Brian Cox Shares A Wonderful Story About Working With Laurence Olivier

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  • @PeterSmith-go9ef
    @PeterSmith-go9ef Рік тому +23

    Great story, so perfectly told. One great actor talking about another.

    • @AntonioBarsanio
      @AntonioBarsanio 9 місяців тому +2

      Larry? 😁 I wish we still had thes caliber of actors today.

    • @bryanferratt6598
      @bryanferratt6598 5 місяців тому

      ​@@AntonioBarsanioWe have Brian Cox, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Ciaran Hinds, and Anthony Hopkins.

  • @carolejander
    @carolejander Рік тому +10

    This is priceless
    Thankyou Brian Cox

  • @ccgamedes33
    @ccgamedes33 Рік тому +12

    Brian's rendering is pitch perfect !!!

  • @elizabethtoews7866
    @elizabethtoews7866 2 роки тому +20

    I believe it. He was very sensitive about criticism. Saw Olivier as Shylock and James Tyrone. Also saw Brian Cox with Kenneth Moore. Wonderful presence on stage.

  • @davidevans3227
    @davidevans3227 Рік тому +3

    now looking for the whole interview..
    thankyou for sharing this 🙂

  • @MahlerHolic1860
    @MahlerHolic1860 Рік тому +4

    What a great reminiscence. Fantastic.

  • @mayatoman5882
    @mayatoman5882 Рік тому +14

    Always admired Michael Hordern, seeing him in London, Eng. on stage in "Jumpers", a brilliant actor, in a most difficult longwinded role which he carried off brilliantly.
    Previously in "El Cid", he played Heston's father... Brian Cox- he did some good Canadian work as well--with some of
    my friends- Len Doncheff- one of them- in "Nuremberg" filmed in Montreal.

  • @JustSomeCanadianGuy
    @JustSomeCanadianGuy Рік тому +17

    Michael Caine said Olivier said “You must call me Larry.”

  • @mortalclown3812
    @mortalclown3812 2 роки тому +37

    To the person who didn't find this story 'wonderful'; it was. It told so very much and I'm glad I heard it.

    • @Roz-y2d
      @Roz-y2d 11 місяців тому

      Sorry, but no. ☹️

    • @rosemaryallen2128
      @rosemaryallen2128 7 місяців тому

      ​​@@Roz-y2d There now, you've achieved nothing, but told the world about your own limitations.

    • @sparksdrinker5650
      @sparksdrinker5650 4 місяці тому

      “Wonderful” is a stretch, let’s go with “good”.

  • @kyamaldinihill
    @kyamaldinihill Рік тому +14

    This is amazing. If you've read Olivier's autobiographies or accounts of experiences from his peers, you'd know that sounds like something he would say! 🤣
    The book Olivier by Philip Ziegler is a good one. And based on that alone, watching this, I can see him actually doing that. As the kids would say, it's "on brand!" 😁

  • @alidabaxter5849
    @alidabaxter5849 Рік тому +3

    Re "Sleuth" which somebody else has mentioned, he had enormous trouble with his lines and his part before shooting started which turned out to resolve once he'd got the right moustache, I believe. And he often forgot his lines and when he did one eyebrow would go up (Sarah Miles told this story). But whatever, he was a great actor, as is lovely Brian Cox.

  • @vikinghex
    @vikinghex Рік тому +3

    some people knock you out with just one statement like he just did my dad served in the merchant navy in WWII he never said a word about it my uncle Wal said to me that my dad was blown up twice on convoys picked up by tail end johnny not supposed to I remember him having nightmares snd shouting out at night .years later I asked him about it he just said the same we were better than them so we prevailed an Englishman all the way still miss him and I'm 79 now

  • @arriuscalpurniuspiso
    @arriuscalpurniuspiso Рік тому +1

    Brian Cox is a great man and a better actor

  • @sianwarwick633
    @sianwarwick633 Місяць тому +1

    The subtitles are... a bit annoying. Oh dear.

  • @raywalsh9152
    @raywalsh9152 Рік тому +12

    "And so Larry was acting in this movie called Marathon Man with Dustin Hoffman, and Dustin Hoffman show up for the shoot one morning looking absolutely wretched. And Larry says, 'Dusty, you look absolutely wretched.' To which Hoffman replies, 'Well, I've been up for over 24 hours, because in this scene my character has been up for over 24 hours.' To which Larry replies, 'Oh, Dusty, why don't you try ACTING.'

    • @2msvalkyrie529
      @2msvalkyrie529 4 місяці тому

      Yawn......!!

    • @Isleofskye
      @Isleofskye 3 місяці тому +2

      @@2msvalkyrie529 Just because you have heard it dors not mean everyone reading it has...

  • @johnmercury2272
    @johnmercury2272 Рік тому +8

    Is it safe?

  • @MattHoyle1
    @MattHoyle1 2 роки тому +2

    Is this full interview with Brian Cox available here on UA-cam from 92Y?

  • @Isleofskye
    @Isleofskye 3 місяці тому +1

    Brilliantly told about our greatest theatrical Actor even if he did have an go the size of Hyde Park:)

  • @A-small-amount-of-peas
    @A-small-amount-of-peas Рік тому +4

    Why the hard subtitles? Surely what he was saying was clear enough?

  • @robbillington1982
    @robbillington1982 Рік тому +1

    He said this while he was doing Sleuth. I think his words were “I can’t learn my fucking lines” 🤣

  • @michaelkopala3738
    @michaelkopala3738 Рік тому

    Lol! Love actors.

  • @AlexanderArsov
    @AlexanderArsov 2 роки тому +2

    Wonderful perhaps not, but a charming story certainly. Larry said nothing more than a simple truth, subjective though it may be. And in that Granada "Lear" he sure did know his lines. And what a performance it is!

  • @markduffy3717
    @markduffy3717 5 місяців тому +1

    Hordern was a master, too.

  • @anastasiabeaverhausen8220
    @anastasiabeaverhausen8220 2 роки тому +9

    Was lucky enuf to see Gielgud and Richardson on stage together in a Pinter play.

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 2 роки тому +2

      You’re very lucky

    • @narabdela
      @narabdela 5 місяців тому

      Same here. "No Man's Land".

  • @TheSaltydog07
    @TheSaltydog07 8 місяців тому +3

    There is one King Lear, and he is Sir Michael Hordern. ❤❤❤

  • @trawlins396
    @trawlins396 2 місяці тому

    This was hilarious 😂😂

  • @donaldauguston9740
    @donaldauguston9740 2 роки тому +3

    Too funny!

  • @katyalacrua6793
    @katyalacrua6793 Рік тому

    King lear went on 1983 and Larry died in 1989 in 82 years old.

  • @oldtimer7635
    @oldtimer7635 Рік тому +3

    I am not quite sure how funny that story actually is.

  • @Roz-y2d
    @Roz-y2d 11 місяців тому +2

    That was a lot of waffling. I think he made it up for something to say.

  • @soutteruk1
    @soutteruk1 4 місяці тому

    So ... Sir Larry - I've always been a royalist, dear heart - Sir Larry came up to me and said, 'Drop ye kecks, face ache! Ah'm gonna give you a right, fuckin' seein' to.' But that was Larry - always full of panache ...

  • @aq803
    @aq803 5 місяців тому

    Olivier had a huge ego, he played it down. He disliked Sir John Gielgud as they were always being compared. Most theatre critics preferred Gielgud's speaking voice which annoyed Olivier.
    He was the old style actor, you learn your lines and perform. He didn't really need or want improvisation. This was why he didn't like working in Hollywood.
    He was a good theatre actor but not so in films, he overacted. The reason being film directors were afraid to say anything to him.

  • @loge10
    @loge10 4 місяці тому

    No reason not to call him "Larry".

  • @katyalacrua6793
    @katyalacrua6793 Рік тому

    I do not believe that Sir Larry been in old age said f u c k.

    • @rosemaryallen2128
      @rosemaryallen2128 7 місяців тому

      It's called style!

    • @garyfoster3854
      @garyfoster3854 5 місяців тому

      I do.

    • @narabdela
      @narabdela 5 місяців тому +1

      He said it all the time!

    • @rosemaryallen2128
      @rosemaryallen2128 5 місяців тому +1

      @@narabdela All British actors swear constantly. I remember when the great Mike Gambon got an award and exclaimed, 'Fuck me!' Prissy-minded Clint Eastwood, of all people, stopped talking to him all evening!

  • @neilpatterson1615
    @neilpatterson1615 Рік тому

    I always thought Olivier was a terrible old ham, on th screen. Obviously never saw him on stage. May have been amazing there

  • @jillatherton4660
    @jillatherton4660 Рік тому

    👎

  • @someoneelse.2252
    @someoneelse.2252 2 роки тому +5

    I didn't find it a 'wonderful story'.

  • @toniwertman4818
    @toniwertman4818 Рік тому +2

    He likes to hear himself talk. Doesn’t he ??larry. John ?? They are not his contemporaries why is he referring to the greatest actors of all time on a first name basis. ??!

    • @swisskiwi1478
      @swisskiwi1478 Рік тому +5

      Umm how can he tell a story without talking?And he has a wonderful actor’s voice and talent for storytelling so may I suggest you simply don’t listen to it if he bothers you rather than complain afterwards because you did! 🤦‍♀️

    • @gerardmackay8909
      @gerardmackay8909 5 місяців тому +1

      What’s he meant to say? Sir John Gielgud and Sir Lawrence Olivier?

  • @maybebabyny
    @maybebabyny 2 роки тому +3

    Don't buy it.

    • @drparnassus2867
      @drparnassus2867 Рік тому +2

      There are plenty of stories like this from people who worked with Olivier in the last decade of his life, about how frail he was and how his memory was going, and also how fond he was of saying "fuck".