Scottish actor Brian Cox on Sunday gave his support to the screenwriters on strike in Hollywood, who, he underlined, are “very clearly the primary forces” of the creations and as such should “be rewarded at their fair value” .
Hollywood screenwriters went on strike in May over failed talks with major studios and platforms over a pay hike.
Brian Cox, who complained about the premature end of his tyrannical character Logan Roy in the hit HBO series Succession, called its British creator, Jesse Armstrong, on the BBC a “genius”.
Succession is a scathing chronicle about a sibling of ultra-rich in struggle for the empire of their patriarch, Logan Roy, inspired among others by the Australian-American Rupert Murdoch and played by Brian Cox. The series has established itself as a critical and popular success despite the characters, each more detestable than the other. On the BBC, Brian Cox returned to the end of the series: "I deduce from it - I have not seen the end - that my character was right because he knew this was all going to happen".