Yahoo News Kate Beckinsale shares 'fatherly' relationship with Brian Cox: 'I love that man'
They starred together as father and daughter in Prisoner's Daughter
Watch: Kate Beckinsale explains her relationship with Brian Cox
Kate Beckinsale's phone background is a picture of Succession star Brian Cox.
The two actors have worked together in the past, firstly back in 1994 in Prince of Jutland and more recently in Prisoner's Daughter.
Appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the TV host noticed Beckinsale's unusual phone background: "Backstage we were saying 'hi' and I saw your phone screensaver and it was a photo of Brian Cox."
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The Underworld star responded: "Yes, it is. I love that man, and I love Succession, but I love that man."
She added: "I did a movie with him a couple of years ago and he’s sort of vaguely been in my life since I was a child anyway, because he was best friends with my godfather.
"I love him so much and he’s got this strange kind of testicular pull that when I am in a low moment he feels a call in a fatherly way and calls me up and pulls me out of trouble."
The godfather Beckinsale references is Harry Potter star David Bradley who was best friends with her actor father Richard and they were also both Aston Villa fans.
Beckinsale also said that she finds it "comforting" to look at her phone and see Cox.
Beckinsale previously discussed her relationship with Cox last year where she said: "What I like is that he doesn’t like bull****, and I f***ing hate bull as well. And so he’s not going toe a party line. He’s just going to say what he thinks."
She added: "If you’ve read his memoir, he’s rigorously honest about himself and his own failings as a parent and failings in various areas."
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