{"id":924203,"date":"2026-07-09T23:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T23:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/924203\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T23:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T23:10:14","slug":"brian-cox-looks-completely-different-in-new-role-on-dexter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/924203\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Cox looks completely different in new role on &#8216;Dexter&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSuccession\u201d alum Brian Cox appeared completely unrecognizable while filming the TV series \u201cDexter: Resurrection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The veteran actor, 80, was snapped in character on the set of the Paramount+ series\u2019 second season Wednesday in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York.<\/p>\n<p>Cox \u2014 who is playing Don Framt (aka the New York Ripper) in the spinoff \u2014 wore a blue polo and dark blue pants, and was seated in a motorized wheelchair.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d grown his white hair out to a longer hairstyle and sported a mustache, adding a pair of wire-rimmed glasses for the role.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Cox was spotted looking unrecognizable in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York, in his new role for \u201cDexter: Resurrection,\u201d as seen above on Wednesday. GC Images<\/p>\n<p>The actor, pictured here again in character Wednesday, plays Don Framt (aka the New York Ripper) in the second season of the series. GC Images<\/p>\n<p>In another snapshot, the actor, still in a wheelchair, is pictured behind the glass at what appeared to be a local eatery.<\/p>\n<p>Additional photos taken on June 29 show Cox wearing a white ball cap and stained, light-colored polo with dark slacks. He was seated in the motorized wheelchair in a park clutching a pair of binoculars.<\/p>\n<p>Cox\u2019s character Framt was introduced to audiences in Season 1 of \u201cDexter: Resurrection,\u201d without ever being seen on screen.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paramountpressexpress.com\/showtime\/shows\/dexter-resurrection\/releases\/?view=112633-emmy-olivier-and-golden-globe-winner-brian-cox-joins-season-two-of-dexter-resurrection-for-paramount\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">official release<\/a> from Paramount+ in April described Cox\u2019s character as \u201ca serial killer who terrorized the City years ago. Though no longer active as a killer, he\u2019s found a new way to live into his infamy by continuing to taunt the survivors of his long-ago murder spree.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Cox was previously seen on the set of the series in Queens in a different outfit, as seen above on June 29. GC Images<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cSuccession\u201d actor, pictured here filming with Michael C. Hall, was seated in a motorized wheelchair in both sets of photos. GC Images<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Cox \u2014 who was the first actor to play Dr. Hannibal Lecter in 1986\u2019s \u201cManhunter\u201d \u2014 is a longtime Emmy, <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2020\/01\/05\/succession-star-brian-cox-kisses-kieran-culkin-on-lips-after-golden-globes-win\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden Globe<\/a>, and BAFTA Award winner whose career spans both TV and film.<\/p>\n<p>Though the Scottish actor has yet to comment on the new role, he has spoken out in the past about how he approached playing serial killer Lecter \u2014 years before Anthony Hopkins took on the role in 1991\u2019s \u201cSilence of the Lambs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s so easy to play people as bogeymen \u2014 \u2018scary guys\u2019 \u2014 but the thing that\u2019s scary about someone is how acceptable they are,\u201d Cox <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womansworld.com\/entertainment\/movies\/manhunter-brian-cox-on-playing-the-original-hannibal-lecter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">told Woman\u2019s World<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what\u2019s\u00a0really\u00a0scary, because we can act with that and that makes a character frightening,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Cox, pictured above in Season 4 of \u201cSuccession,\u201d is a Golden Globe and Emmy-winning actor. David M. Russell<\/p>\n<p>The actor, seen above in June, once played Hannibal Lecter in 1986 film \u201cManhunter.\u201d  WireImage<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the interview, Cox cited serial killer Ted Bundy as an example of how he approached the character. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw a lot of those Bundy trials,\u201d he told the outlet. \u201cI tried to tap into Bundy\u2019s kind of almost acceptability.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>And despite decades of experience, Cox has been candid about the difficult job of transforming into a character. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI find it hard, and I\u2019ve been doing it for 60 years,\u201d the Scottish actor once said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/reel\/video\/p0lc34s2\/watch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSuccession\u201d alum Brian Cox appeared completely unrecognizable while filming the TV series \u201cDexter: Resurrection.\u201d The veteran actor, 80,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":924204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[119683,185,172,5923,35529,171,403,173,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-924203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-brian-cox","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-celebrity-sightings","tag-dexter","tag-entertainment","tag-new-york-city","tag-tv","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116892547623458240","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}