Life after Logan Roy - Brian Cox takes up directing just before turning 80

Life after Logan Roy - Brian Cox takes up directing just before turning 8056 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GooglePauline McLeanScotland arts correspondentGetty ImagesBrian Cox has turned his attention to directing after decades in TV and filmBrian Cox is best known as the media mogul Logan Roy in the TV series Succession – a role he won in his seventies after decades in the business.Complete strangers still ask him to repeat the kind of expletive-peppered speech he blasted at his rivals and children in the show. But according to the Dundee born actor, it's the character he plays in his latest film Glenrothan which is closest to the real Brian Cox."I've played all these hard, heavy guys, and it's not who I am," he says. "I can be tough and I can be unremitting, but I try not to do it every day of my life."And Sandy is a beautiful person and a tragic person too."Glenrothan is about two brothers whose family run a whisky distillery in the Highlands. The younger brother, Donal (played by Alan Cumming) leaves for a new life in America after falling out with his father on the day of his mother's funeral. He returns home 35 years later, where his brother Sandy (played by Brian Cox) faces the possibility of selling the distillery if Donal doesn't take over.Lisa BirchGlenrothan centres on two brothers whose family run a whisky distillery in the HighlandsFilmed in various locations around Scotland, including the Stirlingshire village of Gartmore, it's described by Brian Cox as "a love letter" to Scotland, and some much needed lightness in troubled times."I think we need it desperately," he says. "To remind ourselves that we're human beings and not war machines."We're in a terrible state at the moment and we need to be reminded of our own humanity and what we are capable of, other than just being at war."The film was written by David Ashton, who wrote the radio series...