Brian Cox has revealed why he turned down a notable position in Game Of Thrones.
In his memoir, Putting The Rabbit In The Hat, revealed two years in the past, the Succession star addressed plenty of close to misses in his profession, which included the chance to play Robert Baratheon within the HBO fantasy sequence.
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“I’m typically requested if I used to be provided a task in Game of Thrones – motive being that each different bugger was – and the reply is, sure, I used to be speculated to be a king referred to as Robert Baratheon,” he wrote.
The actor defined that he turned down the position as a result of the cash wasn’t nice and the character acquired killed off early.
“There’s at all times been a bent of American productions to deal with British actors in a different way from American actors,” he stated. “In different phrases, to get them low-cost.”
Cox additionally rejected the a part of the governor in Pirates Of The Caribbean, a task that ultimately went to Jonathan Pryce. Explaining why, he wrote: “It would have been a moneyspinner however, of all of the elements within the movie, it was essentially the most thankless.”
He additionally went on to take goal at Johnny Depp — who performed Captain Jack Sparrow within the Disney franchise — referring to him as “so overblown” and “so overrated.”
“I imply Edward Scissorhands! Let’s face it, for those who come on with fingers like that and pale, scarred-face make-up, you don’t must do something. And he didn’t. And subsequently, he’s completed even much less,” he wrote.
“But folks love him,” he continued, earlier than including: “They don’t love him a lot today after all.”
In May this yr, Cox described HBO’s Succession as his biggest work expertise ever in an emotional farewell publish on social media.
“We have now come to the top,” Cox wrote. “And what has been, in my profession, actually the best work expertise ever. The concord between crew and forged was really wonderful.
“It was on it’s option to turn into an awesome sequence however the Love and dedication from crew to forged and writers, made it memorable. I want to thank all of us within the making and creating of this present from the very backside of my coronary heart. Yours ever Brian Cox.”
