It’s almost time to say goodbye to Logan Roy forever (Picture: Scott McDermott/Haute Living
With just a matter of days to go before the final season of Succession is due to begin, Logan Roy star Brian Cox is giving us the smallest insight as to where his no-nonsense character winds up.
The award-winning HBO drama from Jesse Armstrong is coming to a close with series four, and no doubt there will be even more backstabbing and nastiness from the Roys as the future of Waystar RoyCo remains in jeopardy.
So as the popular show prepares to end, what does Cox really make of Logan?
‘Logan’s not that bad,’ he insists. ‘I actually have a lot of sympathy for Logan… It’s always said that a cynic is a disillusioned romantic.
‘I think that’s true and the root of who Logan was as a young man. He sees that life doesn’t operate the way one would like it to, but in a more mercenary way.
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Brian Cox doesn’t think Logan is that bad… (Picture: Scott McDermott/Haute Living)
‘His children, however, don’t realise that if they don’t work, that if they don’t commit some kind of integrity to what they do, that they can’t succeed, and he can’t do anything about that. It’s just the nature of the beast.’
Cox uses the word ‘stuck’ to describe his thoughts on Logan’s current place in the world.
‘I think that’s his tragedy, in a way,’ he adds to Haute Living. ‘There’s a certain misanthropy there, and we haven’t been given clues as to where that misanthropy comes from.
‘That’s why the writers are so gifted, because they don’t dwell on that. They know that human nature is much more complicated. And so, Logan is full of little clues, but there’s not a resolution to him because the writers don’t want that resolution.’
Cox has described Logan as being ‘stuck’ as he gives his verdict on his current standing (Picture: HBO)
Armstrong previously shared his decision to end Succession after season four, admitting that many different scenarios were discussed behind the scenes.
He told New Yorker magazine: ‘I got together with a few of my fellow-writers before we started the writing of season four, in about November, December, 2021, and I sort of said, “Look, I think this maybe should be it. But what do you think?”
‘And we played out various scenarios: We could do a couple of short seasons, or two more seasons. Or we could go on for ages and turn the show into something rather different, and be a more rangy, freewheeling kind of fun show, where there would be good weeks and bad weeks.
‘Or we could do something a bit more muscular and complete and go out sort of strong. And that was definitely always my preference. I went into the writing room for season four sort of saying, “I think this is what we’re doing, but let’s also keep it open.”
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He added: ‘I feel deeply conflicted. I quite enjoy this period when we’re editing – where the whole season is there – but we haven’t put it out yet. I like the interregnum.
‘And I also quite liked the period when my close collaborators and I knew that this was probably it, or this was it, but hadn’t had to face up to it in the world.’
Succession season four begins on March 26 on HBO Max.
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It’s almost time to say goodbye to Logan Roy.