Succession star Brian Cox took aim at some of the biggest names in Hollywood in a brutally honest rant in his memoir where he called out who he thought weren’t the best of blokes.
Cox may not be that much like his Succession character Logan Roy, but if there’s anything he shares with his TV counterpart it is his brutal honesty.
In the past the actor has shown how unafraid he is of calling out other celebrities, even if it’s people he could end up working with.
This even saw him slamming his Succession co-star Jeremy Strong, telling The Guardian he thought his method acting was ‘annoying’.
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That is nothing though compared to the words he had for celebs such as Johnny Depp, Edward Norton, Kevin Spacey, and Quentin Tarantino in his 2021 memoir Putting the Rabbit in the Hat.
Cox starred alongside Norton in the 2002 Spike Lee film 25th Hour, however he said the actor was a ‘pain in the a*se’, saying: “He’s a nice lad but a bit of a pain in the a*se because he fancies himself as a writer-director.”
The Scottish actor never worked alongside Johnny Depp, however he did turn down the role of the governor in Pirates of the Caribbean which was eventually filled by Johnathon Pryce.
He said that Depp was ‘so overblown, so overrated’, and that he was relieved to not have had to work alongside him.
Kevin Spacey was an actor he starred alongside in 1994’s Iron Will, and whilst he had praise for him as an actor he was far less effusive in discussing him as a person.
He said Spacey was ‘a great talent, but a stupid, stupid man’.
Cox added: “As an actor he was good… A little bit flashy at times. A little bit glib.”
Spacey has since been accused by multiple young men of sexual abuse and assault, and Cox claimed that he had firsthand seen the actor acting inappropriately with young men.
The Succession star said that at a party the pair attended Spacey hit on every young man there.
He finally said on Spacey: “It was an open secret , you could see that it was a habit with him.”
On Tarantino he specifically aimed at his work, as this was years before the director would himself call Paul Dano the ‘weakest f*cking actor in Hollywood’ to much outcry.
He said of the director: “I find his work meretricious (attractive but with no real value), it’s all surface. Plot mechanics in place of depth.
“Style where there should be substance. I walked out of Pulp Fiction.
“That said, if the phone rang, I’d do it.”
The worst though was saved for Michael Caton Jones, a Scottish director who directed Cox in the film Rob Roy, who he called a ‘complete a***hole’, and David Hare, who he called a ‘see you next Tuesday’. Ouch.
Topics: Celebrity, TV and Film
Michael Slavin