I felt a little bit rejected when Logan Roy was killed off, says Cox
BRIAN COX says he thinks his character of Logan Roy was written out “too early” of the hit show Succession.
The Scottish actor, 76, said although the shock twist had been done “in a pretty brilliant way” he had felt “a little bit rejected” by the decision.
The Roy family patriarch and global media tycoon was killed off in episode three of the latest series when his character died after suffering a heart attack on a private jet. Speaking on BBC Two’s Amol Rajan Interviews ahead of Succession’s series four finale, Cox said it would perhaps have been more appropriate for Roy to die in the fifth or sixth episode.
“I was fine with it ultimately, but I did feel a little bit rejected,” he said. “I felt a little bit, oh, all the work I’ve done and finally I’m going to, you know, end up as an ear on a carpet of a plane.”
Details of Logan’s death were a wellkept secret, which Cox said he played a part in by appearing on set to “film” scenes he was not required to be in. Cox said he had gone “on his own volition” so that members of the paparazzi attending the shoot would not become suspicious. In the interview, he also told Rajan that he thinks Logan might still be alive.
“I still believe this, maybe Logan isn’t dead. This could be part of an elaborate ruse to find out,” he said. “If you think about it, from Logan’s point of view, he has to find out how are his children going to behave when he dies, what will then happen? The only way to do that is to fake his death and actually, at some distant point, he’s observing the chaos that is following.”
But he added that the character would not “come back from the dead”, saying: “I’m just saying that could have been a supposition.”
The Sky series follows Roy and his children, three of whom are jostling to take over from him as chief executive.
Many have drawn parallels between the Roy family with the real-life Murdoch family, but British writer Jesse Armstrong has maintained the series is fictional and not intended to be a representation of them.