Brian Coxisn’t too keen onJoaquin Phoenix’s turn inNapoleon.
A truly terrible performance by Joaquin Phoenix," Cox opined,according to theEvening Standard.
“It really is appalling.
Joaquin Phoenix in ‘Napoleon’.Courtesy of Sony Pictures/Apple Original Films
I don’t know what he was thinking.
I think it’s totally his fault, and I don’t think Ridley Scott helps him.
I would have played it a lot better than Joaquin Phoenix, I tell you that.
Brian Cox.Borja B. Hojas/WireImage
you might say it’s good drama.
No it’s lies.”
Scott, meanwhile, has produced two projects that starred Cox: 2009’sTell Taleand 2016’sMorgan.
Cox reportedly went on to mock Phoenix’s name.
“I think he’s well named,” he said.
“Joaquin… wackeen… wacky.
It’s a sort of wacky performance.”
“Braveheartis a load of nonsense,” he said.
“Mel Gibson was wonderful, but it’s a load of lies.
He never impregnated the French princess.
It is a bollocks, that film.”
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Cox criticized actors who stay in character in their downtime as well.
“Oh no, that’s all bollocks,” he said.
“It’s a kind of nonsense.
That’s what we are as actors.
We transmit energy.”
He added, “You have to do your homework.
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