Brian Cox's Jute Journey [DVD]

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Salem to Moscow: An Actors Odyssey spans 30 years in British theatre, beginning in the 1980s, when Cox, despite success on both sides of the Atlantic, was looking for a new sense of purpose for his life and work which culminates having first directed The Crucible at the Moscow Art Theatre School. He appeared as Glover Boyd, the retired policeman father of the protagonist in the Canadian biographical drama Citizen Gangster. The actor remembers the last days of the jute industry, and considers the pioneering spirit of the jute emigrants to be something he has in common with them. Also in 2004, Cox played an alternate, villainous version of King Agamemnon opposite Brad Pitt in Troy. The Jute trade, making hessian from India’s ‘golden’ fibre, dominated Dundee for over a century, linking it with Calcutta.

a b "BRIAN COX DIRECTS UK PREMIÈRE OF JOSHUA SOBOL'S SINNERS - THE ENGLISH PROFESSOR STARRING NICOLE ANSARI AND ADAM SINA * Fairy Powered Productions". He portrayed former Speaker of the House of Commons Michael Martin in the television film On Expenses. In November 2013, he starred in the BBC television docudrama, An Adventure in Space and Time, about the creation of the British science-fiction series Doctor Who. Cox is a patron of the Scottish Youth Theatre, Scotland's national theatre "for and by" young people. winning a Satellite Award for Best Actor in Motion Picture Drama, and receiving nominations for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Actor and the AFI Award for Featured Male Actor of the Year.

What amazes me is that anyone following Scottish politics was suprised at Lib Dems turning out the way they did when they did same sort of thing in the Scottish Parliament before too. The worst of all are those who vote for a party simply because they have always voted for that party (or their father/husband/etc. That would be none of these Fascists – which brings me back to my “degenerating” of our corrupt ruling class. Having said all this, I remain a sceptic by nature, and until I’ve marked my X on the ballot paper, I’ll never say my position is absolute.

The Nationalists may be too optimistic, the Unionists fearmongering and lying, but the truth is that Scotland will be like any other European country – democratic! As for it being ‘anti-women’, that too is nonsense, as rightly pointed out by Newsnet Scotland, the animator is actually a woman herself. His performance as Petruchio in The Taming of The Shrew (1987) also garnered positive reviews and won him another British Theatre Association Drama Award for Best Actor. Cox narrated the abridged audiobook version of John Aubrey's Brief Lives (1995), Joseph Conrad's novellas Youth and Heart of Darkness (1996), and Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe (2001).

However, UK government is harming Scotland’s economy by not promoting the massive value of the oil and gas industry and putting increasing restrictions on it’s ability to hire staff in both an anti-Scotland and anti-immigrant approach.

I’m one of those creatures often claimed to be a myth by many in the No camp – an independence supporter who doesn’t follow the SNP.

In Electronic Arts' reboot of Syndicate (2012), Cox played Jack Denham, the "ruthless power behind the boardroom throne" of the malicious corporation EuroCorp.