The ‘Succession’ patriarch discusses returning to Broadway for the first time in eight years to play the 36th American president in ‘The Great Society.’ A Broadway play was the last thing Brian Cox thought he’d be doing right now. He had planned to enjoy the early fall at his house in the country and relax after wrapping filming on HBO’s Succession, which aired its nail-biter season two finale on Sunday night. So when director Bill Rauch asked Cox to be a part of a staged reading of Robert Schenkkan’s The Great Society, which explores the second half of Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency, he hesitantly accepted. (Schenkkan covered the first half in All the Way, which earned Tony Awards for best play and lead actor Bryan Cranston in 2014.) When Rauch later asked if he could do a full production, Cox was skeptical, given that it left him only three weeks to prepare after the end of shooting. “It was the quickest transition ever. I didn’t think I was going to do it,” Cox said. “With the help of others I was able to achieve it. But it was really quite scary to be honest with you. To read more, click here.