Brian says "I should go first, I will cox some interest out of them"

Neil says "Good idea. I will go in the middle and tyson things together"

Bill says "I will go last, because in the end is nye"

More press for his book. He talks about the Jeremy Strong article fiasco.

Brian Cox with Deadline

DEADLINE: To that, the recent New Yorker profile of Jeremy Strong, which you were quoted in, received a paradoxical reaction. In many ways, to me at least, I think Jeremy’s hard work as Kendall in Succession and elsewhere and ambition was tainted by he not coming from money. He was mocked for his methods in some circles. What’s your reaction to that piece?

COX: It was Jeremy’s idea, the whole article. He pushed for it, and you know, and people kept warning him about it. In a sense, he got hoisted by it, and I think it was unfortunate. I think he should never had gone down that road because playing Kendall has put him in a very vulnerable position.

DEADLINE: How?

COX: Because he does what he does and he does it brilliantly, but it’s also exhausting. Particularly exhausting for him, but it’s also exhausting for the rest of us from time to time. But we weather it because we love him and because the result is always extraordinary, what he does, but at the same time, there is the double-edged sword that goes with it.

Let me tell you, I have such respect for Jeremy as an actor and I just wish him well. I think he lives in a lot of pain. I mean, he creates the pain in the role he plays. That doesn’t necessarily help, but he does…there is a certain amount of pain at the root of Jeremy, and I just feel for that pain. I think that he puts himself in vulnerable positions and that New Yorker article, he placed himself in a very, very vulnerable position, and I think that he didn’t need to do that.

Last night I watched "Brian Cox Breaks Down The Science Behind Don’t Look Up", a 14 minute long YouTube interview he gave on the subject of the film and the science behind it. I had enough thoughts on the video that I thought I'd write a post about it:

First half:

Pretty good; He acknowledges and laments humanity's inherent inability to deal with hypothetical future events such as deadly comet impacts. In particular, he talks about:

• how humans don't spend much time thinking about things that are statistically unlikely to happen, and how we instead prefer to distract ourselves with sports and celebrity news;
• how, to date, most of humanity's planning surrounding these future catastrophes focuses on how much economic impact they would have (he sort of sadly admits "I suppose that's the way it has to be"); and
• how there's little incentive for humanity's various political leaders to spend any amount of time, money, or energy preparing for something that might only become a problem for the next guy.

But he then injects some positivity into the discussion by talking about some of the concrete steps that humanity is taking today to learn more about these future scenarios and prepare for them (e.g.: NASA's "DART" mission).

Second half:

The second half of the video is where I start to bristle at almost every other thing Cox says. He quotes a fellow Robert Zubrin: "Ideas have consequences, and the worst idea that we've had as a human civilization is that we have access to limited resources. The correct thing to say is that we have access to limited resources on Earth. The idea is false because the moment you lift your gaze up into space, to the asteroid belt and beyond, then you see that there are effectively unlimited resources out there.". This is one those "technically true" statements which I totally reject, because how does it in any way help us with the myriad problems we're facing down here on Earth, right now? Or put another way, what good does it do for me to tell you about all of the fantastic treasures hidden out there in space, if we're almost certainly going to kill ourselves down here on Earth before we ever reach them?

Cox then delivers what I feel like was a very foolish analogy given the current climate: "There's one fact I love which is, out there in the asteroid belt, there is enough metal to build a skyscraper a hundred stories high, and cover the entire earth in it.". L

Article: https://bigissue.com/culture/tv/eight-hollywood-a-listers-brian-cox-rinses-logan-roy-style-in-his-new-book/

Thought of this sub when I saw it. The way he shaded Michael Caine is sending me 😂