When Scottish stage and screen actor Brian Cox was first approached about playing American president Lyndon Baines Johnson in here.
, it was for a dramatic reading. Cox was wrapping the second season of the hit HBO series Succession — in which he plays outsized (fictional) media mogul Logan Roy — and, after reading Society, the follow-up to Robert Schenkkan’s Tony Award–winning play, All the Way, he was instantly game. To read more, click