My interview has yet to begin but Brian Cox has already used the expletive that’s something of a catchphrase for the character he’s best known for: media mogul Logan Roy in Succession. I realise this is not directed at me, but at a string of pop-up windows invading his Zoom screen.

“People come up to me with their videos and say would you tell me to f--- off. OK, well, f--- off,” he says. “When you have a phrase like that, it covers a multitude of everything.”