FOR A LEGION of viewers, Brian Cox is now best known as fire-breathing über-CEO Logan Roy in Jesse Armstrong ’s comedy-drama Succession. But as his new memoir, Putting The Rabbit In The Hat, reveals, it’s been a long journey to Logan: from Cox’s Scottish workingclass roots to numerous highprofile roles in films such as Braveheart and Manhunter — plus lesser-known parts along the way, including one in The Glimmer Man alongside Steven Seagal, an actor he declares “as ludicrous in real life as he appears on screen”. With Succession’s third season now airing, Cox doesn’t hold back.
Does Logan Roy feel like your defining role?