Brian Cox has claimed Logan Roy was killed off ‘too early’ on the hit drama Succession and revealed how long he thinks the character should have survived.

The actor, 78, did not mind the media patriarch not living to see out the entire four-season run of the show but he wishes he had clung on for longer than the first three episodes of the final series.

Speaking at the Oxford Union, he praised the show’s ending and said: ‘My only caveat to that, though I think I was happy to be killed off, I thought it was one episode too early because then you had more of those boring kids.’

Brian added that he belives creator Jesse Armstrong did the right thing in understanding that ‘clearly less is better than more’, and ended the programme before it outstayed its welcome.

The veteran actor was a particular fan of the work of his co-star Kieran Culkin, who played his son Roman Roy, for having maintained ‘that child actors’ enthusiasm.

He added: ‘It would be terrible to curtail that…

Brian Cox has claimed Logan Roy was killed off ‘too early’ on the hit drama Succession and revealed how long he thinks the character should have survived

The actor, 78, did not mind the patriarch not living to see out the entire four-season run of the show but he wishes he had clung on for longer than the first three episodes of the final series

‘The first series he would freak out if he had three alts (alternative lines), by the last series he was doing five pages of alts… it was wonderful to watch.’

Meanwhile, after President Donald Trump recently voiced his plan to appoint actors and supporters Jon Voight, Sylvester Stallone and Mel Gibson as ‘Hollywood ambᴀssadors’, Brian criticised the decision.

He branded Sylvester a ‘f****** idiot’ and dismissed Jon as ‘right of Attila the Hun’ and bemoaned the Trump administration as being a representation of a ‘fierce patriarchy’.

He added: ‘Personally [I] long for a matriarchy because the patriarchy just doesn’t work and hasn’t worked for years.’

And of The Apprentice star’s return to office, he said: ‘If that man does become President it means a lot of Americans are in a very bad way.’

Despite Logan being killed off in Succession, Brian recently refused to rule out reprising the role for a movie if the script was good enough.

He told Variety: ‘We’ll see. If it’s good enough and Jesse Armstrong wants to do it, I might do it.’

It comes after the actor slammed the Oscars last month as ‘absolute nonsense’ after he was snubbed for a nomination.

Speaking at the Oxford Union, he praised the show’s ending and said: ‘My only caveat to that, though I think I was happy to be killed off, I thought it was one episode too early’ 

The veteran actor was a particular fan of the work of his co-star Kieran Culkin, who played his son Roman Roy, for having maintained ‘that child actors’ enthusiasm’

The Scot played Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the 2017 film Churchill but failed to land a Best Actor nomination.

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In contrast Gary Oldman’s portrayal of the Brit politician in 2017’s Darkest Hour landed him the Best Actor Oscar – even though a slighted Cox still believes his own performance was superior.

He told The Hollywood Reporter: ‘Our film came out in the summer, and it was a relatively independent film, so you haven’t got the power of the studios behind it. The Oscars are absolute nonsense because everything that’s judged in the Oscars, it’s not a year’s work. It’s just the work that comes out between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

‘I think it makes those awards a fallacy quite honestly because there’s a lot of other good work that goes on outside of what they call Oscar season. So my film never even got a look, and I still think my performance is a better performance.’

Cox, who is a classically trained Shakespearean actor, has never landed an Oscar nomination but has won an Emmy for 2001’s Nuremberg and a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild Awards for his portrayal of Logan on Succession.