Brian Cox Rips Into Hollywood Actors Including Johnny Depp, Edward Norton & Ian McKellen

Brian Cox has gone full Logan Roy in a new interview with The Times, ranting about some of the biggest names in Hollywood and calling them ‘stupid’ and ‘complete a*seholes’, amongst other things.

The Succession legend told the outlet that now he’s turning 80, he is going to ‘say what he wants’. I’ll just list in bullet form everyone he dissed and what he said about them…

• Said Kevin Spacey is a “great talent, but a stupid, stupid man”
• Described Johnny Depp as “so overblown, so overrated”
• Edward Norton is “a pain in the a*se”
• Ian McKellen is “not to my taste”
• said Jeremy Strong is “f*ing annoying” (about his method acting)
• mocked Margot Robbie’s accent and said she was “far too beautiful” for the Wuthering Heights role (I guess that one’s a complimnet)
• Quentin Tarantino is “meretricious”
• described Gary Oldman’s performance as Churchill was “cobblers”
• Michael Caton-Jones is a “complete a*sehole”
• David Hare is a “c***.”
• said Meghan Markle “knew what she was getting into… there’s an ambition there clearly”
• described Donald Trump as “ignorant,” “a nuisance,” and a “deadbeat”
• described Nigel Farage as “hideous” and “appalling”

Now I know what you’re thinking – what the hell does ‘meretricious’ mean? Well according to google it means “superficially attractive or flashy but, in reality, has no true value, substance, or integrity,” which I guess is not an inaccurate way of describing Tarantino’s movies, but come on, they’re bloody entertaining!

He also went particularly hard on Succession co-star Jeremy Strong’s method acting style: ‘I don’t put up with all that American s***. I’m sorry. All that sort of “I think, therefore I feel.” Just do the job. Don’t identify. Of course, Jeremy was Daniel Day-Lewis’ assistant. So he’s learned all that stuff from Dan.’

There’s a couple names on that diss list that I don’t recognise, but still, you have to admire the way Brian Cox is just firing shots without a care in the world here. The guy is 80 years old and doesn’t want to bite his tongue anymore. Fair enough. He’s reached the ‘give zero fvcks’ stage of his life which is somewhere we all aspire to be eventually.

You could also argue he’s earned the right to talk all this sh1t given what a long and successful career he’s had. Maybe next time he can talk about the actors he actually does rate? Just to prove he isn’t a completely miserable pr1ck.

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