{"id":533103,"date":"2026-04-15T23:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/533103\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T23:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:42:09","slug":"life-after-logan-roy-brian-cox-directs-first-film-glenrothan-at-age-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/533103\/","title":{"rendered":"Life after Logan Roy &#8211; Brian Cox directs first film Glenrothan at age 79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cox says it&#8217;s &#8220;brilliant&#8221; that co-star Alan Cumming has taken over as Artistic Director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre, but his own packed schedule means he&#8217;s unable to appear in any future shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His next job is in the second season of the sequel Dexter: Resurrection which reunites him with Michael C Hall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I last worked with him nearly 30 years ago,&#8221; Cox says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were in the David Hare show Skylight and the reason I remember it so well was that we were having lunch in 1997 in a place on Sunset when we heard Princess Diana had died.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Later this summer, he&#8217;ll play Johann Sebastian Bach in the US premiere of the play The Score, directed by Trevor Nunn, who at 86 is also keen to fly the flag for older talent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cox doesn&#8217;t need much encouragement. In one scene in Glenrothan, he rugby tackles Alan Cumming&#8217;s Donal to the ground and wrestles him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re too old for this,&#8221; moans Donal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Says whom?&#8221; says Cox as Sandy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He chortles. His only regret was failing to capture the reaction shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I stupidly didn&#8217;t take the shot of Alan watching me rushing at him,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I should have cut &#8216;boom, boom, boom&#8217; because the look on Alan&#8217;s face was brilliant. No idea what was coming!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cox says it&#8217;s &#8220;brilliant&#8221; that co-star Alan Cumming has taken over as Artistic Director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-533103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}