Succession star Kieran Culkin has explained the best way to calm down Brian Cox (Picture: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)
Succession star Kieran Culkin has shared that sugar hits helped calm down Brian Cox when he got a bit grumpy on set.
The fourth and final season of the black comedy-drama hit screens this week, but there’s been just as much talk about what’s been happening behind the scenes as well.
While Roy family patriarch Logan (played by Cox) is known for his fiery temper and ‘f*** off’ catchphrase, the actor playing the wildly wealthy media mogul has also had some tense moments out of character too.
However, Culkin, 40, who plays his ever-irreverent son Roman discovered a way to assist with what he labelled Cox’s ‘outbursts’.
Although he didn’t go into much detail about what happened during the incidents ‘because they will definitely be misinterpreted’, he did add it was ‘so funny to see him lose his s***’ when detailing what had happened across filming the four seasons in an interview with Esquire.
But after learning the best way to get his co-star, 76, to chill out, Culkin made sure to pass the message on.
It turns out the most effective method was simply a sugar boost.
Kieran plays Roman Roy in Succession (Picture: AP)
Advising a production assistant to keep a sandwich or a banana nearby, Cox would then apparently begrudgingly accept the offer of food, and then be fine soon after.
However, there might not have been many snacks on hand last week where not even the premiere of the show was enough to keep Cox in high spirits.
During the event he got a little annoyed with photographers and was seen and heard yelling on the red carpet because, as he later said, they couldn’t ‘get their f***ing s*** together’ when asking him to pose.
However, on a recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the Scottish actor also explained he was suffering from ‘Logan Roy disease’ and joked his wife was ‘nearly divorcing’ him because of it.
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It might also explain some of the back and forth between him and on-screen son Jeremy Strong, who plays Kendall.
In the past few years Cox has made it very clear he isn’t supportive of Strong’s approach to embracing method acting, branding it ‘annoying’ and ‘crap’.
Succession is available to watch on Sky and NOW, with new episodes released on Mondays.
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