Daniel Day-Lewis Responds to Brian Cox’s Method Criticism

A fearsome war has begun in the United Kingdom over Method acting, and the opposing armies both have an esteemed British actor — Sir Daniel Day Lewis and OBE recipient Brian Cox — leading the charge. The irascible Cox has spent years prodding Day-Lewis in interviews over his acting techniques, largely as a way of explaining his irritation with Succession co-star (and Day-Lewis’s fellow Method actor) Jeremy Strong. Now, Day-Lewis, who is currently promoting his son’s film Anemone , wants Cox to get off his pulpit. “Listen, I worked with Brian Cox once and got somehow drawn into this handbags-at-dawn conflict inadvertently,” Day-Lewis told The Big Issue in a November 3 interview, referring to their work together on the 1997 film The Boxer . “Brian is a very fine actor who’s don