Succession Star Brian Cox Recalls Being "Agog" At “Stunningly Beautiful" Brad Pitt On Troy Set: “I’m Straight But I Thought, Wow!”

Brian Cox was blown away by how "stunningly beautiful" his 'Troy' co-star Brad Pitt was.

Speaking in a video interview with Vanity Fair, Cox said: "Brad walked on and my jaw was down because he was so stunningly beautiful. I mean I'm straight, you know, but I just thought, 'Wow! My God, this guy is stunning. What chance does one have on the screen with this beautiful, beautiful man?' "

"You know I remember one point you know, just kind of being agog at, you know, at Brad, because you know, he'd never been in costumes like that."

Cox — who has Alan, 51, and Margaret, 44, with first wife Caroline Burt and Orson, 19, and Torin, 17, with spouse Nicole Ansari — joked some of the other cast members were more accustomed to the costumes.

He quipped: "If we'd done the classical theatre, we're always without pants, you know?"

The veteran star admitted Agamemnon was "the only part [he had] ever pursued" and continued to do so even when he was aware the role had already been offered to Sir Ben Kingsley.

He added: "I've never pursued anything. I've always allowed it to fall out the way it fell out. But I knew the part was available and I knew that I was dead right for the role of Agamemnon.

"I volunteered to fly myself to London to meet [director] Wolfgang Petersen. I think it'd been offered, the part had been offered to Ben Kingsley. And I had this meeting and it went incredibly well. I got the role.'"

— BANG SHOWBIZ

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