star has spoken about the impact his father’s death had on him as a child.
The actor starred as Logan Roy , which came to an end earlier this year.
Fans were in shock when mid-way through the final season, leading to some of the most devastating – and important – scenes in the series.
Brian has now revealed filming his own death didn’t make him think about his own death anymore than usual, as it has been ‘omnipresent’ in his life since childhood.
Appearing on Piers Morgan Uncensored on Tuesday night, the actor was asked if filming the shock scene made him think about his own mortality.
To which Brian, 77, replied: ‘I’ve always thought about dying.
‘I lost my father when I was eight. Death was always omnipresent in my life.’
Adding that he sadly lost his older sister in February this year, he admitted he found Logan’s death ‘quite funny’ because ‘I was never there… that was someone else lying on that plane.’
The Scottish actor was born and raised in Dundee, to mum Mary Ann, a spinner, and father Charles, a police officer.
Charles died from pancreatic cancer in his childhood, with Brian mainly brought up by his three older sisters as his mother suffered from mental health issues.
Elsewhere in the programme, he said he hadn’t watched the episode of Logan’s death as ‘the idea of seeing myself dying on a plane isn’t my idea of fun.’
Referring to the shock when Logan died, he joked: ‘It’s called Succession. He had to go sometime!’
The star said he was ‘incredibly proud’ to have been part of the ‘extraordinary show’ which was ‘groundbreaking in many ways’.
He previously spoke about not having seen the episode with Logan’s death, and chose instead to pretend ‘he’s not dead, he just disappeared.’
The star told Variety’s Actors on Actors series: ‘I never watched that, by the way. I haven’t seen that episode. I don’t see very many of them, to be honest with you.
‘It’s bad enough doing it, without having to watch it.’
Uncensored airs weekdays from 8pm on TalkTV
