Sarah Snook said in an interview with Times Radio that her Succession co-star Brian Cox had a tendency to have outbursts on set due to type 2 diabetes. Snook, who recently won an Emmy for her role as Shiv Roy in the final season of Succession, said Cox’s voice can “sometimes be scary” in these moments of exasperation.
“He has a habit of lying sometimes — or who knows if it’s true?” — Diabetic Rage,” Snook said. “I think part of it is just a little attempt to shake up the energy on the set, to get the feathers buzzing and moving faster. The quality of his voice can be quite frightening at times. . The thunder is amazing.”
Snook isn’t the first Succession cast member to bring up Cox’s on-set abuse. Kieran Culkin once said in a video interview with Esquire that Cox can have screaming fits much like his character Logan Roy, but his tone is clearly very different.
“It was screaming, both screaming,” Culkin said. “But with Logan it’s scary and with Brian it’s hilarious because there’s no real weight behind it. He gets annoyed and yells something and everyone just giggles. It’s empty and I’m impatient.”
Cox himself once admitted on ITV’s This Morning when Culkin’s comments came up: “Yes, I’m diabetic and it makes me hungry.”
As for Snoke, he told Times Radio that while making Succession he became concerned that his career would be locked into playing a character similar to Shiv.
“I think there’s a fear that once you’re known internationally for a certain role, you’re going to be limited as an actor to that role,” Snook said. “A lot of the stuff that came in during filming was of the nature of Shiv. For me personally, it was so far removed from who I am as a person, and I didn’t want to play myself. I wanted to be able to stretch out and say there’s a little bit more room here.”
Snook said she almost turned down the role of “Succession” because she was initially worried that the role of Shiv “wasn’t as interesting as I wanted it to be.”
“She was unfamiliar enough to me that I felt like she could bring something great to a role that I thought was interesting enough that I wanted to play it,” Snook said. “I didn’t know if I was going to be a prop because I was the only young woman in the cast at the time, and they wanted to make me into a glorified version of myself, like a female character could be. , it felt like it was kind of forced upon me,” side. I was afraid things would get locked up because I’m not interested in playing a role like that. ”
To read more of Snook’s interview, visit the Times website.
