Brian Cox has once again taken aim at fellow Hollywood figures, calling Quentin Tarantino “meretricious” in a new interview with The Times of London. The actor, promoting his directorial debut “Glenrothan,” criticised the director’s style, saying: “I’m more egalitarian than a lot of directors, the kind who call themselves visionaries. I like to honor the actor’s performance. With a Quentin Tarantino film, what you see is all Quentin Tarantino. That’s not me.”
Cox also revisited his long-running critique of Method acting, particularly targeting his “Succession” co-star Jeremy Strong. He claimed Strong has “begged me to stop” discussing his acting approach, adding: “He’s a good actor, Jeremy. He’s a wonderful actor. It’s just all the bollocks that goes with it. You watch children — they don’t say, ‘What’s my motivation?’ They just do it!” Cox previously linked Strong’s Method style to Daniel Day-Lewis, who worked as an assistant to the actor. Day-Lewis responded last year, calling Cox a “very fine actor” but noting he has “a soapbox which he shows no sign of climbing down from.”
In the interview, Cox also blasted the United States, saying: “In America they don’t like women. They won’t let a woman be president, not in the foreseeable future. Look what happened to Hillary Clinton. The patriarchy is so invasive and so insidious, it’s hard to throw it off. I think the patriarchy is a fucking mess, and it’s the patriarchy that got us into the position that we’re in at the moment, and we don’t learn the lessons. I say, give it over to the women.”
Cox has a history of outspoken comments, previously calling Johnny Depp “so overblown, so overrated” and criticising Edward Norton, Ian McKellen and Kevin Spacey. He later expressed regret over his remarks about Depp, saying he “went for the easy joke.”
