Brian Cox: Joaquin Phoenix Was ‘Truly Terrible’ in ‘Napoleon’
Brian Cox: Joaquin Phoenix Was 'Truly Terrible' in 'Napoleon' and 'I Would Have Played It a Lot Better' https://t.co/pq0vRnoNEu
- Variety (@Variety) April 17, 2024
Brian Cox has never been one to withhold his true feelings.
Cox was a featured speaker at HistFest, a two-day event celebrating the intersection of arts, academics and history.
About Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon.”
"It’s terrible. A truly terrible performance by Joaquin Phoenix. It really is appalling. I don’t know what he was thinking. I think it’s totally his fault and I don’t think Ridley Scott helps him. I would have played it a lot better than Joaquin Phoenix, I tell you that. You can say it’s good drama. No - it’s lies.”
Cox then mused about Phoenix’s name: “I think he’s well named. Joaquin … wackeen … wacky. It’s a sort of wacky performance.”
About Mel Gibson’s 1995 historical epic
“’Braveheart’ is a load of nonsense. Mel Gibson was wonderful but it’s a load of lies. He never impregnated the French princess. It is a bollocks [sic] that film.”
When asked to respond to theater critics comparing his theater role to “Succession’s” Logan Roy
“It’s stupid! Why make that comparison? It’s so obvious. Most critics are stupid. They really are. Theater criticism has gone right down the tubes. You think of those wonderful critics of the past, there’s nobody to match them now. Because they don’t do their homework.”
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