Let us all be envious of this toddler being taught Hamlet's soliloquy by Brian Cox
For close to 60 years, Brian Cox has consistently delivered some of the best stage and screen performances by any living actor—from his numerous Shakespearean roles to his criminally under-appreciated meta-performance in Deadwood’s third season to his elevating of schlockier genre fare like cult favorites Trick r’ Treat and Super Troopers. There’s also his latest turn as the looming family patriarch and media magnate, Logan Roy, on HBO’s Succession (which you need to be watching, by the way).
Any actor, let alone lowly pedestrian, might rightfully feel graced by God if Cox sat in to learn them a thing or two about the art form. Knowing this, we totally aren’t resentful of this cherubic toddler sitting, clearly oblivious, next to Brian Cox as he teaches them the opening lines to Hamlet’s famous “To be, or not to be?” soliloquy in this unearthed 2009 video.