Churchill actor says war leader would not have been a Trump fan
Scottish actor Brian Cox has said his latest character Sir Winston Churchill would not have been a fan of Donald Trump or Boris Johnson.
The actor, 71, plays the former British prime minister in new film Churchill, which depicts the build-up to the D-day landings in Normany on June 1944.
He told Radio Times magazine: “Churchill would have thought Donald Trump was an idiot.
“He was a man of principle, and I don’t think he would have liked Boris Johnson, who wrote a book about him.
“Johnson thinks of himself as Churchill, but he hasn’t got the gumption of Churchill.
“He is an opportunist, and he is about as deep as a blackhead.”
Cox had to gain weight and shave his head for the film, which stars Miran- da Richardson as Clementine Churchill and John Slattery as Dwight D Eisenhower.
But he revealed he used electric cigars instead of the real thing while he was in character as the wartime hero.
Cox also spoke of what he said was an “insidious” caste system in British society.
The actor, who headed to America in the 1990s, said: “It’s a very interesting thing about the feudalism of English society.
“It’s about who you are and where you come from, how you operate within that world.
“It’s the caste system, which still exists and is actually even worse now. I mean it really is it’s more insidious.”
Churchill is released Friday.