Brian Cox was satisfied by the ending of Succession season 4 (Picture: SIPA USA)
Succession star Brian Cox has shared his thoughts on the HBO drama’s ending and, honestly, his response is perfect.
It was revealed in February that creator Jesse Armstrong had decided to end the juggernaut show after its upcoming fourth season, explaining: ‘The end has always been kind of present in my mind.’
While Cousin Greg actor Nicholas Braun has confessed he was ‘bummed’ and Shiv Roy star Sarah Snook admitted she was ‘upset’ she didn’t know Succession was drawing to a close on season 4, Brian, 76, has a rather different take.
‘I felt nothing when I played the last scene [on Succession]. Nothing! It was the last scene, finito. Logan absolutely gets what he needs. That’s the great thing about the show. He gets peace, which is good.
‘American series live well past their sellout date: This one won’t do that. HBO would love us to go for as long as Game of Thrones, but thank God it won’t happen.
He continued to Variety: ‘I would find it hard-going to be saying “f**k off” to people for the next 10 years, although it’s the nicest thing to say to someone. You can actually say how you feel.’
Brian Cox plays the patriarch Logan Roy in the backstabbing drama (Picture: HBO)
Will the Roy children successfully topple their father’s empire (Picture: HBO)
The third season of Succession finally saw siblings Shiv (Snook), Roman (Kieran Culkin) and Kendall (Jeremy Strong) team up and try to take over the family business.
The trio decided to double-cross their father Logan (Cox) and take over the family empire without his knowledge, but, unfortunately for them, the mogul was one step ahead.
Logan had been tipped off by Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen) about their plot and instead made the savage decision to cut them out of the company entirely.
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Brian said he felt ‘nothing’ during the final scene for Succession (Picture: Getty Images)
Brian previously said of his character, the power-hungry Logan, that he’s ‘not that bad,’ adding that he ‘actually has a lot of sympathy’ for him.
‘It’s always said that a cynic is a disillusioned romantic,’ he added.
Brian explained to Haute Living: ‘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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‘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.’
Succession returns to HBO Max in the US on March 26 and will land on Sky Atlantic and NOW in the UK on 27 March.
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