Brian Cox is not holding back.
The outspoken legend, who turns 80 in June, is known to get pretty candid, and his latest interview, a piece published Friday in The Times, is no exception.
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Taking aim at former co-stars, Oscar nominees, and even those behind the camera, the Succession alum validated his brutal takes by saying he’s too old to care at this point.
“My wife [Nicole Ansari-Cox] keeps saying, ‘Brian, be careful. Brian, be careful.’ I think, ‘F— it, I don’t want to be careful any more! I’ll be 80 this year. F— it! I’m gonna say what I want to say,’” he told the outlet.
Commenting on Margot Robbie and her latest film, Wuthering Heights, Cox poked fun at her Australian accent and claimed she’s too pretty to play the role of Emily Brontë’s protagonist in the 19th-century romance novel.
“‘Keith Cliff! It’s me, Cathy!’” he imitates “in a cod Australian accent,” per The Times, to impersonate Robbie. “‘How ya doing, Keith? Awright?’ ‘Yeah, I’m awright!’”
Cox laughed, then added, “Margot Robbie is far too beautiful for that role. I mean, I think there should be something more of the Gypsy about her but it’s wrong of me to judge. It may be a brilliant film.”
As for others in his line of fire, he said Johnny Depp is “so overblown, so overrated,” and the reason Cox turned down the role of the governor in The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, which eventually went to Jonathan Pryce. He said his 25th Hour co-star Edward Norton was a “pain in the arse” and described Sir Ian McKellen’s acting style as “not to my taste.”
He also called Kevin Spacey a “stupid, stupid man” and director Quentin Tarantino “meretricious.”
“I like to honor the actor’s performance,” he said, offering his mindset as a director whose debut, Glenrothan, releases in the U.K. April 17. “With a Quentin Tarantino film, what you see is all Quentin Tarantino. That’s not me. I don’t want to do that.”
Cox said he prefers to be “more egalitarian than a lot of directors, the kind who call themselves visionaries.”
The American president and the “patriarchy” were also not off the table, with Cox claiming America “doesn’t like women” and “Trump doesn’t give a sh– about the people. He’s only interested in the oil [in Iran]. There’s just sheer f—-ing greed motivating him, nothing else. The idea he’s liberating people is a nonsense.”
There’s a lot to unpack.
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