
Rupert Murdoch has insisted his eldest son and recently announced successor is “committed to the cause” of pursuing freedom of speech—but Scottish actor Brian Cox, who starred in HBO’s Succession as a tycoon inspired by the outgoing Fox Corp. boss, is unconvinced.
In an interview with the BBC on Sunday, Cox—who played Logan Roy in all four seasons of the hit series—weighed in on the recent moves within Murdoch’s media empire, and lashed out at the notoriously divisive tycoon.