Succession’s Brian Cox Was Annoyed Logan’s Birthplace Is His Hometown

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Succession'sBrian Cox has revealed in a recent interview that he was annoyed his character’s birthplace is the same as his own hometown. Cox plays Logan Roy, the founder and CEO of Waystar Royco and is the patriarch of the Roy family in HBO’s blockbuster series, Succession. The hit drama focuses on the internal conflicts and struggle for power within the dysfunctional, mega-wealthy Roy family. 

Succession season 3 ended with quite the bang, as Logan showed that he never intended for any of his children to take over the media empire. Even before the season finale, the show has proven to be a huge hit with HBO, and a fourth season had been renewed by the network a week within the season 3 premiere. While Logan Roy’s hometown isn’t ever focused on in a major way throughout the series, it is told that he originally hails from Scotland. 

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In an interview with Vanity Fair, Cox talks about how his character was originally supposed to hail from Quebec. ForSuccession's first eight episodes, his accent was that of a Vermont/Quebec background. He revealed that later on during production, show runner Jesse Armstrong informed him that his character would actually be from Dundee, Scotland, the same hometown Cox is from. Cox expressed his annoyance at the character's background changing after having already shot nine episodes. The full quote can be read below:

“In the first episode I was originally born in Quebec, so I thought I’m not pretty good at Canadian. But I’ve spent a lot of time in Vermont, so I decided eh maybe a sort of that kind of accent around that-the Canadian border will do, so I did it. And then finally in the 9th episode Peter Friedman, who I’m