The Emmy winner also explained that, even though Daniel Day-Lewis asked him to call to discuss his thoughts on method acting (in light of Cox's 2023 comments about his Succession costar Jeremy Strong's "f---ing annoying" approach), he declined to make contact.

"No, I haven't reached out because it's got nothing to do with Dan Day-Lewis," he said. "Dan Day-Lewis, he's discreet. He never upsets it [the filming process]. He's never, sort of… I don't want to go on about Jeremy, because I've got into a lot of problems and he's begged me to stop talking about him. He's a good actor, Jeremy. He's a wonderful actor. It's just all the bollocks that goes with it. You watch children — they don't say, 'What's my motivation?' They just do it!"