Brian Cox didn’t mince words and phrases when he bashed Joaquin Phoenix’s performing effectiveness in the 2023 historical drama “Napoleon.”
“It’s horrible,” the “Succession” star, 77, mentioned at London’s HistFest earlier this week. “A truly awful functionality by Joaquin Phoenix.”
The English actor continued: “It actually is appalling. I really do not know what he was considering. I believe it is entirely his fault and I do not assume [director] Ridley Scott assists him.
“I would have played it a large amount much better than Joaquin Phoenix, I convey to you that. You can say it is good drama. No — it’s lies. I assume he’s well named. Joaquin … wackeen … wacky. It is a type of wacky efficiency,” he went on about the pronunciation of Phoenix’s identify.
“Napoleon” starred Vanessa Kirby as the army commander’s lover and spouse, Joséphine Bonaparte, and targeted on the 19th century Frenchman’s rise to electric power.
Cox also reacted to Mel Gibson’s 1995 period drama “Braveheart,” taking a swipe at the historic aspect of it.
“ ’Braveheart’ is a load of nonsense,” the “X2” star said. “Mel Gibson was amazing but it’s a load of lies. He in no way impregnated the French princess. It is a bollocks that movie.”
Cox appeared in the movie as Argyle Wallace.
Past February, Cox even dissed previous “Succession” co-star Jeremy Strong’s approach acting procedure in an interview with Town & Place.
“He’s a extremely great actor. And the rest of the ensemble is all Alright with this. But knowing a character and what the character does is only component of the talent set,” he mentioned of Strong, 45, at the time.
“It’s f–king irritating,” Cox extra of the “Selma” star usually getting in character. “Don’t get me going on it.”
Even more, Cox shaded Meghan Markle past 12 months by noting that she “knew what she was acquiring into” when she married Prince Harry in 2018.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have because moved to California.
Cox mentioned in a Haute Living New York interview that the “Suits” star, 42, had “the childhood dreams of marrying Prince Charming and all that s–t we see as fantasy that could be our lives in our desires.
“You can’t go into a program where by somebody’s previously been skilled to behave in a certain variety of way and then just assume them to slash them selves off,” he reported.
