Brian Cox reveals how he tricked fans by covering up that SHOCK twist on set of Succession

Just hours after his character Logan Roy’s death on HBO’s Succession, Brian Cox revealed how he helped keep it a secret.

The 76-year-old actor appeared on Monday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where he opened up about his character’s shocking death.

He admitted on the show that he was “hopeless at keeping secrets,” adding that keeping the secret of Logan Roy’s death was “an absolute triumph.”

In the end, he helped keep the secret in a completely different way, when he showed up to his own funeral scene, which of course disguised the fact that it was Logan’s funeral.

The subterfuge worked, with Colbert Cox even showing a DailyMail.com headline from January when the scene was filmed… speculating who on the show may have died.

Colbert asked about the impending funeral scene, which will most likely take place in next week’s episode, as Cox revealed that they made a fake scene with him there that would scare off the press and fans…but wouldn’t actually be used in the episode.

“So what happened was they came up with this scene that I had to play in church. The church was in town, fancy, a Catholic church,” Cox began.

“What happened was I was on my way to shoot this scene and I got a call that we were behind. It’s a scene I’ll never use because it’s your funeral, so don’t come. I thought no, I have to go. I better go,” Cox added.

“I knew there would be a lot of paparazzi, and as soon as I got out of the car they started clicking away, so I could immediately put off the fact that it was my funeral,” Cox explains.

Colbert then hosted a January DailyMail.com story, which featured photos of Cox on set alongside Jeremy Strong and Nicholas Braun.

Cox added, “If I hadn’t, it would have been in the shit, I tell you.”

Colbert also showed Cox that The Los Angeles Times actually wrote an obituary for his character, though Cox admitted, “I’m afraid people will read it and think it’s my obituary.”

Just before Season 4, it was confirmed that this would be Succession’s final season, and when Cox was asked if he knew how it ended, he simply said, “Yes.”

When asked if he could “whisper” it in Colbert’s ear, Cox said he wouldn’t, though he added that his co-star Sarah Snook thought the show would still get a fifth season.

“No one knew how it would end. She thought it would continue. I said you know it’s over. She said no, it’s on. We’re going to do a fifth season. I said I don’t think we will. She said I think we will. At the very last readthrough, she still didn’t know the show was going to end,” Cox said of Snook.

When asked how he first found out that his character was going to die, Cox said he was “called to HQ and I got the news that he was leaving.”

He added that they didn’t say when he would die, but he said ‘fine’ and added, ‘It’s a job. There’s another job. It’s one of many.’

While adding that he’s done more than 209 movies and TV shows over the years, Logan Roy was “one of the greatest roles of all time.”

‘You can’t stand it. It’s been fantastic. But I just knew it had to come to an end and I admire, I admire Jesse Armstrong so much because it was a brave decision,” Cox said.

Cox also admitted that he has not seen the episode, and he has not seen a full episode of Succession, adding, “I never watch it if I can avoid it.” There are times when I’ve looked. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an entire episode.’

When asked why he doesn’t look at his own work, Cox said, ‘I always think I look like the elephant man. Body dysmorphia. I look at myself and I think “Ughhh.”

When asked what he will miss playing Logan Roy, Cox said, “I will miss the cast, the great great great crew. We have a crew. We have cameramen. We’d do it for the cameraman. The operator, we used to do this for the actors. We would do one for the operators. They would pick up on extraordinary things that we’re used to on the show. It’s a real egalitarian show. That was the beauty of it.’

Before the interview ended, Colbert asked if there was one last thing he’d like to get “off his chest,” as Logan Roy did, and Cox said, “Nobody understood him.”

“I am very sad about Logan. I think his last moment is a very, very precious one to everyone in good and kind and sweet and loving F**k Off!’ concluded Cox.