If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. It’s past 5:01 p.m., and Brian Cox is rollerskating down the beach in a suit. With Len’s “Steal My Sunshine” playing in the background, the award-winning Succession star …
Read More »'The Electric State' Is What You Get When You Turn Movies Into Content
There’s art, there’s entertainment — and then there’s “content,” the catch-all term that refers to the endless supply of stuff that is pumped out in the name of numbers and inventory. Art enlightens. Entertainment provides escapism. Content is simply there, clogging up the arteries of streaming services and clickbait sites, …
Read More »Kieran Culkin on Life After 'Succession' and Learning to Love Acting
Kieran Culkin looks as though someone’s stolen a piece of his soul. We’re seated across from one another in the bustling lobby of the Pendry, a tony hotel in Park City, Utah, and the Succession star has just clocked a middle-aged man not-so-surreptitiously snapping several photos of him from across …
Read More »Brian Cox Willing to Return as Logan Roy in a 'Succession' Film
Brian Cox is willing to participate in a Succession film spinoff, the Emmy-winning actor told Variety in an interview over the weekend. We’ll see,” Cox said. “If it’s good enough and [series creator] Jesse Armstrong wants to do it, I might do it.” How Cox would participate in any such …
Read More »'Succession' Star Brian Cox to Teach BBC Maestro Acting Class
Soon you, too, can nailthe art of playing a bastard. Having bid farewell to the darkly funny HBO drama, Successionstar Brian Cox is set to impart his acting skills on the education platform,BBC Maestro. “I believe everyone is an actor, but the difficulty is turning it into a career,” says …
Read More »Brian Cox Speaks Out Against 'Unacceptable' AI During U.K. Actors Solidarity Rally
Some of the U.K.’s most storied actors gathered in London today to show their support for the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike. The rally, held by the British version of SAG-AFTRA, Equity UK, saw everyone from Brian Cox to Imelda Staunton to Simon Pegg holding protest signs and speaking out in solidarity. …
Read More »'Succession' Finale: Mourning the Meme Account That's Kept Us Laughing
When 33-year-old Anna Golez started her No Context Succession Twitter account in July 2019, she was filling a void in her own interest and fandom. An avid TV fan, Golez turned her eye toward Succession after her other favorite HBO series, Veep, ended in May 2019 and she “wanted something …
Read More »Brian Cox Says Logan Roy Died 'Too Early' in 'Succession' Final Season
Brian Cox thinks Succession viewers should have lived with Logan Roy a little longer. In an interview with the BBC, the actor said he felt killing off Roy in the third episode of the HBO show’s final season was “too early.” In the episode, the Waystar CEO died while on …
Read More »That 'Succession' Funeral Episode Had a Killer Callback You Probably Missed
Barely a scene passes in the rarefied world of Succession without mention of money, the dollar amounts typically quite large. Connor Roy torches $100 million in his deluded presidential campaign. The other Roy siblings outmatch their father, Logan, in a bidding war for Pierce Global Media by offering $10 billion. …
Read More »'Succession' Recap: Logan Roy's Messy, Devastating Funeral
This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Succession, “Church and State.” “Today is just about today,” Kendall Roy insists early in “Church and State.” He is trying to broker a truce among his siblings on the day of their father’s funeral — to push aside thoughts of the …
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