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Brian Cox says authentic casting ignores acting as a “piece of craft”

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Succession actor Brian Cox has spoken out against authentic casting, by explaining that he thinks it ignores the “craft of acting”.Cox made reference to two films in a recent interview: A Beautiful Mind starring Oscar-winner Russell Crowe, and The Theory Of Everything, which also earned an Oscar for its leading actor Eddie Redmayne.“Both brilliant performances,” Cox told the Radio Times (per The Guardian). “My wife said: ‘Well, of course, they wouldn’t be allowed to do that now.’ I said: ‘What do you mean?’ And she said: ‘Well, they’re not disabled or mentally ill.’ But that’s wrong, because it’s acting, it’s a piece of craft.”The actor went further, saying that to cast an actor who is mentally or physically disabled in one of these parts.

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