Something wicked this way comes
From a serial-killing cannibal to a Long Island pederast, Dundee actor Brian Cox has made a career out of playing plausible monsters. But what makes Hollywood's Mr Evil tick?
Words: Peter Ross
HIS Satanic Majesty requests the calamari...
Of course, Brian Cox isn't really the devil, but looking at his CV you could be forgiven for assuming he has some sympathy for him. In a four-decade career, the Scottish actor has played a rogue's gallery of scary monsters and super creeps, imbuing his characters with such charisma and humanity that we end up rooting for the bad guy.
Evil lies within us all
Most famously there was his appearance as Hannibal Lecter in Michael Mann's Manhunter, which preceded Anthony Hopkins' celebrated performance in Silence Of The Lambs by four years. More recently, Cox starred as the leading Nazi Hermann Goering in the Channel mini-series Nuremberg. His ability to make these characters empathetic has captivated audiences, even when they represent pure evil.
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