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‘It’s as much about what [Logan Roy] doesn’t say as what he does’: Brian Cox at Melbourne Writers Festival. Photograph: MWF

Brian Cox: ‘You don’t embellish with Logan Roy’

Brian Cox said that with Logan Roy, the menacing patriarch he plays in hit HBO series Succession, it’s not just about the words in the script, but the pauses and the looks. “It’s as much about what he doesn’t say as what he does ... you don’t embellish with Logan.”