{"id":33458,"date":"2023-06-04T14:05:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T12:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1840350"},"modified":"2023-06-05T11:45:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T09:45:52","slug":"succession-star-brian-cox-explains-why-he-hasnt-watched-finale","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/succession-star-brian-cox-explains-why-he-hasnt-watched-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Succession star Brian Cox explains why he hasn\u2019t watched finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Viewers around the world were gripped by the show&#8217;s conclusion last weekend \u2013 but the Logan Roy actor wasn&#8217;t one of them. <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Christian Tobin\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Sunday, 04 June 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p><strong>**Warning: This article contains full spoilers for Succession season 4**<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/succession-season-5-release\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Succession<\/a> star Brian Cox has revealed that he still hasn\u2019t watched the dramatic final episode.<\/p>\n<p>The actor, who played Logan Roy on the HBO show up until his character was killed off in season 4 episode 3, appeared on this morning\u2019s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, where he was asked why he\u2019s yet to watch the series finale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m dead! Dead people don\u2019t watch things like that,\u201d he laughed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never liked watching myself for a start, and somehow or other, because of what happened to Logan, I\u2019ve been disinclined to watch the rest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cox continued: \u201cI knew how it was going to end because I knew that Logan had already set it up and so I gather that ultimately [in] the end Logan\u2019s won through, even though he\u2019s in the grave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s a strange situation. I don\u2019t cling onto things \u2013 when I\u2019m over, it\u2019s over and I go on. And I find that with this show, which has been a great show \u2013 it has been one of the great shows of all time, especially for me \u2013 so I can\u2019t complain.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;\" data-dnt=\"&quot;true&quot;\"><p lang=\"&quot;en&quot;\" dir=\"&quot;ltr&quot;\">\u201cI knew that Logan had already set it up\u201d<br\/><br\/>Succession star Brian Cox reveals he hasn\u2019t watched the finale of the hit show but says he knew what was coming and that none of his character\u2019s children \u201cdeserved\u201d to win in the end<a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BBCLauraK?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;\">#BBCLauraK<\/a> <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/t.co\/cNQhRe9nOr&quot;\">https:\/\/t.co\/cNQhRe9nOr<\/a> <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/t.co\/kIWuKqYCQy&quot;\">pic.twitter.com\/kIWuKqYCQy<\/a><\/p>\u2014 BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCPolitics\/status\/1665286020798251008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;\">June 4, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async=\"\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js&quot;\" charset=\"&quot;utf-8&quot;\"\/>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/succession-ending-explained-finale-spoilers-recap\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Succession\u2019s series finale<\/a> aired last weekend and saw <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/succession-tom-winner-comment\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Tom Wambsgans named CEO<\/a>, as <span class=\"&quot;mw-page-title-main&quot;\">Lukas Matsson\u2019s acquisition of Waystar Royco was approved by the board.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It meant that none of the Roy children ultimately ended up in the coveted position \u2013 a plot point that Cox fully agrees with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, and they don\u2019t deserve to,\u201d he told Kuenssberg. \u201cAnd I think that\u2019s the whole point of the show \u2013 the show\u2019s been heading that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/succession-jeremy-strong-kendall-finale-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Succession\u2019s Jeremy Strong gives his view on stunning finale<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/succession-season-4-finale-jesse-armstrong-right-ending-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Succession showrunner on why season 4 finale was the \u201cright ending\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Last month, Cox suggested that <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/brian-cox-succession-logan-roy-rejected-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Logan had been written out of Succession \u201ctoo early\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think maybe he could have died in about\u2026 I would have thought the fifth or sixth episode,\u201d he said. \u201cThat would have been appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Logan only appeared in the series through old video footage after his shock death, the penultimate episode did include <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/succession-season-4-brian-cox-wife-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">a surprise cameo from Cox\u2019s wife Nicole Ansari-Cox<\/a> as one of the media mogul\u2019s former mistresses attending his funeral.<\/p> <p><strong>Succession airs on Sky Atlantic and\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.nowtv.com\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; 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