Succession's Brian Cox Took Matters Into His Own Hands To Prevent That Shocking Twist From Leaking

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WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD! Brian Cox is opening up more about the shocking twist during last night’s episode of Succession.

During an interview with Deadline, the 76-year-old actor revealed how he dealt with spoilers on the set of the show while filming the final season. Remember, SPOILERS ARE AHEAD…Only keep reading to find out more at your own risk! If you missed it, it was Brian‘s character, Logan Roy, who died on Sunday night’s (April 9) episode.

After he was given chest compressions following a collapse, it was revealed that he died shortly afterwards. In his post-episode interview with Deadline, Brian said that he showed up on set following filming that to throw everyone, especially script leakers, off. “On my funeral day, they were going to do a scene with me, a fake scene with me at the church, so, just to throw people off the scent,” he shared. Brian added that the crew was “running out of time, it was very difficult shooting in that church, and there was a lot of stuff that they had to cover, and the one thing they didn’t need to do was to have a fake scene with Logan Roy that wouldn’t even be in the show, anyway.” “So, I was on my way to do the scene, to go up to the church, I can’t remember where the church was, uptown, and what happened was, I was about to do that, and then they called me and said, you don’t need to come in now.” Brian then informed the crew that he would indeed be there, because he knew people would pick up on it if he wasn’t. “I said, I’m coming in.

They said, yeah, but we’re not doing the scene. I said, look, I’m coming in, because I know there’s going to be a whole lot of paparazzi there, and they’re going to be wondering what that funeral is.