It’s clear that not everyone has a crushing admiration for Sir Ian McKellen, who is widely regarded as one of Britain’s greatest living actors.
The awards are huge, including a Tony Award and six Laurence Olivier Awards, and he has been nominated for two Academy Awards.
All that, and he played Gandalf and Magneto! He is undoubtedly a legend in the acting profession.
At least in some circles, because it seems that the Lord of the Rings star is not everyone’s favorite. Nevertheless, there was one actor he was careful not to comment on this time… in a way. Brian Cox has a habit of speaking straight from the heart!
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When asked about Jeremy Strong, who played his eldest son in Succession, and his previous comments about method acting, Cox refused to elaborate on it – while somehow insulting it.
“I don’t want to keep talking about Jeremy,” he said. “I’ve gotten into a lot of trouble, and he’s asked me to stop talking about him. He is a good actor, Jeremy. He is a fantastic actor. It’s just all the nonsense that comes with it.”
In the past, Cox has said that he prefers “identity diffusion” over traditional method acting, and he stated to The New Yorker that “you have to go through the ordeal that the character has to go through.”
Then we come to another acting legend, the one and only Brian Cox, who today is best known for playing the grumpy Logan Roy in Succession and for criticizing other actors.
This week, in an interview with The Times, Cox is said to have listed a number of actors he doesn’t care about, and that supposedly included Sir Ian, 86 years old.
Edward Norton? “A nuisance.” Kevin Spacey? “A stupid, stupid person.” Sir Ian’s acting? “Not my taste,” he is said to have said to the journalist.
We’re not entirely sure why Cox, 79, feels this way. The duo have worked together several times, most notably on a Royal National Theatre production of King Lear, and we’ve found photos of them together online.
Perhaps his attitude is best explained by a later quote from the interview, where he made it clear that he is too old to care about such things.
“My wife keeps saying, ‘Brian, be careful. Brian, be careful,'” he explained.
“I’m like, ‘F* it, I don’t want to be careful anymore! I’ll be 80 this year. F* it! I will say what I want to say.'”
And it’s not exactly the case that Sir Ian was the only actor to go through. Cox also took a dig at Johnny Depp, calling him “so over-inflated, so overrated.”
Brian Cox did not hold back in the face of America’s orange, demented and evil president either in the interview with The Times.
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