Brian Cox thinks he needs therapy after 'horrible' Dexter: Resurrection role
Brian Cox plays Don Framt, AKA the New York Ripper, in Dexter: Resurrection, and he has opened up about the difficult experience.
Brian Cox thinks he might need therapy after Dexter: Resurrection.
The 80-year-old actor is no stranger to playing villainous characters like Succession's Logan Roy and Manhunter's Hannibal Lecter, but his role as Don Framt (AKA the New York Ripper) was the "weirdest experience" he's ever had on screen.
Cox told Entertainment Weekly: "Doing Dexter was the weirdest experience I’ve had as an actor, because I was playing someone who I absolutely loathed.
"I don’t buy into method acting, but this creature came out of me, which I didn’t even know I had. It makes me shudder to think.
"I can’t look at him now, because I go, ‘[Gasp] I’m doing that? Oh, no.’ I still have to have this appointment with the therapist to try and sort it out.”
In Dexter: Resurrection, which returns for a second season this week, Cox's evil character is now wheelchair bound and can't continue his killing spree.
Instead, he phones up the families of his victims to remind them of their horrific loss.
The actor added: “He can’t murder anymore, so he just gets off by teasing people.
“It’s like an actor who has been out of work for several years watching their old movies and saying, ‘Well, in 1961, I made this fantastic movie,’ and playing it again and again.”
Cox was so disturbed by the character that he struggled going onto the set of Framt's apartment, which is covered with posters of body orders.
He admitted: "It's depressing. I couldn't even go in there. I had to when I was acting in the place, but I just thought, 'This is truly horrible.' "
Cox insisted when it came to his performance, "there was no development to be done".
He explained: "I just walked in and he came out every time. And I thought, 'Maybe I should go and have therapy'.
"Because this guy is truly horrible, I really don’t like him at all, but I have to play him as he’s '[Gleefully excited] Okay, yes, great!'
"And I just thought that I cannot live with that forever, so I was quite happy to do it and get it over with."
