“They were not serious people.”
Succession star Brian Cox has opened up about whether his on-screen kids should have taken over the Roy business in the final season of the hit HBO show.
The show ended with a fourth and final season in May, wrapping up with Alexander Skarsgård’s Lukas Matsson buying the Roy family media company and placing Matthew Macfadyen’s Tom Wambsgans in the lead job.
In a new interview with Screen Rant, Cox, whose character Logan Roy died earlier on in season four, said that while there was “potential” in two of Logan’s children – Roman and Shiv, neither of them were worthy of becoming his successor.
“The only one, ironically, who I think he feels could step up was Roman, because Roman showed a lot of sensibility, particularly in dealing with the Middle Eastern money – which was fake, and he knew it, and he could see it in season 2,” Cox said.
“I thought, ‘Wow, there is a potential in Roman,’ as I believe there is. That’s why I think Roman really, really loved his father.”
However, Cox explained that he thought Roman proved himself to be “such a child” and “so lost” during season four’s funeral episode, wherein Roman tries to deliver a eulogy but became hysterical and had to be rescued by his siblings, including Shiv.
“Shiv is the one that he felt strongly [about] because it’s his daughter. He felt that she should be the one, but in a sense, she just behaves like she can’t keep her f**king mouth shut, excuse my Greek,” Cox said, analysing Shiv’s worth as a successor.
“She really can’t, and that was a problem, and then she’s so uncertain of herself. Now you can blame the father for that, but actually, it’s about them, it’s not about him.”
Cox, who recently said he hasn’t watched the finale, continued: “I always knew that it wasn’t gonna work, they weren’t gonna get it, and they didn’t deserve it. They were not serious people.”
