Succession star Sarah Snook recently opened up about what Brian Cox was like on the set of the series while playing the cut-throat media baron Logan Roy. It turns out that even when Cox was not in character as the menacing media baron, he was still channeling the character in between takes and he would have “thunderous” outbursts on set.
While speaking to Mariella Frostrup on Times Radio, Snook laughed and said: “He has a habit of sometimes going into a false — or could it be real, who knows? — diabetic rage, where he’ll go [growl] all of a sudden.”
She went on to say: “I think part of it’s a little of trying to just jolt the energy of the set and rustle a few feathers, get it going and moving faster. The quality of his voice can be very terrifying sometimes, for sure. Thunderous.”
Cox does suffer from type 2 diabetes and his co-star Kieran Culkin has joked in the past that he would “scream” if he was hungry on set. Cox has admitted to these hangry outbursts, saying: “Well, yeah I do get hangry because I’m diabetic.”
Snook isn’t the only Succession actress to talk about how intimidating Cox can be. Co-star Justine Lupe has said the actor was capable of being “incredibly scary,” while J Smith-Cameron, has said that he was sometimes “terrifying” to work with.
Justine Lupe previously shared: “Brian has moments of being incredibly intimidating on and off camera. He’s got a power to him as a person and I think he knows that about himself. That being said, he’s also one of the more kind people that I’ve interacted with on set … He was always so supportive and sweet.”
Cox sounds like a lovely individual, as long as he’s eaten.
