Sir Daniel Day-Lewis has hit out at Brian Cox for starting a "conflict" about method acting

The 68-year-old actor told The Big Issue magazine: "I don't know where the f*** that came from.

"I worked with Brian Cox once and got somehow drawn into this handbags-at-dawn conflict inadvertently. Brian is a very fine actor who's done extraordinary work. As a result, he's been given a soapbox... which he shows no sign of climbing down from.

"Any time he wants to talk about it, I'm easy to find."

Day-Lewis - who worked with Cox on the 1997 movie The Boxer - expressed his annoyance at method acting being "misrepresented".

The three-time Oscar-winner said: "It p***** me off this whole, 'Oh, he went full method', thing. What the f***, you know? Because it's invariably attached to the idea of some kind of lunacy."

The Anemone star added: "I choose to stay and splash around, rather than jump in and out or play practical jokes with whoopee cushions between takes or whatever people think is how you should behave as an actor."

Cox previously branded Strong's method acting in Succession as "f****** annoying".

The 79-year-old star told Town and Country magazine in 2023: "Oh, it's f****** annoying. Don't get me going on it.

"He's a very good actor. And the rest of the ensemble is all okay with this. But knowing a character and what the character does is only part of the skill set."

Brian added of Strong: "He's still that guy, because he feels if he went somewhere else he'd lose it. But he won't! Strong is talented. He's f****** gifted. When you've got the gift, celebrate the gift. Go back to your trailer and have a hit of marijuana, you know?"

Cox also expressed fear that Jeremy, 46, could burn out at an early age - citing how Day-Lewis has twice retired from acting as a result of the intense work he does for each part.

He told Late Night With Seth Meyers: "(Jeremy) does get obsessed with the work. And I worry about what it does to him, because if you can't separate yourself - because you're dealing with all of this material every day. You can't live in it. Eventually, you get worn out."

The Churchill star continued: "Like, to me, Daniel Day-Lewis got worn out at 55 and decided to retire because (he) couldn't go on doing that every day.

"It's too consuming. And I do worry about it. But the result - what everyone says about Jeremy - the result is always extraordinary and excellent."