Summary
He got his first taste of the capital's festivals in 1965 - now Brian Cox is putting aside his film-making to support an international strand, he tells Tim Cornwell
WITH a peaked cap scrunched down over plain glasses, inconspicuously sipping a skinny latte in a Fringe venue cafe, Brian Cox is barely given a second glance by the waitress. He shows no signs of being the film star whose many roles include the sinister intelligence chief Ward Abbott in the three Bourne films, or the stage actor going so brilliantly berserk with a chainsaw on the Royal Lyceum stage - as Uncle Varick, in John Byrne's play of the same name - in 2004.See the full content of this document
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'Edinburgh Is My Spiritual Home'
Then suddenly he breaks into a high, whinnying imitation of Edinburgh's own Richard Demarco, the veteran festival personality, in a noisy performance that imagines Demarco threatening to up sticks from Edinburgh and relocate to Dundee. People at the nearby tables don't know what's hit them.
"Ricky is really the forefather of this as much as anybody else," Cox declares, fon...See the full content of this document
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