The actor has railed against people who are like his character in the series.
«He’s crazy, they should put him in an insane asylum and he should receive care and ‘electroshock’ treatment to recover his brain, because he’s no longer there, he’s gone. He’s a fucking idiot,» Cox says vehemently in an interview granted during his visit to Madrid to present the beginning of the end of the series. «The rich have marginalized themselves, they’re no longer in touch with the world,» he assures.
He has appointed men of power such as Donald Trump or Elon Musk.
The Briton also took the opportunity to point out other names of great tycoons, in addition to the former president of the United States. «Elon Musk may hide under the fact that he’s autistic, but he’s not doing autism any favors. I think he’s being stupid, and that’s not being autistic, it’s just stupidity. The way he’s handling the Twitter thing and all that,» the interpreter criticizes. «Power is the manifestation of money,» he says.
It also values the work of figures in the sphere of power.
At the same time, Cox qualifies that some wealthy people have been able to adapt and do things right. «Bill Gates, in many ways, has used it incredibly well. His sense of the world is pretty good. He has his own problems, his own personal and domestic problems, which don’t interest me. But what he’s done, as I see it, is something I can understand, it’s positive,» praises the veteran actor.
The rich are out of touch with the real world
Cox goes on to reference the exploitative issues faced by workers at companies like Amazon or Starbucks. «They make a fortune. Of course it’s a person’s vision that makes it, and I don’t want to discredit any of that, having a certain vision and making it. But it’s the sense of reality, the sense of knowing where you are in the world. Unfortunately that gets lost in certain cases. Not in everybody, but in some. That’s what our series is about too,» he says.
The actor has given a talk at the Spanish Film Academy.
During his visit to Spain, Cox gave a talk at the headquarters of the Film Academy in Madrid, where he pointed out that cinema is now only image, leaving aside the text. A reflection that he expands on by comparing the cinema of the 1930s with that of today. «Image and text were in balance. You see films like all those Capra films and there is a sense that text and vision go hand in hand. Even in John Ford’s as well. I think that the Marvel family, and it’s understandable…. These stories work best when they are allegorical and we can relate them to our lives,» he suggests.
Differentiates films by their balance
«That’s why I like »X-Men 2» so much. It’s a great example of that because it’s Bryan Singer talking about his own experience of being gay in a world where it’s more acceptable than it was before. He writes about that and it’s an allegory for what the X-Men were, people who were marginalized from the rest of the world. That works, it’s very well written,» he celebrates, citing the film in which he gave life to the villain William Stryker.
The last season of »Succession» is in the middle of broadcasting.
The first episode of the fourth season of »Succession» premiered on HBO Max last Monday, March 27. Along with Cox, the cast includes Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook, Kieran Culkin, Alan Ruck, Matthew Macfadyen and Nicholas Braun, among others. The multi-award-winning series is the brainchild of Jesse Armstrong, with Will Ferrell and Adam McKay as executive producers.
