People forget that Brian Cox was the very first Dr Hannibal Lecter in Michael Mann’s “Manhunter” (1986). William Peterson plays the FBI agent Will Graham. Cox is unbelievably ice cold as Lecter. Worth a watch.
I thoroughly agree with Brian C. about the non "clarity" in today's acting. I hate having to rewind because the actor was speaking either too low, or not very clearly.
Darned annoying isn’t it, equally the ‘emotive whispering’ trend grates, any time we watch a recent movie or TV show together we end up having to rewind and turn it up at least once to catch some significant dialogue exchange, even then its often so mumbled we need subtitles, and of course there are too many window rattling sub-bass booms to leave the volume up throughout. I once could compensate for this with a 5.1 surround system by dropping down the bass box a tad and pumping up the front centre dialogue speaker, but as the vocals continue to drop and the sub-bass to rise, it’s now reaching levels that cannot be compensated for, even on adverts! I can only guess that the current anti-social media push for everyone to watch everything home alone on a phone using BT earbuds plays a part? With cinema dying, they’ve gotta nurse those viewing figures somehow…
2:42 😳 THE FACE of EXCITEMENT on Stephen’s face is PRICELESS 😂 Like a kid jumping at seeing Santa for the first time 😂 love it. Just genuine joy for theater
I interviewed David Threlfall a few years ago and was auditioning for a Laurence Olivier production in the 70’s at ITV. He was running late and had to park up in the car park quickly. whilst reversing he accidentally knocked over an elderly gentleman that was crossing, Stopping his car, David got out to see to this man on the floor and helped him up. Only to realise it was Laurence Olivier himself 😂 He still got the part.
@@Richard_Nickerson Trust me, I've worked with this :) My point is, it's easier for a recording that would otherwise be a loss, to now be "good enough".
@@Richard_Nickerson Never intended to patronize. Just building off your comment to say that it's not just the mix, but also often the quality of the recordings themselves. It doesn't hurt to be nice sometimes.
Yes this 100%. There is a level of class, sincerity and banter that is hard to emulate without coming off as fake. I sometimes fear that some story will come out about Colbert that'll shatter my reality, but I hope that never happens.
Sir Michael Hordern was a very acclaimed stage and screen actor, but is one of those people who for those of my generation (40s) came just a bit before our time - in terms of actually knowing his face. His voice, though, might be a different matter. Too early for me to remember first hand, still, yet one role especially that’s endured, is where he played Gandalf in the famous 1980 BBC radio adaptation of _The Lord of the Rings_ - the one that had future film-Bilbo Ian Holm as Frodo, the great comic actor John Le Mesurier as Bilbo and a young Bill Nighy as Sam. But for those of my sort of age, his voice is perhaps best known as that of all the characters in the Paddington Bear animated series made around the same time!
Looks like this Rohirrim film may stick a little closer to the spirit of the books.Excellent. It's a measure of my respect for Stephen that I'm going to have to double check my Anglo-Saxon pronunciation, because he pronounced the long e in "Théoden" differently than I expected. I've got two MAs in Latin and Greek, and have studied bits and bobs of languages from Coptic to Linear B to German to Sindarin Elvish (but not Quenya, mea culpa.)
I am 1000% in agreement, it is very noticeable that today's actors don't speak or enunciate words clearly. I've had to turn on captions simply based on when the film or show was made when it is newer stuff
Captain O'Hagan : "I swear to God I'll pistol whip the next guy who says "Shenanigans." Mac : "Hey Farva what's the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy sh*t on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?" Farva : "You mean Shenanigans? You're talking about Shenanigans right?" -Super Troopers 😂
_"I'm a bit mutton"_ (Mutt & Jeff = deaf) Love Brian sharing a bit of Cockney Rhyming Slang with Mr Colbert and his audience... 😄 I'm Hank Marvin (starving) and quite fancy a Ruby (Murray = curry) myself!
Was great to hear Brian Cox and his stories, but any of these actors like Guilgud and Olivier were stage actors first. In a theatre they had to speak clearly and project their voices so they could be heard throughout the theatre. However, a lot of modern actors have only ever acted on tv or movies and so have never learnt how to project their voices and thats why they mumble. A sensitive mic can pick it up, but in a theatre they would be completely mute.
The best Laurence Olivier story ..ever , came from the late ,brilliant , much missed Robin Williams on Letterman . He told the story where he met Lord Larry for the first time . His Lordship asked Robin " are you wearing makeup " , in his most posh voice ? Robin replied " yes sir , I am . And Lord Olivier replied .." well don't , " it makes you look effeminate " . Robin looks into the camera and yells " hey Larry ...how's Danny Kaye " ?
I remember Michael Hordern played Lear on BBC TV and, the same year, Olivier played him on ITV. Being a slightly nerdy schoolboy at the time I watched the Hordern version with the text on front of me. I didn't watch the Olivier version (I wasn't that nerdy). Perhaps I should have.
Great actor and brilliant speaker but he gave away how he really feels about England on Question time a few years ago. I always find it strange that a man who called himself an Anglophile can hate that country, especially when he made a good career in England and classed many English people as his friends!
He's absolutely right. That phenomenon is when you are watching an actor and they mumble, and you wonder what they said. So, the effect is oh my goodness what did they say, what was that?? And you think that they've just been a genius because you didn't catch what they said. That is absolute BS. They have not been a genius. They have been a terrible actor. A cheap actor. A cheap actor using a cheap trick.😅
@@ppuh6tfrz646 It wasn't at the expense of his frailty and confusion, or necessarily at his expense at all. It's a funny, and even admiring, anecdote of an old actor's spirit and/or vanity.
The day somebody came with the idea to speak fast on tv shows ,we lost 90% of the quality of them,it’s all about money,unfortunately art can’t be rushed ,we need to understand the people we are watching for any show to work,but hey,tell that to the billionaire producers ,who think they make more money if people speak so fast,and then we don’t understand a word !
@@hawsrulebegin7768 I didn't say you couldn't have an opinion. I didn't even say you couldn't express it. I simply said that people who go out of their way to be negative can expect to be judged negatively. If you're fine with that then by all means continue being negative.
@@godfreypigott but your judging me negatively for criticising someone. So how’s that work? It’s almost like you don’t hold yourself to your own aloof rules. I’m thinking maybe you have some feeling of being the judge of what’s acceptable but guilty yourself. How about getting off your moral high horse and be your true self. A sweaty pig in the dirt like the rest of us down here in bedlam.
"With all due respect": you should have put Yulia Navalnaya on first. That was a really bad dis. Where are our priorities gentlemen? Stephen, I love you, everybody loves you. Just had to say something.
I can 100% bet that the people criticising Brian Cox and possibly their dislike for him stems from the fact that they are unionists. And Brian Cox is a staunch and proud Scottish Nationalist.😂😂😄😄😄🏴🏴🏴
ManHunter, while overshadowed by Silence.o.tLambs, is such a quality picture. the only drawback was some of the editing being "dated" even by 91' standards, and the ending just kinda happened.
I agree. Saw William Peterson in the original CSI show and said that's the guy from Manhunter. Everyone else: what's that? Manhunter scared the crap out of me. SotL grossed me out. Two very different things.
In 2015 Brian kindly agreed to chat with me and my small group of drama students after watching his performance in The Weir in London. Very generous.
Brian Cox is incredible. Good listen to him all day.
I love how enthusiastic Stephen is during this interview. Very youthful and excited. It’s infectious ❤😊 thank you for this conversation.
Beautifully put.
He's such a theater nerd. In the best of ways
The absolutely brilliant Brian Cox. Intelligent, talented, interesting. I envy Colbert.
People forget that Brian Cox was the very first Dr Hannibal Lecter in Michael Mann’s “Manhunter” (1986). William Peterson plays the FBI agent Will Graham. Cox is unbelievably ice cold as Lecter. Worth a watch.
That's a GREAT film, everyone plays a fantastic role & it's genuinely unsettling & scary. Tiger's teeth...😮
I thoroughly agree with Brian C. about the non "clarity" in today's acting. I hate having to rewind because the actor was speaking either too low, or not very clearly.
This is a known phenomenon in recent television/movies. We pretty much have subs on all the time for everything.
Darned annoying isn’t it, equally the ‘emotive whispering’ trend grates, any time we watch a recent movie or TV show together we end up having to rewind and turn it up at least once to catch some significant dialogue exchange, even then its often so mumbled we need subtitles, and of course there are too many window rattling sub-bass booms to leave the volume up throughout.
I once could compensate for this with a 5.1 surround system by dropping down the bass box a tad and pumping up the front centre dialogue speaker, but as the vocals continue to drop and the sub-bass to rise, it’s now reaching levels that cannot be compensated for, even on adverts!
I can only guess that the current anti-social media push for everyone to watch everything home alone on a phone using BT earbuds plays a part? With cinema dying, they’ve gotta nurse those viewing figures somehow…
I think they try to be too realistic nowadays. It makes a lot of things boring, too.
What a voice and storyteller! 😍
Thanks for having Brian Cox on!
Great guest great interview. Thank you Stephen
2:42 😳 THE FACE of EXCITEMENT on Stephen’s face is PRICELESS 😂
Like a kid jumping at seeing Santa for the first time 😂 love it. Just genuine joy for theater
Lord Olivier, and Cox is right about clarity of speech and articulation.
Brian can do anything. Stage, big screen, even sit-coms, and a great talk show guest.
That was an awesome Olivier impression at the end. Dead on!! Great clip!
Brian Cox is a legend !
Who but Olivier could have delivered such sentiments with such vigour and clarity?
And Michael Hordern was indeed a great actor.
Love this actor ❤
Ngl, I swore he was wearing a weed jacket for a good 2 minutes
In the other video someone was complimenting the jacket and I thought "Are those hemp leaves?" I zoomed in and they're some type of bug.
Lol me too, then I thought it was bees.
😂 me too
😂
Same
Antoni Hopkins was unbelievable in king leer
I interviewed David Threlfall a few years ago and was auditioning for a Laurence Olivier production in the 70’s at ITV.
He was running late and had to park up in the car park quickly. whilst reversing he accidentally knocked over an elderly gentleman that was crossing, Stopping his car, David got out to see to this man on the floor and helped him up. Only to realise it was Laurence Olivier himself 😂
He still got the part.
Cox was a formidable Titus Andronicus. Incomparable. A definitive performance.
It's not just that people speak with less clarity, it's that the sound mixing has gotten terrible. They drown out the speech now.
Often sound recording, too. Better digital tools means it's easier to save on good recording on set.
@toresbe
Obviously not though
@@Richard_Nickerson Trust me, I've worked with this :) My point is, it's easier for a recording that would otherwise be a loss, to now be "good enough".
@@toresbe
The thing I opposed was calling it good. I've edited plenty of music & video, I'm not some nobody who needs to be patronized, guy.
@@Richard_Nickerson Never intended to patronize. Just building off your comment to say that it's not just the mix, but also often the quality of the recordings themselves. It doesn't hurt to be nice sometimes.
re: mumble. Yes I hate having to put on subtitles to follow english/american shows when my native language is English.
He was also the original Hannibal Lector. 'Nuff said.
The "late, great"? lolz
The Rockstar video game “Manhunt” will forever be one of the first things I think of whenever I see this man. His voice truly is legendary.
Stephen is by far the best interviewer on late night IMO.
Yes this 100%. There is a level of class, sincerity and banter that is hard to emulate without coming off as fake. I sometimes fear that some story will come out about Colbert that'll shatter my reality, but I hope that never happens.
Agreed
That's why he's the best. It's his overall sincerity that makes it.
The wonderful Brian a
Cox
I'm your Uncle....Arrrgyll. The great Brian Cox. The Shakespearian actors are unmatched.
Love the actor and the insect shirt
Sir Michael Hordern was a very acclaimed stage and screen actor, but is one of those people who for those of my generation (40s) came just a bit before our time - in terms of actually knowing his face. His voice, though, might be a different matter. Too early for me to remember first hand, still, yet one role especially that’s endured, is where he played Gandalf in the famous 1980 BBC radio adaptation of _The Lord of the Rings_ - the one that had future film-Bilbo Ian Holm as Frodo, the great comic actor John Le Mesurier as Bilbo and a young Bill Nighy as Sam. But for those of my sort of age, his voice is perhaps best known as that of all the characters in the Paddington Bear animated series made around the same time!
Love this man!
Looks like this Rohirrim film may stick a little closer to the spirit of the books.Excellent.
It's a measure of my respect for Stephen that I'm going to have to double check my Anglo-Saxon pronunciation, because he pronounced the long e in "Théoden" differently than I expected. I've got two MAs in Latin and Greek, and have studied bits and bobs of languages from Coptic to Linear B to German to Sindarin Elvish (but not Quenya, mea culpa.)
I am 1000% in agreement, it is very noticeable that today's actors don't speak or enunciate words clearly. I've had to turn on captions simply based on when the film or show was made when it is newer stuff
Captain O'Hagan : "I swear to God I'll pistol whip the next guy who says "Shenanigans."
Mac : "Hey Farva what's the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy sh*t on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?"
Farva : "You mean Shenanigans? You're talking about Shenanigans right?"
-Super Troopers 😂
love the rhyming slang YESS
_"I'm a bit mutton"_ (Mutt & Jeff = deaf)
Love Brian sharing a bit of Cockney Rhyming Slang with Mr Colbert and his audience... 😄
I'm Hank Marvin (starving) and quite fancy a Ruby (Murray = curry) myself!
RIP The fantastic Michael Hordern (referenced in Brian's story) and of course, dear Larry...
Brian fox attire do entertain ❤
Was great to hear Brian Cox and his stories, but any of these actors like Guilgud and Olivier were stage actors first. In a theatre they had to speak clearly and project their voices so they could be heard throughout the theatre. However, a lot of modern actors have only ever acted on tv or movies and so have never learnt how to project their voices and thats why they mumble. A sensitive mic can pick it up, but in a theatre they would be completely mute.
He was a brilliant Lecter.
Clarity! I agree.
We're also used to another, very different, Brian Cox in the UK.
The best Laurence Olivier story ..ever , came from the late ,brilliant , much missed Robin Williams on Letterman . He told the story where he met Lord Larry for the first time . His Lordship asked Robin " are you wearing makeup " , in his most posh voice ? Robin replied " yes sir , I am . And Lord Olivier replied .." well don't , " it makes you look effeminate " . Robin looks into the camera and yells " hey Larry ...how's Danny Kaye " ?
I've met him twice. Lovely man. I was very inebriated the first time and he was very charming in the face of my drunkeness.
Love Joy Peace 🌺🍃🌸🍃🌺🌱🌹✨✨✨✨✨✨💫
💙💙💙
Larry 😂❤
Paul Scofield!
He's absolutely correct on the mumbling. I'm tired of it, unnunciate.
3:13 Olivier actually died six years later, not a couple of months later.
Brian Cox's memory is a bit off - he appeared with Olivier in the BBC King Lear in 1983. Olivier died in 1989.
A great Scot.
That is an accent made for swearing!
🖤💙
I named a dachshund puppy Titus. Apartment management wasn't f'n around tho 😞
PLEASE elaborate. Sounds like an interesting story, seriously.
Best.. Perhaps; Favourite Films of his are The Autopsy of Jane Doe and The Long Kiss Goodenight.
Nice pot leaf jacket
First look that was I thought but it’s moths when you zoom in.
I remember Michael Hordern played Lear on BBC TV and, the same year, Olivier played him on ITV. Being a slightly nerdy schoolboy at the time I watched the Hordern version with the text on front of me. I didn't watch the Olivier version (I wasn't that nerdy). Perhaps I should have.
Not to be confused with Professor Brian Cox who doesn't swear as much 🙃
Great actor and brilliant speaker but he gave away how he really feels about England on Question time a few years ago. I always find it strange that a man who called himself an Anglophile can hate that country, especially when he made a good career in England and classed many English people as his friends!
I don't know John Gielgud, but Brian Cox's impersonation of him sounds like Richard Kind.
Cox’s impression wasn’t bad, if a bit throw away.
Am I the only one who came here thinking it was Brian cox, the physicist? 😂
He's absolutely right. That phenomenon is when you are watching an actor and they mumble, and you wonder what they said. So, the effect is oh my goodness what did they say, what was that?? And you think that they've just been a genius because you didn't catch what they said. That is absolute BS. They have not been a genius. They have been a terrible actor. A cheap actor. A cheap actor using a cheap trick.😅
I watch TV with the subtitles on all the time - mumbling has become the norm.
The first and best Hannibal Lechtor.
Brian, will you please return to the Frasier reboot for a few episodes?
🎉❤
I wish Hollywood would not have screwed our UK Film industry the way they did in 2023/2024.
He looks like Colonel Sanders.
I recommend anybody reading this comment to watch Thérèse Raquin with Brian Cox.
Is that a honneybee logo?
❤😂
This is not the Brian Cox you were looking for
I was looking forward to this episode thinking it was the professor Brian Cox!
i thought they was weed leaves on his jacket
I think you’re ready to invest in producing high-quality content for Netflix. This way, OPEC will pay for the films with oil.
Arnold Palmer fan?
Is Bob Servant in the US to expand his cheeseburger empire Stateside?
If Brian Cox had any decency, he wouldn't have told that story about Olivier.
Oh gimme a break.
@@pjmlegrande Because you like Cox and don't mind him making a joke at the expense of Olivier's frailty and confusion?
@@ppuh6tfrz646 It wasn't at the expense of his frailty and confusion, or necessarily at his expense at all. It's a funny, and even admiring, anecdote of an old actor's spirit and/or vanity.
When I saw the name Brian Cox, I was hoping for the physicist. I have no idea who this other guy is.
😅😅😅
You have to be older than 50 to understand the Sir Laurence Olivier joke. There aren't any actors like him anymore.
You'll probably think I'm misunderstanding it but, to me, the joke seemed disrespectful and was at Olivier's expense.
You really don’t
Saw the first shot and was like "I thought Stan Lee died?" And then they said Brian Cox and i thought... that's not an astrophysicist...
The day somebody came with the idea to speak fast on tv shows ,we lost 90% of the quality of them,it’s all about money,unfortunately art can’t be rushed ,we need to understand the people we are watching for any show to work,but hey,tell that to the billionaire producers ,who think they make more money if people speak so fast,and then we don’t understand a word !
😊😅😅😅😮😮y🎉 we e 4:06
How can you invite this guy? Isn't he evil?
I’ve never rated Brian Cox as a good actor or someone who was interesting, just not for me.
If Cox wasn’t a famous actor he’d be the pub bore.
As opposed to the pub boor - someone who goes out of their way to find fault with everyone.
@@godfreypigott So to clarify. Never,ever have an opinion on someone. Got it. Unless you decide I can. Got it.
@@hawsrulebegin7768 I didn't say you couldn't have an opinion. I didn't even say you couldn't express it. I simply said that people who go out of their way to be negative can expect to be judged negatively. If you're fine with that then by all means continue being negative.
@@godfreypigott but your judging me negatively for criticising someone. So how’s that work? It’s almost like you don’t hold yourself to your own aloof rules. I’m thinking maybe you have some feeling of being the judge of what’s acceptable but guilty yourself. How about getting off your moral high horse and be your true self. A sweaty pig in the dirt like the rest of us down here in bedlam.
Definitely the boar on the floor
Another self loathing 🔔 end
"With all due respect": you should have put Yulia Navalnaya on first. That was a really bad dis. Where are our priorities gentlemen?
Stephen, I love you, everybody loves you. Just had to say something.
Shame he suffers from TDS
Most Scots dislike Trump. Do they all have TDS? No, they just dislike the man, mainly due to the rubbish that comes out of his mouth.
Not a great story teller I see.
Like he said he is an actor. Someone who read lines. The author is the story teller.
Shakespear was a ghostwrites name. He had´nt the education to write for example "Julius Caesar" . The Medicis did !
who cares
Not still reciting 400 year old conspiracy fantasies?
@@emu_warrior Passive consumers
Brian's boastful is getting annoying
Brian is a woke letdown ,such a shame loved him in brave heart .
I can 100% bet that the people criticising Brian Cox and possibly their dislike for him stems from the fact that they are unionists. And Brian Cox is a staunch and proud Scottish Nationalist.😂😂😄😄😄🏴🏴🏴
Not THAT'S a moose knuckle!
ManHunter, while overshadowed by Silence.o.tLambs, is such a quality picture. the only drawback was some of the editing being "dated" even by 91' standards, and the ending just kinda happened.
I agree. Saw William Peterson in the original CSI show and said that's the guy from Manhunter. Everyone else: what's that? Manhunter scared the crap out of me. SotL grossed me out. Two very different things.
I thought for the most part ManHunter was a better movie. Overall the acting was also better in ManHunter
@grsafran Manhunter is definitely a more condensed film, and the flow is great...except for when I think the end is just... shot in.