How do you go about telling the face of Logan Roy that he’s not going to be making it past episode three of Succession‘s final season?
Speaking in a behind-the-scenes video, creator Jesse Armstrong says he was “very nervous” when he met with Brian Cox to tell him the news.
“There’s lots of anxieties over whether it’s the right creative decision, and there’s anxieties that someone that I love working with and has been at the centre of the show will feel rejected on a human level for not being in it anymore when he’s been so central to the whole thing,” Armstrong says in the HBO clip above, before adding that Cox was a “total pro” about it. “He was professional and decent enough to make it a pretty good meeting, but a sad and significant one.”
“When you work with the genius of somebody like Jesse it’s always sad when that comes to an end, there’s no question about it, because you’ve had such great respect,” Cox says. “It’s going to be hard, when the public see he’s gone in episode three. I think they’re going to find it tough, because they’ve lived with Logan for so long, so they’re going to miss him.”
Well, missing him might be a little complicated because of how awful he was, but his death is certainly making huge waves.
