Brian Cox says Succession creator Jesse Armstrong was a “gentleman” to salute him during his acceptance speech at Sunday night’s Emmy Awards.
The celebrated HBO drama won the top drama prize, and Armstrong praised the show’s cast, creatives and crew then lauded Cox, “who the show was revolved around whether he was in it or not.”
Later at the HBO | Max Emmy afterparty at San Vicente Bungalows, Cox tells me he was “touched” by Armstrong singling him out. “Jesse’s a gentleman in an industry where there aren’t many of those,” he says.
Cox adds that the entire team deserved the praise. ”All of them. The drama series win belongs to each and every one of them.”
The acclaimed actor says he knew Succession would become a “cultural landmark” from the time he read Armstrong’s first script. “I was in no doubt that it would become a benchmark.
The celebrated HBO drama won the top drama prize, and Armstrong praised the show’s cast, creatives and crew then lauded Cox, “who the show was revolved around whether he was in it or not.”
Later at the HBO | Max Emmy afterparty at San Vicente Bungalows, Cox tells me he was “touched” by Armstrong singling him out. “Jesse’s a gentleman in an industry where there aren’t many of those,” he says.
Cox adds that the entire team deserved the praise. ”All of them. The drama series win belongs to each and every one of them.”
The acclaimed actor says he knew Succession would become a “cultural landmark” from the time he read Armstrong’s first script. “I was in no doubt that it would become a benchmark.
- 1/16/2024
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
Brian Cox became a familiar face all over the world thanks to playing Logan Roy in the hit HBO series “Succession,” but there have been some consequences. The actor is a veteran with some 240 credits to his name, but it is “Succession” that made him a household name.
“I’ve lost my anonymity and I’ve realized that that was what was important to me. I haven’t ever experienced anything like this,” Cox told The Guardian. “I mean, you ask for success in your work, and you get it, and then you have to deal with the consequences. I’ve always valued my privacy, but that’s gone. I’ve been very lucky that I’ve had it for so long. You know, I’ve been doing this for over 60 years. And finally it’s over.”
Cox also turned down roles in “Game of Thrones” and the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise.
“I’ve lost my anonymity and I’ve realized that that was what was important to me. I haven’t ever experienced anything like this,” Cox told The Guardian. “I mean, you ask for success in your work, and you get it, and then you have to deal with the consequences. I’ve always valued my privacy, but that’s gone. I’ve been very lucky that I’ve had it for so long. You know, I’ve been doing this for over 60 years. And finally it’s over.”
Cox also turned down roles in “Game of Thrones” and the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise.
- 10/18/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The Last Duel Review — The Last Duel (2021) Film Review, a movie directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer, Ben Affleck, Harriet Walter, Alex Lawther, Marton Csokas, William Houston, Oliver Cotton, Nathaniel Parker, Tallulah Haddon, Bryony Hannah, Ian Pirie, Daniel Horn and Michael McElhatton. Director Ridley Scott makes his [...]
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Continue reading: Film Review: The Last Duel (2021): Ridley Scott’s New Film Is A Well Acted Drama With Plenty of Intrigue...
- 10/16/2021
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
It has been a long time coming… 437 days to be exact, since HeyUGuys were last on a red carpet. This evening, with social distancing in place at the Honourable Artillery Company in East London, Hideaway Cinema put on quite a show with a special screening of Wonder Woman 1984. This is the first in a series of screenings in amazing locations, and we were on the red carpet to welcome those attending. Our red carpeteers for this evening were Colin Hart and Ethan Hart.
It was a wonderful privilege to be back on a red carpet, we’re so pleased to be able to share these interviews with you.
In Wonder Woman 1984 Gal Gadot and Patty Jenkins return for their latest Dceu adventure, and the sequel sees the return of Chris Pine as Steve Trevor, Robin Wright, and Connie Nielsen as well as newcomers Pedro Pascal, Kristen Wiig, Lilly Aspell (Young Diana), Amr Waked,...
It was a wonderful privilege to be back on a red carpet, we’re so pleased to be able to share these interviews with you.
In Wonder Woman 1984 Gal Gadot and Patty Jenkins return for their latest Dceu adventure, and the sequel sees the return of Chris Pine as Steve Trevor, Robin Wright, and Connie Nielsen as well as newcomers Pedro Pascal, Kristen Wiig, Lilly Aspell (Young Diana), Amr Waked,...
- 5/20/2021
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The ‘alt-right’ actor turns in a capable performance in this somewhat oddball family reunion drama
There’s no point in a fictional family reunion where long-buried resentments don’t painfully but cathartically resurface – and maybe no point in such a family reunion in real life, either. Dictynna Hood’s flawed, interesting low-budget indie is a vehemently performed, slightly Shakespearean drama, set over a few days in a Dartmoor farmhouse – the title appears to be about the area’s standing stones, though there are reminiscences of a shivery childhood visit to Stonehenge.
Here, ageing matriarch and former hippy Marianne (Anna Calder-Marshall) and her testy husband Richard (Oliver Cotton) have summoned the extended clan for Marianne’s birthday because she is very ill, and possibly even dying. (“Here’s to the remission of sins and cancer!” runs one toast over the fractious dinner.)...
There’s no point in a fictional family reunion where long-buried resentments don’t painfully but cathartically resurface – and maybe no point in such a family reunion in real life, either. Dictynna Hood’s flawed, interesting low-budget indie is a vehemently performed, slightly Shakespearean drama, set over a few days in a Dartmoor farmhouse – the title appears to be about the area’s standing stones, though there are reminiscences of a shivery childhood visit to Stonehenge.
Here, ageing matriarch and former hippy Marianne (Anna Calder-Marshall) and her testy husband Richard (Oliver Cotton) have summoned the extended clan for Marianne’s birthday because she is very ill, and possibly even dying. (“Here’s to the remission of sins and cancer!” runs one toast over the fractious dinner.)...
- 12/8/2020
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
New films on Screenbase this week include thriller Long Time Coming and a new adaptation of Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood.
UK thriller Long Time Coming – North vs South recently, from writer-director Steven Nesbit and producers Benjamin Foottit and Mark Foligno, recently wrapped shooting.
Cast on the feature includes Bernard Hill, Steven Berkoff, Greta Scacchi, Keith Allen, Steve Evets, Elliot Tittensor, Charlotte Hope, Geoff Bell, Oliver Cotton, Brad Moore, Freema Agyeman and Sydney Wade.
The film focusses on the battle between a group of brutal northern hard men and their southern criminal enemies, during which two star-crossed young lovers from the rival families carry out an illicit affair.
Dylan Thomas adaptation
Principal photography on an adaptation of Under Milk Wood, starring Rhys Ifans, has begun in Wales.
Based on Dylan Thomas’s classic radio drama, the film stars Ifans as First Voice/Captain Cat, an old sea captain who dreams of his deceased crew members and lost...
UK thriller Long Time Coming – North vs South recently, from writer-director Steven Nesbit and producers Benjamin Foottit and Mark Foligno, recently wrapped shooting.
Cast on the feature includes Bernard Hill, Steven Berkoff, Greta Scacchi, Keith Allen, Steve Evets, Elliot Tittensor, Charlotte Hope, Geoff Bell, Oliver Cotton, Brad Moore, Freema Agyeman and Sydney Wade.
The film focusses on the battle between a group of brutal northern hard men and their southern criminal enemies, during which two star-crossed young lovers from the rival families carry out an illicit affair.
Dylan Thomas adaptation
Principal photography on an adaptation of Under Milk Wood, starring Rhys Ifans, has begun in Wales.
Based on Dylan Thomas’s classic radio drama, the film stars Ifans as First Voice/Captain Cat, an old sea captain who dreams of his deceased crew members and lost...
- 7/2/2014
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Elliot Tittensor, Charlotte Hope and Steven Berkoff among cast of ‘Romeo and Juliet’-style thriller.
Shoot has wrapped in Manchester and Leeds on UK thriller Long Time Coming – North vs South, from writer-director Steven Nesbit and producers Benjamin Foottit and Mark Foligno.
Cast on the feature includes Bernard Hill, Steven Berkoff, Greta Scacchi, Keith Allen, Steve Evets, Elliot Tittensor, Charlotte Hope, Geoff Bell, Oliver Cotton, Brad Moore, Freema Agyeman and Sydney Wade.
The film focusses on the battle between a group of brutal northern hard men and their southern criminal enemies, during which two star-crossed young lovers from the rival families carry out an illicit affair.
Former Screen Star of Tomorrow Tittensor (Spike Island, Shameless) and rising star Charlotte Hope (Testament of Youth, Game of Thrones) play the film’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ characters.
Budgeted at around $2m, the independently financed film is produced by Benjamin Foottit through his London-based production company North South Films, alongside...
Shoot has wrapped in Manchester and Leeds on UK thriller Long Time Coming – North vs South, from writer-director Steven Nesbit and producers Benjamin Foottit and Mark Foligno.
Cast on the feature includes Bernard Hill, Steven Berkoff, Greta Scacchi, Keith Allen, Steve Evets, Elliot Tittensor, Charlotte Hope, Geoff Bell, Oliver Cotton, Brad Moore, Freema Agyeman and Sydney Wade.
The film focusses on the battle between a group of brutal northern hard men and their southern criminal enemies, during which two star-crossed young lovers from the rival families carry out an illicit affair.
Former Screen Star of Tomorrow Tittensor (Spike Island, Shameless) and rising star Charlotte Hope (Testament of Youth, Game of Thrones) play the film’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ characters.
Budgeted at around $2m, the independently financed film is produced by Benjamin Foottit through his London-based production company North South Films, alongside...
- 7/1/2014
- by [email protected] (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Elliot Tittensor, Charlotte Hope and Steven Berkoff among cast of ‘Romeo and Juliet’-style thriller.
Shoot has wrapped in Manchester and Leeds on UK thriller Long Time Coming – North vs South, from writer-director Steven Nesbit and producers Benjamin Foottit and Mark Foligno.
Cast on the feature includes Bernard Hill, Steven Berkoff, Greta Scacchi, Keith Allen, Steve Evets, Elliot Tittensor, Charlotte Hope, Geoff Bell, Oliver Cotton, Brad Moore, Freema Agyeman and Sydney Wade.
The film focusses on the battle between a group of brutal northern hard men and their southern criminal enemies, during which two star-crossed young lovers from the rival families carry out an illicit affair.
Former Screen Star of Tomorrow Tittensor (Spike Island, Shameless) and rising star Charlotte Hope (Testament of Youth, Game of Thrones) play the film’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ characters.
Budgeted at around $2m, the independently financed film is produced by Benjamin Foottit through his London-based production company North South Films, alongside...
Shoot has wrapped in Manchester and Leeds on UK thriller Long Time Coming – North vs South, from writer-director Steven Nesbit and producers Benjamin Foottit and Mark Foligno.
Cast on the feature includes Bernard Hill, Steven Berkoff, Greta Scacchi, Keith Allen, Steve Evets, Elliot Tittensor, Charlotte Hope, Geoff Bell, Oliver Cotton, Brad Moore, Freema Agyeman and Sydney Wade.
The film focusses on the battle between a group of brutal northern hard men and their southern criminal enemies, during which two star-crossed young lovers from the rival families carry out an illicit affair.
Former Screen Star of Tomorrow Tittensor (Spike Island, Shameless) and rising star Charlotte Hope (Testament of Youth, Game of Thrones) play the film’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ characters.
Budgeted at around $2m, the independently financed film is produced by Benjamin Foottit through his London-based production company North South Films, alongside...
- 7/1/2014
- by [email protected] (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
UK/India co-production Tooting Broadway is having its world premiere tomorrow night at the 2012 London Indian Film Festival.
Tooting Broadway is an urban crime drama, whose South London locationlends a gritty feel to a fast paced story that highlights a rarely seen gang culture.
24 hoursbefore the Tamil protests outside the Houses of Parliament, Arun (Nav Sidhu) returns home from a long absence,to stop his younger brother Ruthi (Kabelan Verlkumar) from commiting a crime that could ruin his life. Arun is granteda day by his mysterious employer, Marcus (Oliver Cotton) to talk Ruthi round.
Once back hemeets an old flame, Kate (Elizabeth Henstridge) who is struggling with a big decision herself, while Arun’s friendship with gang leader, Karuna (San Shella) threatens to suck him back into the world he left behind. Thepolitical tension provides the backdrop for Arun’s need to forge a life awayfrom his past misdeeds versus his obligations to his family,...
Tooting Broadway is an urban crime drama, whose South London locationlends a gritty feel to a fast paced story that highlights a rarely seen gang culture.
24 hoursbefore the Tamil protests outside the Houses of Parliament, Arun (Nav Sidhu) returns home from a long absence,to stop his younger brother Ruthi (Kabelan Verlkumar) from commiting a crime that could ruin his life. Arun is granteda day by his mysterious employer, Marcus (Oliver Cotton) to talk Ruthi round.
Once back hemeets an old flame, Kate (Elizabeth Henstridge) who is struggling with a big decision herself, while Arun’s friendship with gang leader, Karuna (San Shella) threatens to suck him back into the world he left behind. Thepolitical tension provides the backdrop for Arun’s need to forge a life awayfrom his past misdeeds versus his obligations to his family,...
- 6/21/2012
- by Maahin
- Nerdly
The 3rd edition of the London Indian Film Festival (June 20 – July 3) features World Premieres of two provocative British films, Tooting Broadway (June 22) and Arjun & Alison (June 30) with the entire cast and crew of both films attending.
Tooting Broadway is a racy urban flick about Tamil and Caribbean gang rivalries set in South London and the conflicts within the central character torn between his loyalty to his increasingly dangerous mates and the need to escape to a better life. The fast paced story features a star-making turn from Elizabeth Henstridge, Britain’s latest export to Hollywood.
Director Devanand Shanmugam says: “Tooting Broadway was born when Producer Joshua Clement pitched his idea to me over one of our creative brainstorming meetings. He suggested that we make a film about the Tamils living in the UK, which is connected to our Tamil backgrounds and it was a good idea because no British or...
Tooting Broadway is a racy urban flick about Tamil and Caribbean gang rivalries set in South London and the conflicts within the central character torn between his loyalty to his increasingly dangerous mates and the need to escape to a better life. The fast paced story features a star-making turn from Elizabeth Henstridge, Britain’s latest export to Hollywood.
Director Devanand Shanmugam says: “Tooting Broadway was born when Producer Joshua Clement pitched his idea to me over one of our creative brainstorming meetings. He suggested that we make a film about the Tamils living in the UK, which is connected to our Tamil backgrounds and it was a good idea because no British or...
- 6/20/2012
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
John Malkovich in Wet Weather Cover at the Royal Court, 1995
It was back when I was starting out in the early 90s. There was a rehearsed reading of Oliver Cotton's play Wet Weather Cover upstairs in a small theatre at the Royal Court in London. To be honest, the only thing that prompted me to go along was the fact that John Malkovich was reading one of the parts. During the play, there was just a moment when the character he was playing gets a phone call, which I thought was symbolic and instructive.
I know from my own experience as an actor that you have to make a decision very quickly about what, fully, you're going to do when you get to a phone conversation, especially if you're reading it cold. What Malkovich did was the dreaded finger phone configuration - the L shape with the thumb and little finger.
It was back when I was starting out in the early 90s. There was a rehearsed reading of Oliver Cotton's play Wet Weather Cover upstairs in a small theatre at the Royal Court in London. To be honest, the only thing that prompted me to go along was the fact that John Malkovich was reading one of the parts. During the play, there was just a moment when the character he was playing gets a phone call, which I thought was symbolic and instructive.
I know from my own experience as an actor that you have to make a decision very quickly about what, fully, you're going to do when you get to a phone conversation, especially if you're reading it cold. What Malkovich did was the dreaded finger phone configuration - the L shape with the thumb and little finger.
- 6/4/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Arts, London
Film locations often make for surprisingly good drama. Charles Wood's Veterans took us behind the scenes of The Charge of the Light Brigade. Here, Oliver Cotton's witty and perceptive play uses the shooting of a costume epic in rain-drenched Spain to explore British and American attitudes to life, art and the waiting game of making movies.
Cotton, who clearly knows the territory, creates a series of dramatic reversals. Two actors, the American Brad and English Stuart, are cooped up in a trailer waiting to shoot a scene in a film about Cortés's conquest of Mexico. But it is the seemingly brash Brad who can quote reams of Marlowe, while Stuart is momentarily stumped when asked to recite Shakespeare. And while Stuart attacks the status-consciousness of American actors and the imperialist pretensions of Hollywood, it is Brad who turns out to be made of the right stuff.
Film locations often make for surprisingly good drama. Charles Wood's Veterans took us behind the scenes of The Charge of the Light Brigade. Here, Oliver Cotton's witty and perceptive play uses the shooting of a costume epic in rain-drenched Spain to explore British and American attitudes to life, art and the waiting game of making movies.
Cotton, who clearly knows the territory, creates a series of dramatic reversals. Two actors, the American Brad and English Stuart, are cooped up in a trailer waiting to shoot a scene in a film about Cortés's conquest of Mexico. But it is the seemingly brash Brad who can quote reams of Marlowe, while Stuart is momentarily stumped when asked to recite Shakespeare. And while Stuart attacks the status-consciousness of American actors and the imperialist pretensions of Hollywood, it is Brad who turns out to be made of the right stuff.
- 4/14/2010
- by Michael Billington
- The Guardian - Film News
We have now added a further three images from Constantin Films' "Pope Joan." This can be first seen in Germany first on Octobert 29th. Areas like Belgium and the Netherlands get it on November 18th and 19th. Johanna Wokalek, John Goodman, David Wenham, Ian Glen, Anatole Taubman, Oliver Cotton, Branko Tomovic, Claudia Michelsen, Giorgio Lupano and Ian Gelder star. Sönke Wortmann directs as well as adapting the screenplay alongside Heinrich Hadding based on the novel by Donna Wooolfolk Cross. See all the images here!
- 4/11/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
We have two images in from Constantin Films' "Pope Joan" which apparently Summit Entertainment is releasing in the U.S. at some point, we don't know when. The film opens in Germany first on Octobert 29th, followed by Belgium and the Netherlands on November 18th and 19th. Johanna Wokalek, John Goodman, David Wenham, Ian Glen, Anatole Taubman, Oliver Cotton, Branko Tomovic, Claudia Michelsen, Giorgio Lupano and Ian Gelder star. Sönke Wortmann directs as well as adapting the screenplay alongside Heinrich Hadding based on the novel by Donna Wooolfolk Cross. See all the images here! ...
- 4/11/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
We have now added a further three images from Constantin Films' "Pope Joan." This can be first seen in Germany first on Octobert 29th. Areas like Belgium and the Netherlands get it on November 18th and 19th. Johanna Wokalek, John Goodman, David Wenham, Ian Glen, Anatole Taubman, Oliver Cotton, Branko Tomovic, Claudia Michelsen, Giorgio Lupano and Ian Gelder star. Sönke Wortmann directs as well as adapting the screenplay alongside Heinrich Hadding based on the novel by Donna Wooolfolk Cross.
- 4/11/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
We have two images in from Constantin Films' "Pope Joan" which apparently Summit Entertainment is releasing in the U.S. at some point, we don't know when. The film opens in Germany first on Octobert 29th, followed by Belgium and the Netherlands on November 18th and 19th. Johanna Wokalek, John Goodman, David Wenham, Ian Glen, Anatole Taubman, Oliver Cotton, Branko Tomovic, Claudia Michelsen, Giorgio Lupano and Ian Gelder star. Sönke Wortmann directs as well as adapting the screenplay alongside Heinrich Hadding based on the novel by Donna Wooolfolk Cross...
- 4/11/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
We have now added a further three images from Constantin Films' "Pope Joan." This can be first seen in Germany first on Octobert 29th. Areas like Belgium and the Netherlands get it on November 18th and 19th. Johanna Wokalek, John Goodman, David Wenham, Ian Glen, Anatole Taubman, Oliver Cotton, Branko Tomovic, Claudia Michelsen, Giorgio Lupano and Ian Gelder star. Sönke Wortmann directs as well as adapting the screenplay alongside Heinrich Hadding based on the novel by Donna Wooolfolk Cross.
- 4/11/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
We have two images in from Constantin Films' "Pope Joan" which apparently Summit Entertainment is releasing in the U.S. at some point, we don't know when. The film opens in Germany first on Octobert 29th, followed by Belgium and the Netherlands on November 18th and 19th. Johanna Wokalek, John Goodman, David Wenham, Ian Glen, Anatole Taubman, Oliver Cotton, Branko Tomovic, Claudia Michelsen, Giorgio Lupano and Ian Gelder star. Sönke Wortmann directs as well as adapting the screenplay alongside Heinrich Hadding based on the novel by Donna Wooolfolk Cross...
- 4/11/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Year: 1999
Release date: 1999
Director: Graham Baker
Writer: Mark Leahy
IMDb: link
Amazon: link
Trailer: link
Review by: agentorange
Rating: 5.5 out of 10
Are you ready to play 6 degrees of Christopher Lambert?
Just as Cyborg took the Pa genre to new heights of blockbuster silliness 10 years earlier, so too was Graham Baker's Beowulf designed as a treat for genre fans looking to chow down on some pop-corny post apocalyptic fun times at the turn of the new millennium. Basically, this version of Beowulf is a mindless techno-rock monster movie that owes little to its literary source material and more to earlier 90s vidja game movies like Paul Anderson's Mortal Combat (which also starred Chris Lambert... that's 1). However, it's also a film that looks waaay too bloody cool for me to hate it like I know I should and with the added bonus of Rhona Mitra flaunting her womanly wares like it's 1999, well,...
Release date: 1999
Director: Graham Baker
Writer: Mark Leahy
IMDb: link
Amazon: link
Trailer: link
Review by: agentorange
Rating: 5.5 out of 10
Are you ready to play 6 degrees of Christopher Lambert?
Just as Cyborg took the Pa genre to new heights of blockbuster silliness 10 years earlier, so too was Graham Baker's Beowulf designed as a treat for genre fans looking to chow down on some pop-corny post apocalyptic fun times at the turn of the new millennium. Basically, this version of Beowulf is a mindless techno-rock monster movie that owes little to its literary source material and more to earlier 90s vidja game movies like Paul Anderson's Mortal Combat (which also starred Chris Lambert... that's 1). However, it's also a film that looks waaay too bloody cool for me to hate it like I know I should and with the added bonus of Rhona Mitra flaunting her womanly wares like it's 1999, well,...
- 12/2/2008
- QuietEarth.us
A cast of respected British actors will play Margaret Thatcher's allies and deserters in an upcoming BBC Two drama charting her political downfall. Ian McDiarmid (Star Wars) has been cast as her loyal husband Denis, James Fox (A Passage To India) as foreign policy advisor Charles Powell and Robert Hardy (All Creatures Great and Small) as Willie Whitelaw. Others appearing include Philip Jackson (Poirot) as chief press secretary Bernard Ingham, Kevin McNally (Pirates Of The Caribbean) as Ken Clarke and Oliver Cotton (The Commander) as Michael Heseltine. (more)...
- 7/23/2008
- by By Dave West
- Digital Spy
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