as he appears on screen. He radiates a studied serenity, as though he’s on a higher plane to the rest of us.” Cox’s thought finishes: “… while he’s certainly on a different plane, no doubt about that, it’s probably not a higher one.”