Brian Cox Says Death Came Too Early for ‘Succession’ Patriarch Logan Roy: ‘I Did Feel a Little Bit Rejected’
thewrap.comLogan’s death, while anticipated, came in the third episode of the HBO drama’s fourth and final season — much earlier than many viewers expected.In a BBC Two interview with Amol Rajan, Cox said, “I was fine with it, ultimately, but I did feel a little bit rejected.
You know, I felt a little bit like all the work I’ve done [is being overlooked] and finally I’m going to, you know, end up as an ear on a carpet of a plane.”It was “ultimately too early” Cox said of his character’s demise, which he would have preferred to happen in the fifth or sixth episode.
Despite his shortened run on the season, HBO will still submit him as Lead Actor at the upcoming Emmy Awards.Since Logan’s death, his ambitious children Kendall (Jeremy Strong), Roman (Kieran Culkin) and Shiv (Sarah Snook) have continued their bitter battle to fill his footsteps and take control of their family’s media empire.
In the BBC Two interview, Cox also floated his “supposition” that Logan might have pulled one last, incredibly manipulative trick by only pretending to have died to test his “not serious” offspring. “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?
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