Brian Cox’s hatred of Method performing has gone so viral in current weeks that he parodied himself throughout a current go to to “The Tonight Show” to advertise the upcoming fourth and last season of HBO’s “Succession.” Host Jimmy Fallon requested Cox about all of the media consideration surrounding his hatred of Method performing, to which the actor responded, “Well you realize, Jimmy, I’ve been slightly harsh.”
“I’ve been slightly harsh on it,” Cox continued. “I’m sorry about that… the truth is, I’ve been attempting to set the file straight in a MasterClass collection of performing that I’ve been doing. Well really, I introduced a clip. I believe this extra eloquently explains my emotions about performing. Can we present it?”
Fallon threw to a clip of Brian Cox in a faux MasterClass video.
“Hi, I’m Brian Cox and that is my MasterClass on the craft of performing,” the actor stated. “Tip #1: Just fucking do it! Act! Say the fucking strains and don’t stumble upon the fucking furnishings.”
So a lot for being slightly harsh on Method performing. Cox has turn out to be one of many Method’s most vocal detractors, routinely talking out in interviews in opposition to his “Succession” co-star Jeremy Strong’s intense performing course of.
“It’s actually a cultural conflict,” Cox just lately informed Variety about Method performing. “I don’t put up with all that American shit. I’m sorry. All that form of ‘I believe, due to this fact I really feel.’ Just do the job. Don’t determine.”
In a “Town & Country” journal cowl story printed in February, Cox was requested about Strong’s Method performing and responded: “Oh, it’s fucking annoying. Don’t get me happening it.”
“He’s an excellent actor,” Cox added. “And the remainder of the ensemble is all okay with this. But realizing a personality and what the character does is simply a part of the talent set. He’s nonetheless that man, as a result of he feels if he went some other place he’d lose it. But he received’t! Strong is proficient. He’s fucking gifted. When you’ve obtained the reward, rejoice the reward. Go again to your trailer and have a success of marijuana, you realize?”
In an odd little bit of timing, Cox’s “Town & Country” interview printed on the identical day that Strong appeared on the quilt of GQ journal and straight addressed Cox’s criticisms. Strong stated he’s by no means spoken straight with Cox or any of his different “Succession” co-stars concerning the buzz his Method performing creates.
“Everyone’s entitled to have their emotions,” Strong stated. “I additionally assume Brian Cox, for instance, he’s earned the precise to say regardless of the fuck he needs. There was no want to handle that or do harm management… I really feel numerous love for my siblings and my father on the present. And it is sort of a household within the sense that — and I’m positive they’d say this, too — you don’t at all times just like the individuals that you simply love. I do at all times respect them.”
“Succession” returns for its fifth and last season on March 26.
