Brian Cox did what he does best, said exactly what he thought about a string of Hollywood names, including Margot Robbie, Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Spacey and Donald Trump, with very little regard for the consequences.
Talk to The times in an interview published Friday April 3, the 79-year-old Succession The star weighed in on Robbie’s casting in the Wuthering Heights adaptation, in which she plays Catherine Earnshaw opposite Jacob Elordi’s Heathcliff.
“Margot Robbie is way too beautiful for this role,” Cox said.
“I mean, I think there should be something more gypsy about her, but I’m wrong to judge. Maybe it will be a brilliant film.”
He then mocked his Australian accent with an impression of how he imagined the film might sound, joking: “Keith Cliff! It’s me, Cathy! » “How are you, Keith?” All right ? “Yeah, I’m fine!” “
Cox then turned his attention to Tarantino.
Describing his own preference for directing, he said: “I like to honor the actor’s performance. With a Quentin Tarantino movie, what you see is all Quentin Tarantino. That’s not me. I don’t want to do that.”
He called Tarantino “meretricious”, meaning seemingly attractive but lacking in real value or integrity.
He also called out Kevin Spacey, his co-star in the 1994 film iron will“a stupid, stupid man”, and had pointed words for Trump: “Trump doesn’t care about people. He only cares about oil.” [in Iran]. There’s just fucking greed driving him, nothing else. The idea that it frees people is absurd. »
On Jeremy Strong, his Succession co-star he has repeatedly criticized, Cox seemed to be trying to lightly dial things back.
“I don’t want to talk about Jeremy, because I had a lot of problems and he begged me to stop talking about him. He’s a good actor, Jeremy.”
As for whether his bluntness cost him professionally, that didn’t bother Cox.
“My wife keeps saying, ‘Brian, be careful. Brian, be careful.’ I’m like, “Damn, I don’t want to pay attention anymore!” I will be 80 this year. F*** I’ll say what I mean. “
