He’s full of Sh*t

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Playing former President Donald Trump is less interesting to Brian Cox.

Following last Sunday’s terrifying Succession twist, Cox spent most of the week taking a media victory lap to discuss his five-year run playing media mogul and horrible parent Logan Roy. While he took every opportunity to praise Jesse Armstrongs writing and explain the lengths he went to to keep the twist a secret, the outspoken actor also found time to take a few shots at Trump.

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In an interview with Deadline, Cox expressed his thoughts about the similarities between Roy and Trump. While Succession proved that Cox can play an aging right-wing demagogue as well as anyone, he said he doesn’t find Trump nearly as interesting as Roy. The Scottish actor explained why he wouldn’t be interested in playing Trump if given the chance.

You know, someone said, do you want to play Donald Trump, Cox recalled. And I said, no. Because I think it’s a bad script, the Donald Trump script. But then I look at Donald Trump, and I think, God, he’s gone. He’s just a lost individual, and he’s full of bullshit, and the reason he’s full of bullshit is because he’s an abused child. He really is an abused child, Donald Trump. A tragic figure.

But while Cox won’t be playing the impeached former president anytime soon, he explained that his enthusiasm for playing characters he finds morally and politically repugnant hasn’t diminished.

Although most of these people are very right-wing is repellant, ironically, from the point of view of the actors, when the actor gets into the skin of these people, you begin to understand where they come from, he said.

Passing on the hypothetical opportunity to play Trump shouldn’t set Coxs career back too much, as he has a busy schedule of projects lined up now that his Succession commitments are over. He plans to return to the London stage later this year in a West End revival of Eugene ONeils Long Days Journey Into Night and is set to make his feature directorial debut with the upcoming Scottish drama Glenrothan.

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