Strict? It couldn’t be father from the truth
Actor says kids need to fail to succeed
Jennifer Hyland
Brian Cox says his parenting skills are nothing like his ruthless on-screen character.
The Dundee- born actor plays media mogul Logan Roy – who lets his children fight for control of his empire – in Succession.
Each one of them seems dependent on him and almost self- destruct trying to win his approval.
But dad-of-four Brian, 74, has said that he doesn’t overly protect his own children and feels they should be “allowed to fail”.
Speaking on David Tennant Does A Podcast With…, he said: “My thing is not to protect my children. I differ from my wife in that. “Having lived through failure as a child, big time, I getdrivenbythegetdrivenbythe fact that I should be responsible and should set down boundaries and all that stuff but I’m hopeless. I’m useless at all that.
“But I also feel that children should be allowed to fail. You only really learn frofrom failing. That is the story of my carcareer – it was through my failures and things that I didn’t quite achachieve that I learnt.
“LLike how do I get over that humhump and how do I negotiate the nexnext part?”
SpSpeaking from his home in New YorkYork, he added that he feels more in totouch with Scotland the further he trtravels from the country but still loves going home.
He said: “I also feel more Scottish the furtherfu away I get. I love Scotland. I love it. I love the country, I love gettingetting home.
“I loloved it more as I got older. When I was younger, I used to look at the river TayT and couldn’t wait to get across it.
“But it grew to be the opposite and I’m very proud to be Scottish.
“I think about returning home – it’s one of my fantasies and a bit of a dream.”