COX IS KING
India Today|March 09, 2020
BRIAN COX HAS BEEN ACTING IN THEATRE, AND IN BLOCKBUSTER FILMS, FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS, BUT IT IS WITH SUCCESSION THAT HE LANDED THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME
Abhishek Sikhwal
COX IS KING

Q. Do you feel the success of Succession is partly due to a cultural shift that questions, and often ridicules, virtues and politically correct morality?

There is an element of that. It is a morality tale, Chaucerian in its ambition, and reflects the mores of the time. We are living in ludicrous times… the rise of the right, the idiocy of Boris Johnson and Donald Trump, the ridiculousness of Vladimir Putin; and, in India, the move towards radical Hinduism, which is actually the opposite of what Hinduism is about. The zeitgeist of the time creates a show as extraordinary as ours.

Q. As someone playing a patriarch on the show, do you think it is imperative that children outshine parents in terms of achievements?

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