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Brian Cox turned down 'Game of Thrones' because it paid too little - Entertainment Weekly News
Jan 16, 2022 1 min, 42 secs

A new excerpt from the Succession star's upcoming memoir Putting the Rabbit in the Hat reveals that he turned down a role on Game of Thrones because "the money was not all that great." In the passage, published by GQ, Cox explains his rationale for passing on the blockbuster HBO series in a tone that suggests he harbors no regrets about the decision.

"I'm often asked if I was offered a role in Game of Thrones — reason being that every other bugger was — and the answer is, yes, I was supposed to be a king called Robert Baratheon, who apparently died when he was gored by a boar in the first season," Cox writes.

"I know very little about Game of Thrones, so I can't tell you whether or not he was an important character, and I'm not going to google it just in case he was, because I turned it down." (Yes: Cox was apparently unenthused at the prospect of being floored by a boar.)?

While on the subject of fantasy franchises, Cox also addresses speculation on why he never played a role in the Harry Potter series — and no, despite what you might think, he didn't pull an Alan Cumming and tell the producers to "f--- off.".

Nor does he stop there; apparently determined to spill as much tea as possible, Cox adds that he also turned down the role of Governor Swann in Pirates of the Caribbean, noting, "It would have been a money-spinner, but of all the parts in that film it was the most thankless, plus I would have ended up doing it for film after film and missed out on all the other nice things I've done." He also, as revealed in a previously released portion of the excerpt, calls the franchise's star Johnny Depp "so overblown" and "so overrated.".

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