![]() ![]() I think most of them are confused, and bad actions come out of their confusion.’ On Roman: ‘He’s got a potty mouth and is stunted, but he’s quite bright and has a vision of things. The most evil Roy? ‘I don’t think anybody’s evil. ![]() I want to keep my weight under control - it’s been a problem all my life’), I give up asking for spoilers and instead grill him about the characters that for four years have kept viewers in thrall. While we wait for our food to arrive (‘I’ll just have a couple of starters. Audiences… you just have to treat them like children. Human beings: what a terrible experiment. ‘Everybody’s curious, and I just tell them to mind their own f***ing business,’ says Cox. It’s a mystery of human nature that people seek out spoilers for their favourite shows - yet they do. Another agenda has to kick itself in, in order to complete the show. You know, “Will he, won’t he, will he, won’t he.” After three seasons that’s okay, but in a fourth, you’ve got to do something else. If you think about it, the kids are always in the same state. It was never discussed how many seasons it would run, but I think Jesse felt he’d really exhausted it. As for the fact that there will be no season five, he says: ‘I’m glad it’s over. ‘Not allowed.’ A word to describe it, then? ‘Expectation.’ He’s a little more forthcoming on where it was filmed: mainly in New York, with a sequence in Norway. ![]() Meanwhile rails of clothes have been artfully manoeuvred into another room, which elicits a ‘Jesus Christ! What are all these f***ing clothes doing in my bedroom?!’Ĭox probably wants to tell me to f*** off when I ask him for details on season four, which writer Jesse Armstrong has confirmed will be the show’s last. ‘What do you f***ing think?!’ Cox fires back. ‘Are you an art collector?’ the photographer proffers as an ice-breaker. The set being his cosy Primrose Hill flat, where every surface seemed to be covered in moody oil paintings, bronze sculptures, books and unopened post. Our interview takes place a few weeks after his ES Magazine cover shoot - where the crew were met with an irascible Cox who had been ‘stuck in a f***ing traffic jam for three f***ing hours’ getting to set. Everybody wants me to tell them to f*** off.’ Of course, he regularly deploys it even when not in character. ‘Oh, I do have a catchphrase,’ he says, missing the sarcasm. They can get a bit excited, but on the whole they’re nice.’Īt least he doesn’t have a catchphrase that gets bellowed at him everywhere he goes, I joke. ‘It’s just the way it is,’ he says, equably. Since being cast in 2019 as the cantankerous, battle-weary patriarch Logan Roy in Succession, his profile has soared, the anonymity he had relished during his 60-year acting career now diminished. Rian Cox is tucked away in the back of a restaurant in leafy north London, facing the wall, his baseball cap pulled down over his face. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT. ![]()
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