Brian Cox has revealed that h𝔍e was offered roles in both Game of Thrones and Pirates of the Car💎ibbean, but he turned them down.

"I’m often asked if I was offered a role in Game of Thrones – reason being that every other bugger was – and the answer is, yes, I was supposed to be a king called Robert Baratheon, who apparently died when he was gored by a boar in the first season," Cox said in his recently published memoir, Putting the Rabbit in the Hat (via ). "I know very little about Game of Thrones so I can’t tell you whether or not he was an important character, and I’m not going to google it just in case he was, because I turned it down✃.

"Why? Well, Game of Thrones went on to be a huge success and everybody involved earned an absolute fortune, of course. But when it was originally offered the money was not all that great, shall we say. Plus I was going to be killed off fairly ea✨rly on, so I wouldn’t have had any of the benefits of the long-term effects of a successful series where your wages go up with each passing season. So I passed on it, and Mark Addy was gored by the boar instead. (I lied. I did google it.)"

Cox's most recent high-profile role has been in another HBO series – he plays patriarch and media conglomerate boss Logan Roy in Succession. Season 3 aired at the end of last y🥃ear and he's been nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance at this year's awards ceremony.

As for big screen roles, Cox's memoir also mentions that he refused a role in Pirates of the Caribbean. "I turned my nose up at the part of the Governor in the Pirates of the Cari♓bbean franchise, a role that was eventually played by Jonathan Pryce," he added. "The guy who directed Pirates was Gore Verbinski, with whom I made The Ring, and he’s a lovely chap but I think I blotted my copybook by turning down the Governor. It would have been a money-spinner, but of all the parts in that film it was the most thankless, plus I would have ended up doing it for film after film and missed out on all the other nice things I’ve done."

Cox's next big-screen role will be in the political thriller The Independent alongside Jodie Turner-Smith, John Cena, and Ann Dowd, which is set to release later this year. In the meantime, check out our list of the other 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming movies to get excited about in 2022.