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Brian Cox: ‘Wealth? I get embarrassed’

Succession made him a star. Now, as the actor returns to his home town for a new play, he talks to Andrew Billen about marriage, fatherhood and money

In the play Smith, who was primarily a philosopher and did not even recognise the word “economist”, is shocked that he is remembered for his book The Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, rather than his earlier Theory of Moral Sentiments. Seeing the young Cox’s horror, the actor Gawn Grainger (Zoë Wanamaker’s husband, who died only this May) assured him the pair “were just a little overexcited after a night on the bevy”. I compare his nonchalance to last year when Cox was reported to Equity for losing his temper during rehearsals for a production of A Long Day’s Journey Into Night.

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