Succession he did the unthinkable in his final season. Early in the third episode of the fourth season, the series killed off Logan Roy. Of course, the actual “succession” had to happen eventually if the popular people hbo drama was going to live up to its name. Still, Brian Cox—the actor who played Logan Roy for the last five years—was arguably the best performer and the driving force of the show. Since his departure, his children, and depending on who you ask, the series as a whole, have been a bit lost.
In an interview with BBC before Successionis big series finale this weekend, Cox almost agreed that it may not have been the right thing to do. “I was fine with it ultimately, but I felt a bit rejected,” he said, according to Variety. “You know, I kind of felt like, oh, all the work I’ve done and I’m finally going to, you know, end up like an ear on the carpet of an airplane.” Cox also added that it was probably a bit “too early” in the season to make such a move. However, Logan Roy’s death that occurred already in Episode Three definitely shocked audiences, unlike King Viserys long drawn out death on HBO dragon house.
Cox’s death also occurs off-screen, as told by other characters on the show such as Tom (Matthew Macfadyen), Frank (Peter Friedman), Karl (David Rasche) and Karolina (Dagmara Dominczyk). The show’s main siblings, Kendall (jeremy strong), Roman (kieran culkin), and Shiv (Sarah Snook), all hear the news and react to a cell phone call at Connor’s (Alan Ruck) wedding. Still, Cox maintains that it was done “in a pretty brilliant way.”
He also flirted with the idea that it was all fake. “I still believe this, maybe Logan isn’t dead,” Cox quipped. “This could be part of an elaborate ruse to find out. Well, if you think about it, from Logan’s point of view, he has to figure out, how are his children going to behave when he dies, what happens then? And the only way to do that is to fake his death and, in fact, at some distant point he is watching the chaos that follows.”
Wait, Logan could have faked his own death?! And you’re saying this a week before the end?! Don’t excite me like that! When asked if he was serious, Cox replied, “No… I’m just saying it could have been an assumption.” Yes and me could he just had a heart attack because of it.
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Josh Rosenberg is an assistant editor at Esquire and maintains a steady diet of one movie a day. Previous work of his can be found on Spin, CBR and on his personal blog at Roseandblog.com.
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