Brian Cox Says Jeremy Strong “Begged Me To Stop” Discussing His Method Acting: “He’s A Wonderful Actor”

Although Succession ended three years ago, Brian Cox is mitigating some behind-the-scenes Roy family drama.

The Golden Globe winner recently praised his former onscreen son Jeremy Strong as “a wonderful actor” after saying that his co-star’s method acting style was “f*cking annoying” during a 2023 interview.

“I don’t want to go on about Jeremy, because I’ve got into a lot of problems and he’s begged me to stop talking about him,” Cox explained to The Times. “He’s a good actor, Jeremy. He’s a wonderful actor. It’s just all the bollocks that goes with it. You watch children — they don’t say, ‘What’s my motivation?’ They just do it!”

Amid the fourth and final season of HBO’s Succession, Cox prefaced that Strong is “a very good actor,” adding that the rest of the cast “is all okay with this. But knowing a character and what the character does

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