![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/successions-brian-cox-says-fear-of-being-poor-has-hung-over-him-through-life/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/0_new-exclusive-social-Recovered-copy-6.jpg&description=It is just two years since Brian Cox picked up his best actor Golden Globe for his role in hit drama Succession. And, by his own admission, he's more famous - and well off - today than at any point in his impressive 60-year career. Few in his position - aged 76 and at the peak of his success - would be too worried about the possibility of finding themselves penniless. But Brian, who overcame a poverty-stricken childhood to become one of the world's finest stage actors and a Hollywood favourite, admits he has a "constant fear of becoming poor again." It's one of the reasons why the actor, best known, ironically, as the foul-mouthed billionaire media mogul Logan Roy in Sky's hit drama, decided to front a new documentary about society's complicated relationship with money and wealth. Brian Cox fronts a new documentary titled How the Other Half Live (Image: Channel 5) In the three-part Channel 5 series, How The Other Half Live, which starts on Thursday, Brian investigates the growing wealth gap across the world, particularly in the UK, and his adopted home, the United States. But it also turns into a deeply personal journey as he goes back to the Dundee home where, aged eight, his shopkeeper dad died from pancreatic cancer at just 51, a tragedy which plunged the family into poverty. The series - in which the actor visits the homes of the super-rich as well as filming moving scenes in soup kitchens and food banks - is even more timely now, as the cost of living crisis pushes millions more into poverty. Brian says the painful memories of living below the breadline have meant he is both uncomfortable with money, and afraid of having it taken away. "It never leaves you," he says. "It's like the Damoclean sword that hangs over you throughout your entire life. "I never really felt it much when I was young, I was a kid and just got on with it, I was literally surviving. But as I got older I'd look at that boy and think, my God, he survived, how did he do it? And it's still a m){kind=link}
Brian Cox – who has enjoyed much success as patriarch Logan Roy on drama series Succession – has spoken about his childhood ahead of him fronting a new Channel 5 documentary about wealth
It is just two years since Brian Cox picked up his best actor Golden Globe for his role in hit drama Succession.
And, by his own admission, he’s more famous – and well off – today than at any point in his impressive 60-year career.
Few in his position – aged 76 and at the peak of his success – would be too worried about the possibility of finding themselves penniless.
But Brian, who overcame a poverty-stricken childhood to become one of the world’s finest stage actors and a Hollywood favourite, admits he has a “constant fear of becoming poor again.”