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Putting the Rabbit in the Hat: The fascinating memoir from the star of Succession de Brian Cox

Putting the Rabbit in the Hat: The fascinating memoir from the star of Succession

Autor Brian Cox
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 iul 2022

În volumul Putting the Rabbit in the Hat, dialogul dintre text și imaginea publică a marelui actor este unul de o onestitate brutală. Observăm cum Brian Cox nu se mulțumește doar să își enumere succesele, ci își reinterpretează întreaga existență prin prisma unui spirit critic și a unui umor caustic. Textul funcționează ca o oglindă a unei cariere monumentale, unde amintirile despre producția Titus Andronicus a RSC sau despre zilele de început la Dundee Repertory Theatre completează portretul omului din spatele figurii autoritare a lui Logan Roy. Experiența lecturii este una intensă, ritmată de anecdote savuroase din culisele Hollywood-ului, dar și de momente de o vulnerabilitate profundă, în care autorul analizează trauma pierderii tatălui și dificultățile financiare ale tinereții. Considerăm că forța acestui volum rezidă în capacitatea lui Cox de a menține un echilibru între generozitate și sinceritate tăioasă, fără a menaja pe nimeni, nici măcar pe sine însuși. Colecționarii care au apreciat Making It So de Patrick Stewart vor găsi aici aceeași calitate a reproducerii unei vieți dedicate scenei, însă într-un ton mult mai ireverențios și direct. Față de scrierile sale anterioare, precum The Lear Diaries, unde se concentra pe procesul tehnic al construcției unui personaj shakespearian, acest nou volum se extinde spre o perspectivă autobiografică totală, transformând experiența de viață într-o poveste la fel de captivantă ca orice scenariu de film.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781529416527
ISBN-10: 1529416523
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Quercus Books
Colecția Quercus
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui pasionat de arta dramatică și de istoria televiziunii moderne. Cititorul câștigă acces în mintea unuia dintre cei mai versatili actori ai generației sale, înțelegând prețul succesului dincolo de luminile rampei. Este o lectură esențială pentru fanii serialului Succession care doresc să descopere rădăcinile temperamentului vulcanic al lui Logan Roy, transpuse într-o poveste reală de supraviețuire și ascensiune artistică.

Despre autor

Brian Cox este un actor scoțian de o distincție rară, a cărui carieră acoperă peste șase decenii în teatru, film și televiziune. Recunoscut pentru profunzimea interpretărilor sale la Royal Shakespeare Company și National Theatre, Cox a intrat în istoria cinematografiei ca primul interpret al lui Hannibal Lecter în filmul Manhunter. De-a lungul anilor, a apărut în producții iconice precum Braveheart, The Bourne Identity și Churchill. În prezent, este celebrat la nivel mondial pentru interpretarea magnatului media Logan Roy în serialul Succession, rol care i-a consolidat statutul de legendă vie a ecranului.

Descriere

The long-awaited memoir by movie and theatre legend, Brian Cox.

A Guardian, Times, Sunday Times and Independent Book of the Year

*Featuring a foreword by the executive producer of Succession, Frank Rich*

From Titus Andronicus with the RSC to media magnate Logan Roy in HBO's Succession, Brian Cox has made his name as an actor of unparalleled distinction and versatility. We know him on screen, but few know of his extraordinary life story.

Growing up in Dundee, Scotland, Cox lost his father when he was just eight years old and was brought up by his three elder sisters in the aftermath of his mother's nervous breakdowns and ultimate hospitalization. After joining the Dundee Repertory Theatre at the age of fifteen, you could say the rest is history - but that is to overlook the enormous graft that has gone into the making of the legend we know today.

This is a rags-to-riches life story like no other - a seminal autobiography that both captures Cox's distinctive voice and his very soul.

'One of the best showbiz memoirs ever written... it's as funny as it is furious... Brian Cox has done everything and with this book he leaves everyone else standing' Mail on Sunday

'Absolute heaven' Sunday Times

'A hugely readable memoir from a giant of stage and screen' Mark Kermode

'A life well lived and a story well told. From first page to last Brian Cox the great actor is Brian Cox the great storyteller, and nobody is spared his sharp eye and his caustic wit, himself and some big Hollywood names included' Alastair Campbell

'Laced with his characteristic generosity, self-deprecation and cut-the-crap wisdom' Harriet Walter

'Mesmerizing' Peter Biskind

'Blisteringly brilliant' Bryony Gordon

'Funny and irreverent' The Times

Recenzii

A hugely readable memoir from a giant of stage and screen
A life well lived and a story well told. From first page to last Brian Cox the great actor is Brian Cox the great storyteller, and nobody is spared his sharp eye and his caustic wit, himself and some big Hollywood names included. He is brutally honest about who and what he likes and doesn't like, and honest too about his own failings. But what shines through every page is a man who loves being an actor and who has a deep understanding of why culture, and especially theatre and film, really matter.
Rage and vulnerability, loss and passion, self-doubt, triumphs and laughs. Brian Cox's memoir brings to mind the Blake poem "What is the price of experience ? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all that a man hath: his wife, his house his children'." What a treat and privilege to be invited in. I've never read a book that conveys the joy, grace and pain of the journey of being an actor and a human more honestly and with such straightforward blistering charm.

It is much more than a rabbit Mr. Cox pulls out of his hat. In this candid vision of his life it is revealed how it is he is able so convincingly, authentically and uniquely to play such an abundance of characters. All of them different, all of them real, all of them him.

Brian Cox is not only one of the greatest actors of his generation, he is a gentleman among men. Kind, wise, funny and intense in the best ways possible, Brian is also a wonderful tale teller as this book proves. It is an honor to call him a friend and I'm so proud of him. What a life well lived.

Wonderfully honest, touching and funny.

There has always been a coiled spring energy to Brian's acting and, now in his 70s, he has lost none of it. This book is like listening to him talk, switching from anecdote to diatribe to honest self-reflection and back to his original story before he interrupted himself. The effect is of undiminished curiosity and passion for life and work. All his observations are laced with his characteristic generosity, self-deprecation and cut-the-crap wisdom

[It] grips from the beginning - a witty prologue about the preposterousness of Steven Segal - and is the sort of riveting, candid read you might expect from the illustrious Succession actor
Simply a delight, so much so that it's tempting to consume it in one sitting [...] mesmerizing

An insightful look into his extraordinary life and career - which sees no signs of slowing down
Blisteringly brilliant
A splendid memoir [and] a deeply intelligent exploration of his chosen profession, its joyous rewards and its mind-scratching demands... Throughout, his honesty is disarming
A tale like no other, it's a seminal autobiography
Clever, perceptive ... brilliant
One of the best showbiz memoirs ever written... it's as funny as it is furious... Brian Cox has done everything and with this book he leaves everyone else standing
Cox's book is digressive and gossipy, as all celebrity biographies should be. It's also very funny, and as salty as you would expect from the man who has conclusively proved that there are at least 50 different ways of saying f*** off
The iconic Scottish actor traces his life story from his childhood in Dundee to his extraordinary career on both screen and stage
It's a book full of wonderful stories and huge insight into the whole business of acting and the workings of the human soul... absolute heaven
Cox writes beautifully... Putting the Rabbit in the Hat is a rare and brilliant thing: an honest, genuinely funny and moving memoir from a star who has a real story to tell
His writing is as compelling as any of his memorable performances
Few memoirs are as punchy and funny
A picaresque odyssey ... opinionated, forthright and sometimes self-lacerating, it's a pungent, engrossing read
Wildly enjoyable
Amusingly irreverent
I loved it. It was so refreshing to read a biography where the author was so incredibly up-front and honest
The actor best known as Succession's Logan Roy reads his irreverent memoir charting a long career on stage and screen
One of the funniest, most rip-roaring, irreverent and candid showbusiness memoirs of last year

Notă biografică

Born in Dundee, Scotland in 1946, Brian Cox has enjoyed a formidably prolific career in theatre, film and television. He has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he gained recognition for his portrayal of Titus Andronicus, as he did several years later when he played the part of King Lear at the National Theatre. Cox was the first Hannibal Lecter in Manhunter. He is also famous for his roles in, amongst others, Sharpe, Rob Roy, Braveheart, The Boxer, Rushmore, L.I.E, Super Troopers, Troy, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, X2: X-Men United, Red and Churchill. He is currently filming the third series of Succession. Putting the Rabbit in the Hat is his first book.