The crowd at the Toronto International Film Festival got more than they bargained for during a post-screening Q&A with Brian Cox.
Apparently, the Succession star, who was on hand to promote his directorial feature debut Glenrothan, opted to go commando under the kilt he was wearing — and let’s just say it didn’t go unnoticed by the crowd.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, a filmgoer sitting in the fest’s Roy Thomson Hall audience alerted Cox that he was flashing the crowd during the Q&A by putting “up his hand to warn the manspreading Succession actor he was showing on stage far more than sturdy calves as his traditional black tartan pleated skirt unceremoniously lifted.”
“Is it that bad?” Cox, 79, reportedly asked the audience member. “Or that good?” he added as the audience roared with “raucous laughter.”
“You have to wear the kilt the proper way. The kilt is designed to make you cool and free. And it’s a f—ing wonderful freedom,” the Scottish actor said before finally closing his knees.
That wasn’t the end of the wardrobe malfunctions, though. THR reports that while discussing his movie Glenrothan, Cox commented that he wanted the film to tell the story he wanted to tell, unlike other filmmakers who maybe set out to just “cover their ass… or not,” he quipped, realizing his play on words.
“What an unfortunate phrase. I’m really sorry about this,” Cox apologized to crowd. “I never thought I’d be in this position.”
But later during the Q&A, the audience still had to remind him to cover up, with calls of “Your legs! Your legs!” prompting Cox to joke, “Whose idea was it to wear these f—ing kilts? Certainly not my idea. It was the producer’s idea. They always try to f— you up, at the end of the day. They can be so vengeful sometimes.”
Cox then shouted out the film’s producer Neil Zeiger, who was also seated in the front of the theater.
“You’re probably wearing underpants,” Cox said to Zeiger, who was also reportedly wearing a kilt and nodded in the affirmative to Cox’s suggestion. “The kilt is about being free and easy, it’s hard not to wear underpants,” the actor added.
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Per TIFF, written by David Ashton (The Last King of Scotland) and Jeff Murphy (Hinterland), Glenrothan “digs deep into the complexities of familial ties and fissures, set against the proud but threatened tradition of making some of the world’s finest whisky.”
Starring Cox, Alan Cumming, and Shirley Henderson, the film follows two brothers who reunite in their home country of Scotland 40 years after a violent exchange with their father on the day of their mother’s funeral separated them.
