Cold comfort
By Steve Pratt  28th November 2013  (X)
CHARLIE COX is no stranger to period projects with movies The Merchant Of Venice with Al Pacino, Casanova alongside Heath Ledger, and Stardust opposite Claire Danes, as well as TV series Boardwalk Empire to his name.
The one-off 1970s espionage thriller Legacy might be another period piece, but he is at least moving forward through the decades. âItâs the most modern I have ever done,â he says.
Based on the novel by Alan Judd, the story is set in 1974 in the middle of the Cold War, when Coxâs character, Charles, joins MI6 as a trainee spy. âHe has come from the Royal Engineers, which means he would have been posted in Belfast in the mid-1960s, and the back story we have mostly invented is that he was in the bomb disposal unit and probably lost his best friend,â says Cox.
âBecause of that, he wanted to become more involved in what is referred to as âthe front line of the warâ, be it the Cold War or Northern Ireland, and saw the move to MI6 as being part of that.â
He is still training when asked to revive his former friendship with Viktor Koslov (Andrew Scott), a Russian diplomat he knew at university, with a view to âturningâ him. But Viktor has his own agenda and reveals a shocking truth about Charlesâ family that threatens to derail him personally and professionally.
âAndrew Scott happens to be one of my favourite actors of all time,â says Cox of the Olivier Award-winning star, who plays Moriarty in the Sherlock series.
âI had never met him, but we have the same agent, and I got his number and sent a text saying, âI really hope we get to work with each otherâ. Six months later, this came up.â
He knows another of his co-stars, Romola Garai, who plays fellow agent Anna, extremely well because he introduced her to his best friend, Sam Hoare, and the two now have a daughter together.
âBefore I found out she was going to be doing it, I got a text from him saying, âBuddy, youâre going to be kissing my wifeâ.â Cox says.
In preparation, Cox watched âa few cool documentaries about the periodâ and understands the enduring fascination with the Cold War. âThe fact that there wasnât any actual fighting [in the West] is really intriguing,â he says.
âAnd I know in my life, impending doom is so much worse than something actually happening, because when it does, you can rationalise it in some way and take some action. âBut when you are waiting for something that could happen, your mind goes into all the different scenarios, and living with that [creates] a sense of vulnerability.â
He has a small but pivotal role in a movie with the working title Dracula Untold under way. âYes, more vampires, obviously we are not bored of them yet â or maybe we are,â he says. âI am only doing two scenes, but it is a bit different for me, very evil. He is described as the father of all vampires. Other than that, I am not sure whatâs coming up.â
Maybe something contemporary? âOh yeah,â says Cox. âIâd love to say âMateâ in a movie.â
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Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years - ITV - September 6, 1981 - October 25, 1981
Drama (8 Episodes)
Running Time: 60 minutes
Stars:
Robert Hardy as Winston Churchill
Siùn Phillips as Clementine Churchill
Nigel Havers as Randolph Churchill
Tim Pigott-Smith as Brendan Bracken
David Swift as Professor Lindemann
Sherrie Hewson as Mrs. Pearman
Moray Watson as Major Desmond Morton
Paul Freeman as Ralph Wigram
Frank Middlemass as Lord Derby
Sam Wanamaker as Bernard Baruch
Peter Barkworth as Stanley Baldwin
Eric Porter as Neville Chamberlain
Edward Woodward as Sir Samuel Hoare
Peter Vaughan as Sir Thomas Inskip
Robert James as Ramsay MacDonald
Tony Mathews as Anthony Eden
Ian Collier as Harold Macmillan
Marcella Markham as Nancy Astor
Walter Gotell as Lord Swinton
Richard Murdoch as Lord Halifax
Clive Swift as Sir Horace Wilson
Phil Brown as Lord Beaverbrook
Diane Fletcher as Ava Wigram
Geoffrey Toone as Sir Louis Kershaw
Norman Jones as Clement Attlee
Geoffrey Chater as Lord Hailsham
Stratford Johns as Lord Rothermere
Norman Bird as Sir Maurice Hankey
Roger Bizley as Ernst Hanfstaengl
James Cossins as Lord Lothian
Guy Deghy as King George V
Stephen Elliott as William Randolph Hearst
GĂŒnter Meisner as Adolf Hitler
Frederick Jaeger as Joachim von Ribbentrop
David Langton as Lord Londonderry
Preston Lockwood as Austen Chamberlain
David Markham as the Duke of Marlborough
Richard Marner as Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin
Llewellyn Rees as Lord Salisbury
Terence Rigby as Thomas Barlow
Margaret Courtenay as Maxine Elliott
Merrie Lynn Ross as Marion Davies
Nigel Stock as Admiral Domvile
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Drama Log 2023
This log is constructed according to ABF rules: Iâve recorded tv or film dramas viewed from Jan to Dec 2023 and graced by AB or one of his previous co-actorsâŠ. or some degree of separation âŠ.  or notâŠ.
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Maryland Eve BestÂ
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Annika Paul McGannÂ
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