AceShowbiz - Brian Cox has gotten things off his chest at the Edinburgh Film Festival. When attending the event, the "Succession" leading man insisted that self-tape casting needs to stop and explained the reason why.

Calling it "disgusting," the 78-year-old noted, "What's difficult for actors these days is the lack of intimacy with the casting director." He added, "Now they want every young actor or actress to make their own self-tapes. And they have to do that without actually meeting anybody."

"In the old days, you met Marion Dougherty or any of the casting directors and there was a rapport so you had a sense of where you were going," he continued. "Whereas now young actors are in limbo and it's designed for them to stay there. It's disgusting quite frankly and it needs to stop."

Brian also argues that "television is doing what cinema used to do." He further elaborated, "Cinema has lost its place partly because of all the grandiose elements like Marvel and DC. It's beginning to implode, so you're kind of losing the plot. And television has really stolen the mark. Look at incredible things like Ripley and Succession. There are so many."

"It's become a party time for certain actors to do their stuff. You know Hugh Jackman could do a bit more and Ryan Reynolds if he wanted to could do a bit more as well," he opined. "But it's because they go down that road and it's all box office. They make a lot of money out of it. You can't knock it."

Elsewhere during the session, Brian, who was joined on the panel by WME's Alex Walton, producer Afolabi Kuti, and performer Nina Conti, teased his directorial debut. He said he is currently prepping to create a project he described as a "love letter" to his native country Scotland.

"We don't get our place artistically," he stated. "We created the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe which is probably the greatest fringe event ever. So we do that kind of thing. But for homegrown stuff, it's very very hard. Almost impossible. So I felt it was time to come back and honor not just the country but also the people who work here."

The project is slated to start shooting in two weeks. It will feature elements shot in black and white.