Broadcast last Sunday to Monday morning, ‘Church and State’ is being one of those episodes of ‘Succession’ to analyze each frame and each moment of its 70 minutes. A few minutes that they have also had one of the cameos that have most excited the fans. By the way, spoilers for the episode.
And it is that, in what is practically a metafiction game, one of the attendees at Logan Roy’s funeral is someone very close to Brian Cox: his very own wife in real life Nicole Ansari-Coxwho appears in the series to give life to Sally Anne, one of the “dear” officers of the magnate.
The person in charge of introducing us to the character is Caroline (Harriet Walter), Logan’s second wife and mother of the skull trio, who amicably introduces her to Marcia (Hiam Abbass) as the Kerry (Zoë Winters) correspondent and going to sit together in the, so to speak, the widows’ bench.
A cameo that is pure coincidence
A cameo as curious as it was even funny that Mark Mylod, the director of this ninth episode of the final season of ‘Succession’, has explained, assuring that it was a pure coincidence since both Ansari-Cox and her husband were hanging around the set during the preparation of the chapter:
«That Nicole came [para el papel] it was totally coincidental. She had asked if she could shadow me because she’s a director and she asked if she could be around and join me on the episode. I’m glad she did. She is a great director and a really wonderful person. She so she was with me. When we got the script there was this character, Sally Anne. She said “That’s me! It’s my exact profile. Do you mind if I read it for it?” I said, “Nicole, get on with it!” And she was fantastic, which is why she got the part. She did a double as director shadow and Sally Anne. »
As a curiosity, to say that during Logan’s funeral sequence, Brian Cox was on the set as part of a plan for the series to mislead the curious and paparazzi and hiding so they were filming the death of his character.
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