Brian Coxis dishing out some fictional fatherly advice for hisSuccessioncostarJeremy Strong.
“Oh, it’s f—ing annoying,” Cox toldTown & Country.
“Don’t get me going on it.”
‘Succession’ stars Brian Cox and Jeremy Strong.Randy Shropshire/Getty Images
“He feels if he went somewhere else he’d lose it,” Cox continued.
“But he won’t!
He’s f—ing gifted.
When you’ve got the gift, celebrate the gift.
Go back to your trailer and have a hit of marijuana, you know?”
“Everyone’s entitled to have their feelings,” Strong told the outlet.
There was no need to address that or do damage control…
I feel a lot of love for my siblings and my father on the show.
I do always respect them."
“It’d be one thing if I was working onFriendsor something,” he explained.
“I worked on aGuy Ritchiemovie, and I approached that very differently.”
Cox previously voiced his concerns about Strong’s all-or-nothing approach while visitingLate Night With Seth Meyersin December 2021.
“I worry about what it does to him,” he said at the time.
“Because you’re dealing with all of this material every day.
you might’t live in it.
Eventually, you get worn out.”
He was also among those interviewed in Strong’scontroversialNew Yorkerprofilethat was published the same month.
“It’s the cost to himself that worries me,” Cox said.
Speaking withGQ, Strong said that he doesn’t plan on changing up his process anytime soon.
“I’m still going to do whatever it takes to serve whatever it is,” he said.
“Which is not to say that that is the same thing as riding roughshod over other people.
It has to do with autonomous concentration.
It’s a very solitary thing.
