Brian Cox Relished Playing A Frail, Vulnerable Churchill
Churchill is set at a crucial point in history
Actors seem to be lining up to play the wartime British prime minister Winston Churchill. John Lithgow has won awards for playing him in the TV series The Crown, and now Brian Cox delivers an award-worthy performance in the film Churchill, which is set over the week preceding the D-Day invasion in 1944.
Actor Brian Cox as Winston Churchill
"You don't get many better roles than Winston Churchill," Cox admits. "He's a great character, a very alive character. He's got so many aspects to him - the baby, the statesman, the clown. But he was also vulnerable. That's what I love about this film. It's his vulnerability, it's not the great rhetorical Churchill."
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