Authentic casting ignores craft of acting, says Succession’s Brian Cox

Actor recounts conversation about casting of disabled roles and ridicules billionaires' space race

The Succession star Brian Cox has said authentic casting, where roles are reserved for actors with the same lived experiences as a character, ignores the craft of acting".

Cox, who plays the media tycoon Logan Roy in the hit HBO show, said he had spent a lot of his recent time off from filming watching movies, including Russell Crowe as a mathematician with mental illness in A Beautiful Mind and Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.