Chris Wallace, being the “Succession” fan that he is, posted his “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” The guest, Brian Cox, wanted to grace him with his signature line from the show – meaning, the newsman was said to “f-off”.
“Your line, and I would rather You say it MeWallace began, only for Cox to quickly jump in with his “Succession” character’s infamous signature line, “F-off”.
“I was hoping you’d say it to me before this interview is over,” Wallace replied slyly.
Watch their conversation in the video at the top.
Ahead of the final season of the HBO drama series, which will premiere on March 26, Wallace pressed Cox on his strong feelings that the Roy family is not based on media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his family, which Cox confirmed, saying, “I reject it completely.
“But as someone who has spent 18 years working at Fox, I’m going to present a scene that I think cuts a little closer to the bone on that subject,” Wallace told Logan Roy during a heated conversation between shot back before playing the clip. Cox) and his son, Kendall (Jeremy Strong), in which father and son wrestle with where ethics intersect with business, if they do.
“You don’t hear any echoes of Murdoch there?” Wallace asked.
“Well,” Cox replied, “there’s echoes of anybody who’s been in that position, a position where they’re running an empire… The big difference between Murdoch and Logan is that Logan ran his empire.” Make [while] Murdoch already had an empire, and he extended it.
“You mean he inherited it from his father,” Wallace said.
Cox continues to explore the humanity of his stoic character, noting that while Kendall may say her father is evil because of his prejudice or viewpoint, Logan does not believe he has malicious intentions.
“I think Logan, in many ways, is saying, ‘These are my rules, and these are what I do,’ but again, the mystery element is where is Logan coming from?” Cox said. “He’s really coming from somewhere, I think, a place of deep despair and deep hopelessness in the human experiment. I think he feels very, very badly disappointed.
Chris Wallace’s interview with Brian Cox on “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace” is now streaming on HBO Max.