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    Brian Cox thinks he was killed off "too early" on 'Succession'

    The 78-year-old actor didn't mind his alter ego, patriarch Logan Roy didn't live to see out the entire four season run of the media drama but he wishes he'd clung on for longer than the first three episodes of the final season


    Speaking at the Oxford Union, he praised the show's ending and said: "My only caveat to that, though I think I was happy to be killed off, I thought it was one episode too early because then you had more of those boring kids".

    Brian thinks creator Jesse Armstrong did the right thing in understanding that "clearly less is better than more", and ended the programme before it outstayed its welcome.

    The veteran actor was a particular fan of the work of his co-star Kieran Culkin, who played his son Roman Roy for having maintained "that child actors' enthusiasm, that child actors' joy" over the years.

    He added: "It would be terrible to curtail that...

    "The first series he would freak out if he had three alts (alternative lines), by the last series he was doing five pages of alts... it was wonderful to watch."

    Meanwhile, after president-elect Donald Trump recently voiced his plan to appoint actors and supporters Jon Voight, Sylvester Stallone and Mel Gibson as "Hollywood ambassadors", Brian criticised the decision.

    He branded Stallone a "f****** idiot" and dismissed Voight as "right of Attila the Hun" and bemoaned the Trump administration as being a representation of a "fierce patriarchy".

    He added: "Personally [I] long for a matriarchy because the patriarchy just doesn't work and hasn't worked for years".

    And of the 'Apprentice' star's return to office, he said: "If that man does become President it means a lot of Americans are in a very bad way".

    Despite Logan being killed off in 'Succession', Brian recently refused to rule out reprising the role for a 'Succession' movie if the script was good enough.

    He told Variety: "We'll see. If it's good enough and Jesse Armstrong wants to do it, I might do it."

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