Succession star Brian Cox worried women are ‘being marginalised’ in America
By Hannah Roberts, PA Entertainment Reporter
Succession star Brian Cox has spoken about his worry that “women are being marginalised in America”, ahead of the inauguration of president-elect Donald Trump.
Mr Trump will be sworn in to his second term in the White House on Monday, eight years after he first took the oath of office.
“It’s so divided now, America”, Scottish-born Cox told ITV’s Good Morning Britain (GMB) programme.
“It is so divided, and it’s surprising, I think of poor Bobby (Robert) De Niro, who’s been beating that tambourine really strongly and very much anti-Trump.
“And I have great support for that. But it’s just, it’s crazy, really.
“But the thing that worries me more than anything else is how women are being treated, how the women are being marginalised in America.
“And we’ve seen it with the defeat of Hillary (Clinton). We’ve certainly seen it with the defeat of Kamala (Harris), and that has really made a problem, you know, where do women fit in in that society?
“And women are fighting for their own rights, the whole abortion issue.
“So I just feel very strongly that there’s a sort of strong anti-feminist thing going on.”
Despite mixed messaging on abortion rights over the years, Mr Trump has repeatedly taken credit for appointing the three Supreme Court justices who helped overturn Roe v Wade and for returning the abortion question to the US.
Cox, 78, also spoke about the “really tragic” Los Angeles wildfires, which have killed at least 27 people, and reflected on his love for the US.
“There are a lot of good people there as well. It’s not all doom and gloom, but it’s a very sad time”, he said.
Hollywood’s awards season has been put on hiatus because of the wildfires and the Oscar nominations have been delayed twice.
Asked about the forthcoming awards ceremony, Cox said: “I think they’ve got to find a new way to… I mean, it’s up to our profession to honour the truth of what’s going on.
“And I think that’s one thing that we could do during the Oscars, is to actually put some kind of hidden protest in who we are and what we are against and why global warming is a major issue.”
