'I’m biased, but it’s so beautifully directed' Brian Cox and Nicole Ansari-Cox on the Fringe show She/Her, women, and independence 👇
NICOLE Ansari-Cox has just returned from a relaxing massage. She’s calm but cheerful and shows none of the anxiety that performers just a week away from opening at the Fringe usually exhibit.
He’s to be found under Logan Roy’s designer baseball cap, filming the fourth season of Succession, while Nicole has been head down in rehearsals in Edinburgh. “She said, ‘I have four days, what would you like to do?’. The actor in me immediately thought of all the plays I’ve wanted to do over the years, but then I realised this was a huge opportunity to do something original.”
Brian has always been open about the influence of women in his life from an early age, being raised by his older sisters following the early death of his father and his mother’s chronic mental illness that followed that bereavement. He believes that finally we are moving away from creating women’s roles and staging women’s stories that immediately pigeonhole them.
“For Edinburgh I’m delighted to be joined by an incredibly diverse and strong group of women. We have musician and singer Mairi Campbell, the Scottish-Kenyan actress Kananu Kirimi who Brian and I have supported in her drama training. We also have harpist Ada Grace Francis. I wanted a trans actor and turned to Alan Cumming for a recommendation. Through him we have found the amazing performance-maker, Callie Rose Petal.
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