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Post by eaz35173 on Feb 12, 2014 8:38:17 GMT -5
www.oe24.at/leute/international/Pierce-Brosnan-Macht-Spass-ein-Sexsymbol-zu-sein/132053134Translated via google ... Brosnan: "It's fun to be a Sex Symbol"
With plenty of water and occasionally a glass of red wine he keeps crisp. His 60 years can be seen Pierce Brosnan in barely - he is still crisp and sexy as his time as a secret agent James Bond. 2001, the actor was even voted the Sexiest Man Alive - for Brosnan a great honor, but it does not take too seriously this item also. "It's fun to be a sex symbol. I have taken the title with dignity and humor," he says in an interview with blick.ch and also reveals his beauty secret. Woman gives him creams
"I drink lots of water, do not begrudge my red wine. And then there's my wonderful wife Keely, she constantly gives me any creams that I command. I could become a beauty salon open," laughs the Hollywood star. "What is certainly important to feel good and work well for others, positive thinking is," says Brosnan, of his role as 007 has much to be grateful. Only by the James Bond movies, he was a superstar. "The Bond character was a gift for me, of which I still benefit. I would embodies him to stay longer, but the contract ran out," said Pierce, who in the last year with the cancer death of his daughter a heavy blow to had to cope with. "It gave me a different, very direct relationship to death. These dramas have also taught me to love life even more and celebrate. Knowing that it is just so extremely fragile."
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Post by eaz35173 on Feb 12, 2014 8:44:33 GMT -5
From Bild ... www.bild.de/regional/berlin/pierce-brosnan/drei-fragen-an-pierce-brosnan-34644210.bild.html(Translated by Google) Ex-007 is now living relaxed seasideBy PATRICIA Driese Berlin - ! Bond in Berlin Pierce Brosnan (60) presented "A Long Way Down" (from April 3 in the cinema) before - a gorgeous black comedy in which he plays a moderator who wants to jump from the roof, because of the success absent. IMAGE: How important is fame and success?
Pierce Brosnan: 'As a young actor I wanted to be famous and play in movies - that I have achieved. But you have to ask yourself always: How could I go on without fame? I could! " IMAGE: your life in Hawaii?
Brosnan: "We have a cottage by the sea. My day: I make coffee, watch the waves. Then I paint, go surfing. Meet film people, cycling, home. What's for dinner? It's a simple, almost stuffy life. " IMAGE: your resource in times of crisis?
Brosnan: "My faith. I am a Catholic. This is all that remains one, if your heart by four clock is a dark spot in the morning and you're wearing the weight of the world on your shoulders. No one can escape the suffering of life. Such is life. "
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Post by piercebrosnanhot on Feb 20, 2014 20:32:20 GMT -5
Film-By-Film: Pierce Brosnan In His Own WordsFrom Bond to banana-selling by Bron-Hom himself... Suave, sophisticated and almost absurdly handsome, Pierce Brosnan has been making ladies' hearts quiver since his very first film role in The Long Good Friday back in 1980. In celebration of his latest movie, the genuinely delightful Danish romance Love Is All You Need (out this weekend), the man known by Adam And Joe aficionados as Bron-Homme guides us through some select moments of his career, with an extra bonus titbit at the end for any Breaking Bad fans out there... [1] The Long Good Friday (1980) Did you realise when you were shooting the final scene of The Long Good Friday just what a moment it was? No, not at all. I didn’t even know what the movie was, to tell you the truth, because I never read the script. It was my first movie offer and my agent just said I should show up somewhere in Tottenham at the crack of dawn. I rocked up and [director] John McKenzie said, “Okay, great. You pick him up. You give him a look. You stab him.” Daragh O’Malley and I showed up like two good Irishmen and make a bomb or we’d kill some people. I had really no idea what was going on – I was so pleased with the gig. I was in the movies, and I was a huge fan of Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren – that was it really. We did that scene at The Savoy. I got to work around 5 o’clock in the evening and I thought, “God, I really want to drive the car. If I’m driving the car I’m going to look so cool. I’m going to look like Steve McQueen. I’m going to be looking in the mirror, giving my best pose…” Then John McKenzie said, “Right, you’re in the front passenger seat. Hide behind the chair and then pop up.” I thought, “Fuck it. I don’t want to be doing that. I want to be driving the car looking cool.” Little did I know… John McKenzie drove the car and I sat beside him while [cinematographer] Phil Meheux was in the back seat with the camera. Bob Hoskins was a piece of white tape on a box. We drove down The Strand and McKenzie called action. “Okay,” he said, “You come up now. You've got him. You've got the mother. You look at him.” And he talked me through the scene and I stared at this piece of white tape. Actually, you can get away with so much on a film, then sometimes not a lot… It really is a classic film. And what a brilliant soundtrack! When Bob Hoskins is in Heathrow and the saxophones are raving out, you just get chicken skin, you really do. [2] Taffin (1988) Are you aware your line from Taffin – “Then maybe you shouldn’t be living here!” – is an in-joke amongst Adam & Joe radio show fans? No, I didn’t know that. This is the first I’ve heard about becoming part of this… mythology, but there you go. Great. Wonderful. I really do have to look at the film again – I haven’t seen it since I made it all those years ago. I can’t even remember when I said it or how I said it. And they call me “Bron-Hom?” I love it! I’ve had worse nicknames, that’s for sure. [3] The Lawnmower Man (1992) You were cast as a scientist in The Lawnmower Man. Did you think this was going to become a recurring theme in your career? Obviously it comes back again with Mars Attacks!... It’s typecasting I suppose. I had no idea about the world of virtual reality – I didn’t know what the hell [director] Brett Leonard was talking about. I needed a job. I had to pay the rent that month. This gig came in. Leonard was this crazy dude: six foot four, hair all the way down his back, brilliantly funny and charismatic… he created this fantastic world which has, now, in the 21st century, finally come to fruition. It has a certain relevance within our society today. The interconnectedness of us all. The whole virtual world that we inhabit now. It was ahead of its time. All the phones are ringing. That’s the last line of that movie, when you see the old Bakelite phones sitting there. The cinematography on that is really cool... I did watch it a year or so ago with my sons and it really holds up because of the cinematography and also because of the storytelling. [4] Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) How do you go about sharing the screen with Robin Williams? It’s like trying to play the kazoo with Duke Ellington. I wish I could say that was my line but it’s not – it’s Robin bloody Williams’. I read it this morning in the New York Times in his tribute to [much-loved comedian and Mork & Mindy co-star] Jonathan Winters. I just let Robin Williams have his time. All you can do is just try and react to him and try and stay in the moment. You say your line as sincerely as possible and hope for the best that he’ll stick to the script. It’s a classic film and one I’m very proud of. Was there a problem with corpsing? Yeah. There was a lot of that – that’s part of the joy of working with the man. The shrimp scene at the end of the movie has become quite a classic, so I’m told. Then there was standing on top of a diving board at 7am with 400 extras staring at you, you’re 35ft up in the air and you’re meant to do a beautiful swan dive. You go out and lift your arms up and they shout “Cut!” and you have to crawl your way back along the board. It’s not a groovy feeling. [5] GoldenEye (1995) Did you ever pinch yourself when you were in that tank? Did you ever think, “Is this really happening?” Completely. Absolutely. It’s a strange world to enter into because it was a world I never wished for or desired. It just came my way and it seemed like a golden opportunity to go do it. Then it disappeared. As far as I was concerned, it was never to be part of my life again. You have the responsibility to this character and it’s daunting, it’s overwhelming, it’s completely exhilarating. Being in that tank really was a pinch yourself moment. You live through many of those on each film. You’re playing this iconic character that you know will be seen by just about everyone on the planet – everyone knows who the man is and what his job is. You just hope you get right and you hope you save the world. I went on to do it four times and I seemed to get away with it. I had nothing but the greatest gratitude for my time playing him: the joy of it all was making the movies. The joy of it was reading the script and thinking, “How do I fit into this, how am I going to pull this off?” Then going to work and being bedazzled by the artistry of the stunts, the sets, the whole tableau. [6] Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) We recently interviewed Jonathan Pryce for the Empire Podcast and he mentioned that the script for Tomorrow Never Dies was a changeable one… It was absolutely harem scarem, that script. There were fires being lit every which way, you didn’t know where to turn. It really was a mad caper. It started for me on the very first day with the temperature way above 100ºF and into the stratosphere, but we had to start. I was being strangled in the cockpit of a plane, I think… I still don’t know what the movie’s about. I honestly couldn’t tell you. I remember Jonathan being his acerbic self and that was very entertaining. That did me no favours when I was standing there trying to give my best Bond impersonation. It was just hopelessly insane at times. Thank God for Michelle Yeoh. She has remained a great friend. A very impressive lady. [7] Mars Attacks! (1996) Was it your idea in Mars Attacks! to act with a lit pipe in your mouth throughout? Yes indeed. It’s something which comes out of repertory theatre: when in doubt, have a prop. It’s completely silly but that’s the world of Tim Burton for you. He’s a unique player on the stage... there’s no one like that man. It was a joy to do it. I remember the first day of filming so well, when we were in the White House, in the Oval Office. Mr. Jack Nicholson – the big man – was there and the first shot was on him. So he looks at us all. We’re all sitting there. There are eight actors, eight fairly well-established actors, sitting there, staring at him. Suddenly, Jack said, “God damn, it’s getting hot in here.” He was so open and honest. Everyone gets nerves. It’s the joy of it. You see somebody challenged. But he was so gracious and so cool and so… Jack. I was speechless that morning, working with him. I was having a cup of coffee by the bagels, desperately trying to remember my damn lines. Suddenly I look up and it’s Jack. “Hey Pierce,” he says. I keep stirring my coffee. Jack Nicholson is talking to me and I’m dumbstruck. Inside my head, I’m yelling at myself: “Jesus, just shake the man’s hand.” I couldn’t move. I was immobilised by the Jack-ness of it all. [8] The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) Were you aware that the sex scene in The Thomas Crown Affair would go on for so long? No. It’s a little like in Ben-Hur it must’ve just said “Chariot Race”. For The Thomas Crown Affair, it just said “Love Scene”. I didn’t know it was going to go on so long... [director John] McTiernan was being brilliantly provocative and sexy. We found each other at the right time with that movie. I’d actually done his first film called Nomads. We struck up a relationship and then many years later I came round with this script. I went to him and he said yes. Then you end up with a lovely piece of alchemy like that, as dangerous as it was trying to enter into the world of Steve McQueen. How do you act the king of cool? I was so damn nervous before that movie came out in New York. I remember having panic attacks in taxis and thinking, “Jesus Christ, what have we done?” I came out in hives or something. I couldn’t breathe. It was terrifying. [9] The Tailor Of Panama (2001) When you moved away from Bond, you took a spy role in The Tailor Of Panama, but one with a very different tone… For me, the Bond that I played was caught in a time warp between what had gone before and what Daniel does now. I always felt the restraints of the storytelling and it just didn’t have enough bite to it. It was in the writing. The ghosts of Sean and Roger were there for me. It was hard to pull away from that because they were written in such a vernacular of what had gone on prior. The Tailor Of Panama just seemed right. I loved John Boorman and his work was so captivating. I thought, “Why not shake it up here? Why not play in the same vain, the same idiom, so to speak, of storytelling, juxtaposed alongside playing James Bond?" [10] The Matador (2005) There’s a scene in The Matador with you wearing nothing but ankle high boots, black pants and a ‘tache. Was that in the script or was it a spur of the moment thing on set? Were you prepared for that? I was prepared for it in the sense that I produced the movie and had a hand in crafting the storyline, also filleting out some of it which was just completely over the top. That scene was already there, and it survived the cuts. We lived in that Mexico hotel so everybody knew me in the lobby as “zero-zero-siete”. Then one day they saw the cameras. It was a long dolly shot and I stood behind a screen in my knickers. The boots came from Catherine [Marie Thomas], the wardrobe designer. When she talked to me the first time round she said, “So, what do you see the character wearing?” I said, “Kick-ass cowboy boots, please.” She found these Italian, tall, pointy, almost clown-like shoes. When I stood in my dressing room in my knickers and boots it just looked so crazy stupid. This guy is out of his brains on drugs and booze and uppers and downers and killing people and… “Let’s go for a swim.” It seemed to make sense. My producing partner Beau St. Clair said, “You don’t have to do this.” I said, “Beau, listen, we’ve come so far. If not now, when? Come on. Let’s just do it.” The Matador was underappreciated, I feel. The people who put it out there never really got behind it. It’s such a shame, but it does happen. I remember that season the studio had other films they were working harder on promoting and I thought, “You gotta be kidding! You gotta be kidding to not be paying attention to this one!” They just didn’t. But there you go. [11] Seraphim Falls (2007) Had you worked with Liam Neeson before Seraphim Falls? No, but we had known each other. We always had nice encounters along the way. I’d always wanted to a western. He had as well. That’s the way it happened. You’ve got one hell of a moustache in that film. It’s got good twiddle. I grow good twiddle. “He was known for his twiddling.” [12] Mamma Mia! (2008) Did you have any idea just how huge Mamma Mia! would be? None. None whatsoever. I thought it would find an audience, of course – I knew it had an audience and a very strong following before I signed up. I had experienced the mightiness of ABBA in their day, but never did I know or believe that it would be such a monster hit. It was criminal how much fun we had on that film. Once you got over the agony of singing and the sheer fear of opening your mouth to sing something like S.O.S., the rest was all gravy. It was just the company of Meryl. Meryl led the way. She was just a joy to behold each and every day in her love of the piece and her own courage getting out there and singing. We became a company. [Director] Phyllida Lloyd was very wise in having us all go to Pinewood Studios each and every day. That was one of the surprises too. I said yes to this gig. I thought, “Fantastic. This will be great.” Then, of course, I end up going to work on the first day and realise I’m going back to Pinewood Studios. I felt, “Oh Jesus Christ, this could be interesting.” I went through the gates at Pinewood and I prayed they didn’t give me my old dressing room. They said I’d be in the Stanley Kubrick wing instead. “Thank God for that!”, I thought. So they gave me this beautiful dressing room, and I went in and pulled the curtains back and… there was the 007 soundstage right outside. 007 was back all over again. [13] Love Is All You Need (2013) Watching Love Is All You Need, there’s a feeling that everyone involved really enjoying themselves, really loving their work. Oh, completely. Mamma Mia! and Love Is All You Need are like bookends on the bookshelf really. They play in the same heart and they have the same look and style in some respects. There’s a certain alchemy that happens on films and it certainly happened on Love Is All You Need. It started with the script, with [director] Susanne Bier and her company of actors, and I was somehow embraced – me, an Irishman – in the company of these great Danish players. It was just a real joy to go to work each day and tell the story. It had heart and it had meaning. Everybody could identify with the yearnings of these people: the infidelities of the husband; the son who doesn’t known his own sexuality, the young couple getting married… then, front and centre, a woman fighting for her life with breast cancer and a man who’s closed down emotionally because of his own loss and trauma. That in a setting like Sorrento is just a joy. Also it’s not every day you get to play a fruit and veg magnate. It’s not your typical Pierce Brosnan role… I used to run a fruit and veg stall, actually. I used to have one down in Raynes Park. There was a guy that I worked for and he’d bring in all the produce and I’d put out all the bananas. The backwards bananas in the front. And the spuds. That’s how I fed the family, actually! [14] A Long Way Down (2014) photoLast year, we saw a picture on Twitter of you and Aaron Paul at a Radiohead gig. Are you a Breaking Bad fan? I am. I wish I was a complete connoisseur of it, but I don’t watch much TV. I got through the first season before working with Aaron, but then I left it in the company of my family who just devoured it… Aaron and I are doing a film coming out later this year called A Long Way Down, a Nick Hornby story. It’s a quartet of players: Toni Collete, Imogen Poots, Aaron and yours truly. We’d all bought tickets. We’re all big Radiohead fans. Aaron took a photo and it just went viral big time. I call that my "Evil Face". My 29-year-old son does the same face, actually – he’s an actor too. When I first saw him do it I thought, "Shit, that’s the stuff that I do. That’s one of my poses."
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Post by eaz35173 on Mar 12, 2014 8:01:53 GMT -5
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Post by juljustik on Mar 12, 2014 16:19:04 GMT -5
Thanks for the link, eaz!
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Post by eaz35173 on Mar 14, 2014 14:35:14 GMT -5
Interview from the German issue of Playboy ... www.playboy.de/stars-stories/interview/interview-mit-pierce-brosnan (translation by Google Translate) INTERVIEW WITH PIERCE BROSNAN "I was always an outsider" He sees again after a perfect gentleman, which is not surprising. No 007 was ever so elegant as Brosnan, always coiffed fresh and almost a little smooth. The handshake of the 60-year-olds, however, is the strength of an alpha's. Fittingly, he "Hotel de Rome" only once scared away his PR advisor at the meeting in Berlin that wants to shout out that he will be asked no uncomfortable questions. The would offer himself in his new film, "A Long Way Down" (from April 3 in the cinema), quite to. In the Nick Hornby-film he plays a failed host who wants to escape from a private misery to suicide. But Brosnan can not patronize: "Why someone should sit in the corner? The only distracts me from. "Clear statement. And not the last for today. PLAYBOY: You picked your tragicomedy "A Long Way Down" is a pretty touchy subject. Brosnan: Oh yes, as I sat today in the morning over my cornflakes, I thought to myself, "My goodness ., suicide, but that will be great to talk about it in an interview "- death, death, death, the whole time I'm going to miss about it. Playboy: Consider's Just as a therapy session. Brosnan: Good idea. So I can save up the cash for the analyst. PLAYBOY: Do you need to? Admittedly, you have privately experienced several deaths. Your first wife died of cancer and in the summer of 2013, your stepdaughter. Brosnan: I have luckily my profession and art. I have gone back to the painting, as was my late wife in the final stages of their illness. All my equipment was unused in the closet. I have brought out and started to spontaneously one night. All my emotions came out raw and undisguised. It was my way I deal with this deep darkness of approaching death. Playboy: From Emperor Marcus Aurelius the quote: "Not death should be feared, but that you will never begin to live." Would you agree with that? Brosnan: Absolutely not. You shall live with courage, full of generosity and passion. I'm trying to translate for me. So I would not come to the same thought as my protagonist in the film. The is full of vanity and self-loathing. And when he still goes to prison, he is not finished with this humiliation. PLAYBOY: In your life you have but also quite nice to nibble. They grew up in various foster parents in Ireland, because your mother was trained in England. As then came the age of eleven to her, you were pestered as Irishman of your classmates. Brosnan: But I have somehow managed to cope with it. If you overcome obstacles, then gives you the a new lust for life. So I have achieved anything. Twice I immigrated, first from Ireland to England, then from England to America. I also have no good education, at 16 I'm gone off. I was always an outsider. But that gave me the energy to fling myself creatively. PLAYBOY: Even with women? Brosnan: A bit of it has already lasted. As a Catholic schoolboy in Ireland, I have learned to be ashamed for all the bad thoughts. I was torn between heaven and hell. It was terrible, a perversion. That's why I'm long remained good and innocent. I'm lucky that I went with eleven to England. There I discovered my geography teacher. Oh, you wonderful narrow pencil skirt. I still see in my mind's eye as she stood in front of the blackboard. .'s Not that I had anything with her Playboy: Who was the first girl that meant something to you? Brosnan: Angela Grossmann - a German who went to school with me, shortly after I came to England. Also with her was nothing. But I liked them - and me too. She was really pretty. And when one of the boys, who heckled me, duke about them, I gave him a beating. As a result, I got to feel the cane our director. PLAYBOY: Was it bad? Brosnan: I had a thick skin, I was the beating of the Catholic monks used to. In comparison, the in England nothing (laughs). PLAYBOY: Can you really laugh? Some children will be broken by so much physical violence. Brosnan: Read George Orwell times essay "The Joys of Childhood" about his experiences in English boarding schools. This brutality I have not experienced. For me, there was still a certain romance, after all, I lived in the countryside and in the circle of a family. PLAYBOY: Were you the Catholic faith beaten out of him? Brosnan: I'll keep the faith with which I was born. Without my Christianity I would be lost. It has served me well, even during the difficult times when I was struggling with the loss of loved ones. But I ultimately a whole potpourri of faiths. Once I was at a meeting with the Dalai Lama. Someone asked him what was his religion, and he said: ". Kindness, goodness," I can only agree. Do good, be kind to people, try to achieve the best. PLAYBOY: But you already believe in God? Brosnan: Yes. I think that there is a higher power. Sometimes I also think there is nothing. One last breath, and that's it. No heaven, no hell. But I do not believe that. There must be because a higher level of consciousness. This conviction gives me inner peace. But do not ask me how exactly it looks like. I'm not a great philosopher, so far is not enough my intellectual horizon. PLAYBOY: That is, in your opinion, it is not over with death? Brosnan: Right. Because I can see the people I've lost sense. Sometimes I have the feeling that they would guide me. But such a thing can not be explained rationally. PLAYBOY: And if it should be for once so far. . . Brosnan: Then I hope to go the courage, dignity. PLAYBOY: Do something that does not happen so fast? Make check-ups? Brosnan: Definitely. There always comes a moment when I hear the snap of the rubber glove behind me: "Oh, sir, we really need so much in-depth" (laughs) But it's important that you take care of yourself. I have children, I will soon go on for a while. So I exercise. We live in California by the sea, as I paddle my boat. I go hiking, bike riding Playboy: And I hope you have also fun with your wife. Brosnan: Of course. We are after all, already 20 years together. It is a blessing that she is part of my life. I'm already up at six to telephone an hour her. PLAYBOY: It is not with you? Brosnan: No, it is in our children. She has always given me the freedom to pull away in the world and do my thing. PLAYBOY: Are they also give you the freedom to try other women? Brosnan: Just in front of the camera. With this kind of escapade she handles - but just so. PLAYBOY: What's up with your sons? One is 17, the other 13 The would have long since discovered the opposite sex. . . Brosnan: Oh yes, our house is filled with beautiful young girls. Playboy: Enter your guys tips for love life? Brosnan: I do not know if they can use it to do much. Fortunately, my wife takes care of such issues. I'm just saying that they should be aware. We do not want that she and the girls get into trouble. And to behave like gentlemen. PLAYBOY: Is there cause for concern? Brosnan: I'm afraid so, because the two can already be quite bold. On the other hand, I was at that age also. Some of them are a true reflection of me. Until now they have hired yet nothing bad. PLAYBOY: Maybe you should just be at home more often and they look at your fingers. Brosnan: I try too - but not to control them. You'd need their freedoms. I just want to be with my family because it is the most important thing in my life, without question. Nothing else gives me such joy. PLAYBOY: What about your films? Brosnan: The coming and going. Of course, it gives me great pleasure to make them, I love this process, but when one is ready, then I'm moving on. Some of them work, some do not. Of course I hope the former, but the importance of this can not compare with my family. If you experience something so wonderful with 60, then you want to enjoy. PLAYBOY: But you do not enjoy your status in the media world? Are you really free from vanity? Brosnan: There may have been times when I have a bit until they exit. In the times of "Remington Steele" I tried to be like Cary Grant - that was my role model. And promptly so I had success, landed on the front pages of magazines and was considered "the most erotic man". That was a prop for my ego. But for that I also got several blows from. PLAYBOY: By whom? Brosnan: From the media, from the producers who do not want to give me certain roles. And I had to move my cock and run a little bit of conscience: How do I get the image that I have created, and the acting style for which I am known to get rid of? Playboy: Seen you would have been glad to have you as Bond announced. Brosnan: Well, the role was a rigid corset, since you can not show all the power that lies within you. About the way how my application is complete, you can discuss. But it feels now as to when it would have been in a different era. And in any case, Bond was a gift that I now Hungering. This has shot me into the stratosphere of international cinema. But after that I had to try to develop myself and to explore a whole new kind of films and roles - as in "Long Way Down". Had I tried to do the same, then I would have been delivered. PLAYBOY: What do you think because actually from the new James Bond? Brosnan: I must say that I have long made it a wide berth. Once I wanted to get involved in "Casino Royale". Since I was on the plane, 11,000 feet above the ground, and I thought: That's a good distance. So I turned on the movie on-board monitor, but after a few minutes he stopped. They repaired the whole thing, but then the image was gone. On the third try then it froze at a close-up of Daniel (Craig, note), and I thought to myself: Leave it alone. The next Bond, I then do not watch. PLAYBOY: What about "Skyfall"? Brosnan: Since there was no escape. Every day when I left the hotel when filming "Long Way Down", drove a bus passing with a picture of Daniel. When I turned on the radio, what was? Adèle, "Skyfall." So I said to myself: Let's look at this film now. PLAYBOY: And? Brosnan: He was brilliant. Sam Mendes has promoted Bond to a whole new level. And Daniel is a great, committed actor, a huge bundle of energy. PLAYBOY: You really mourn the whole not afterwards? Brosnan: Absolutely not. Bond came to the perfect moment in my life, and this phase is complete. Career default, this is now a golden time for me. In a film like "Long Way Down" I'm very, very proud. I have an amazing life for a man who left school at 16 - with nothing but a folder full of drawings and pictures. PLAYBOY: How are you, anyway ended up with this portfolio because in acting Brosnan: This was the result of several random encounters. I had started with a training as an illustrator, while I got to know people who took me to an experimental theater. Finally, I then got a scholarship for a professional theater school. I also wanted to be an actor at heart. I wanted to be Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, Steve McQueen. When I saw James Bond, I said to myself: "That would be something for me." Those were dreams, yes. But a man is what he dreamed of. PLAYBOY: But now you want so rather spend time with your family. How about retirement? Brosnan: That would be nothing. What should I do then? I need something to do. PLAYBOY: You could paint yes. Brosnan: That's just my private pleasure. I would earn no money. I do not sell my pictures - and then only for charitable purposes. Besides, I would not want to expose myself to the boot kicking the criticism. From the movie produced, I know how brutal the jump around with you. And as an artist you are even more sensitive. PLAYBOY: Would you have a talent for businessman? Brosnan: Absolutely not, but I have not the head. I need the romance of life. And I want to savor every second. Especially now that I know how precious it is. If you experience it, as someone who is close to you, do his last breath - this is such a tremendous experience. With this knowledge, you try to go on to do good and do good. PLAYBOY: Would that be the right word for this final therapy session? Brosnan: I would happy. But to be honest, I know no longer what I have said it all.
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Post by eaz35173 on Mar 18, 2014 11:10:20 GMT -5
A little gem that was never published from 1987... multiglom.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/pierce-brosnan-the-1987-interview/The Anne Billson blog PIERCE BROSNAN: THE 1987 INTERVIEW POSTED ON MARCH 18, 2014 In 1987, The Observer sent me to Ireland to interview Pierce Brosnan on and around the set of Taffin, which was then being filmed at Ardmore Studios.
For some reason, the piece never ran; Taffin didn’t generate a lot of interest in the media, so it might have been that, or it might just have fallen between the cracks, as articles as sometimes wont to do. I had completely forgotten about it until going through a crate of papers the other day, and quite enjoyed reading it again after all this time, so I don’t think it was spiked as unpublishable. But who knows.
Ironically, the film probably enjoys more name recognition now than it ever did around the time of its release, thanks to this line having been reborn as an internet meme, courtesy of Adam and Joe.
This interview is pre-Bond Brosnan, and quite poignant, I think. It must have seemed to him as though other guys were having all the luck – Timothy Dalton had been cast as Bond in his place, and Bruce Willis was reaping the rewards of Glenn Gordon Caron’s talent after the writer had parted company with Remington Steele and gone on to create Moonlighting. More tragically, Brosnan’s first wife (Cassandra Harris, who was present in the background during our interview) was to die of cancer a few years later.
As everyone knows, Brosnan did indeed go on to play James Bond, in GoldenEye in 1995 – and play him very well, I thought. But his next three outings as 007 (Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day) were greeted with increasingly hostile receptions, and for some reason, many people seemed to hold the actor personally responsible for the decline in the franchise’s quality. The role of Bond, like all such iconic roles, is a poisoned chalice. It makes you mega-famous, but you can never escape it, and audiences will never, ever let you forget it. Your subsequent films, no matter how varied, tend to be viewed as James Bond slumming it, and you are never quite taken seriously as an actor – at least not unless you manage to stick around until old age has taken the shine off your looks.
I liked Brosnan as a person when I met him – he was charming, and disarmingly open while clearly trying manfully to be diplomatic – but I have also liked him as an actor in Nomads (John McTiernan’s first film), The Deceivers, Mars Attacks!, Dante’s Peak, The Thomas Crown Affair, Grey Owl, The Tailor of Panama, The Matador, Seraphim Falls and The Ghost. (I’ve left out some films I didn’t like, and cameos.) I didn’t like him in Mamma Mia!, but nor did I like anyone else in that, and heaven knows he was game enough.
I have never watched a single episode of Remington Steele.
But I think Pierce Brosnan is a better and more versatile actor than he is usually given credit for. He takes creative risks, and seems prepared to send up or undermine his own image (The Matador and The Ghost are two such examples). I’d love to see one of the Young Turks of contemporary cinema (paging Tarantino – even though he’s no longer young) write for him the sort of preconception-busting role he could really sink his teeth into.
The interview begins after this picture of Brosnan in Taffin.
The receptionist at Ardmore Studios in County Wicklow lowers her voice. ’For God’s sake don’t call him Bronson,’ she says, ‘or that’ll be the end of you.’ Thirty minutes later, outside Healey’s pub in Wicklow Town, a schoolgirl confides that she is hoping to get Mr Bronson’s autograph. There are, in fact, a lot of autograph hunters hanging around outside Healey’s, where a scene from the film Taffin is being shot. They’re all after a glimpse of the Big Star who has flown in from Los Angeles to play the lead role. Pierce Brosnan, aka Remington Steele, aka the man who was so nearly the next 007, is back on his native soil. Brosnan’s pet hate is people getting his name wrong. ‘Well,’ he says, ‘you have to live with that if you’re going to have a quirky name like mine.’ As far as forenames go, Pierce (‘as in the verb to pierce‘) is probably about as macho as you can get, but it’s not the product of some Hollywood PR’s imagination; the name has been in his family for three or four generations. As for Brosnan, that’s a common enough handle in County Kerry. Brosnan has been given the afternoon off. He’s spending it in some style, sipping from a tube of lager as he relaxes on the terrace of the 18th Century mansion in which he and his family are staying. ‘We’ve rented so many houses this year that I’ve lost track of where I am and who I am, quite frankly.’ With Remington Steele no longer a fixture in the TV schedules, the public might also have lost track of who he is. But, as he says, ‘it’s been a busy year’. There will be plenty more chances for autograph hunters to get Pierce Brosnan’s name wrong. We are surrounded by a sample of your actual rolling emerald landscape through which the insistent baa-baaing of sheep is being wafted earwards by a fresh monoxide-free breeze. Brosnan’s three year old son, Sean, is inside watching Superted on TV. His wife Cassie and their two elder children are also close at hand, as is a floppy Retriever called something unpronounceably Gaelic. It’s all very Country Life, but Brosnan looks as though he could be equally at ease in the back room of a pub. ‘This is like an old pair of gloves, really,’ he says. ‘Coming back here is like an old pair of shoes. I feel very relaxed, at one with the land.’ You can tell he’s been living in California. In photographs, Brosnan looks almost impossibly handsome, like Barbie’s boyfriend Ken, only better looking. In real life, with a touch of designer stubble cultivated for his role in Taffin, and with his endearing charm, beguiling brogue et cetera, he is a walking, talking advertisement for Irish manhood. The jacket is Valentino and the socks are Calvin Klein; they are teamed with jeans (of which the label is not visible). His shoes… Well, he says, the left one belongs to him and the right one belongs to Michael Collins. Here I suspect I am being led up the garden path. Michael Collins, as far as I’m aware, is not a designer label. He was a founding father of the Irish Republican Army and the subject of a postponed film project that was to have been directed by Michael Cimino from a script by Robert Bolt: a plum part, one would have thought, for any actor with an Irish accent. ‘I would have been interested,’ Brosnan says, ‘but I’m not right for Michael Collins, no way. I don’t think Hollywood is going to be able to tell the Michael Collins story. I think it should be a very small independent film, somebody who goes away and does it quietly.’ Back on the subject of footwear, the sight of my Dr Martens’ (ladies’ style, very low-key) triggers Brosnan’s memory. ‘I wore them when I was a skinhead. I used to support Spurs. My first long trousers were a pair of Levis reinforced at the knee from Milletts on Putney High Street, with a pair of baseball boots and a crewcut, and I thought I was so hot. I was ten.’ Before young Brosnan went bovverish, he’d been brought up by various relatives in County Meath. His parents parted company soon after 1953, when Pierce was born, and his mother went to London, where she struggled to set up a new life for herself as a nurse before sending for her son to join her there in 1964. It would be thirty years before Pierce saw his father again; the reunion, which took place in a Dublin hotel, was not a success. Pierce had wanted it to be a private affair, but some of his relatives sold their snaps of the occasion to the press, and the event received wide exposure in the tabloids. After two O-levels (in English and Art) and a short stint as a commercial artist, Brosnan studied drama before paying his theatrical dues in various rep productions up and down the country. Those dark good looks were doing the trick even then, because he was singled out for leading roles by Tennessee Williams [to play the role of McCabe in the 1977 British premiere of The Red Devil Battery Sign at the Roundhouse in London] and Franco Zeffirelli [in his 1977 production of Eduardo De Filippo's Filumena at the Lyric Theatre in London]. His first film roles were blink-and-you-miss-them affairs: he snuggled up to Liz Taylor’s bosom in the all-star Agatha Christie-fest The Mirror Crack’d and appeared, more memorably albeit very fleetingly, as the IRA hitman who aims a gun at Bob Hoskins’ head at the end of The Long Good Friday. ‘I never actually worked with Bob Hoskins,’ Brosnan says. ‘The director said: “OK, the camera’s here, and this piece of tape is Bob.”‘ His first major break was a leading role in a mini-series called The Manions of America, a sort of Irish Roots set during the potato famine. After that, he upped and went to Hollywood. ’When I went over there I thought I was going to be doing movies, thinking hopefully in my wildest dreams that I was going to be working with the Sidney Lumets and the Martin Scorseses of this world. But I was totally unknown. Anyway, what happened to me was wonderful.’ What happened was the TV show Remington Steele (1982-1987), which catapulted him to celebrity status in America, complete with devoted fan club whose newsletter, The PB Chronicles, filed such fascinating information as the fact that PB’s favourite food is cornflakes, and that Judy from Wyoming has seen one particular episode of Remington Steele no less than seventeen times. The series never quite took off in the same way on this side of the Atlantic. ‘I think the BBC buying it was a mistake,’ says Brosnan, ‘because it really needed the commercial breaks. It’s a show that didn’t stand up to viewing for 55 minutes non-stop. And they changed it around from Tuesday night to Wednesday and Thursday, so it never really had a good innings.’ The boy-meets-girl-at-detective-agency concept was the brainchild of Glenn Gordon Caron. ‘It was a very sad day when that man left Remington Steele,’ says Brosnan. ‘He had wonderful ideas for Remington and Laura, but he couldn’t really fly with them. I don’t want to throw any mud, as it were, but the producers didn’t see it the way he did. So he just said he was going off to do something faster and funnier. And he did. He went off and did Moonlighting.’ And now Bruce Willis, who took up where Remington left off, has just taken home the Emmy Best Actor award for his role in Moonlighting. ‘Remington was a little bit too straight,’ says Brosnan, ‘but that being said, I have nothing but fond memories of the show.’ Maybe so, but it was Remington that scuppered Brosnan’s chances of becoming the new James Bond, a part that went to Timothy Dalton instead. Remington Steele had been cancelled, and Brosnan had as good as stepped into Roger Moore’s shoes when MTM announced the TV series was going to be revived after all. Contractual obligations being what they were, Brosnan had to kiss his licence-to-kill goodbye. ’I got cancelled out on a Thursday, and I think they had Timothy on the Saturday. I thought they’d made a very good choice.’ ‘Yes, I have taken it in my stride,’ he says. ‘It’s the only thing you can do, really. I don’t feel bitter, no, because bitterness only produces negativity, and negativity produces nothing.’ Nevertheless, when asked whether he has seen The Living Daylights, the answer is negative. ‘I will see it, but right now it’s still a little bit too near the bone. Which speaks volumes in itself…’ But, he reckons, it’s all for the best, it wasn’t meant to be, and anyway fate has dealt him a Good Hand. He played a KGB agent opposite Michael Caine in The Fourth Protocol, recently completed five months’ work in Hong Kong on an eight hour mini-series of James Clavell’s Noble House, and will shortly be off to India for the Merchant-Ivory adaptation of John Masters’ novel, The Deceivers, about the 19th Century cult of Thuggee (previously featuring in Terence Fisher’s The Stranglers of Bombay and Richard Lester’s Help!). [ETA: The Deceivers, directed by Nicholas Meyer, is really rather good, and bears scant relation to the usual Merchant-Ivory house style.] And as soon as Taffin wraps, he’ll be making a Diet Coke commercial. ‘They were going to film it in British Columbia. Then they were going to film it in Ireland, then Los Angeles, then New York…’ And where did they end up? ‘Now it’s going to be filmed in Peterborough.’ Peterborough, it seems, is the only place with a train that fits Diet Coke’s requirements. Brosnan, without being prompted, launches into a protracted and almost poignant justification for his work in advertising (he has already been seen in America endorsing MasterCard), which seems as much for his own benefit as mine. ‘You have to look at your career and think, well, this is who I am and this is what I do, and I may not get a job next year. And I’ve got a wife and three children, and the more money you get, the more money you need. And the money that you get for two days’ work cannot be sneered at.’ (And it’s true that half a million dollars can go a long way towards helping you make the right career moves.) Taffin, according to the advance blurb, is ‘a very original action thriller which sees the return of the romantic, if somewhat reluctant, hero.’ It is not stated as to where the hero is returning from, but Taffin is a debt collector who finds himself pitted against unscrupulous businessmen who are planning to construct a chemical plant on the outskirts of his hometown. ‘I don’t consider myself a romantic hero,’ says Brosnan. ‘Basically, to be rather mundane and boring, I consider myself an actor. But this character is… I hate the term debt collector because it’s so bland. He’s kind of a frustrated idealist, I guess, which isn’t going to put bums on seats. He’s a loner, yes, he’s very much a loner.’ His co-stars in Taffin are Alison Doody, a young Irish actress with excellent cheekbones who played Jenny Flex in A View to a Kill (Brosnan’s wife Cassie appeared in For Your Eyes Only: he must sometimes think fate is taunting him with a conspiracy of ex-Bondgirls) and esteemed Irish actor Ray McAnally, whose Oscar-nominated role as the Cardinal was by far the best thing about The Mission. [ETA: along with Ennio Morricone's score. And two years later, Doody would be co-starring in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.] I have already met McAnally, who has been holding forth in the dining trailer on his theories of heredity: actors breeding actors, athletes springing ready-made from the womb with appropriately athletic physiques, and new generations of Irish dancers being born with naturally thick ankles. McAnally pounces on me as the perfect patsy for a demonstration of English ignorance about all things Irish. ‘Nothing personal,’ he says, going on to ask me the population of Ireland, the name of the third biggest city, the names of the opposition parties, of the Prime Minister, and of the seat of government. I score nul points on all counts. In fact, he gives me a sticky time of it until I cunningly introduce the topic of QPR, which I have read is his favourite football team, and mention of their current league table-topping position gets him beaming benignly. But his lecturing on Irishness has been so authoritative that I conclude he should be the one to know, if anyone does, whether Pierce Brosnan’s Los Angeles lifestyle has turned him into an honorary Angeleno, touching down on Irish soil in the manner of a root-seeking Reagan. No, says McAnally. ‘He’s Irish. He is definitely an Irishman.’ ‘I’m Irish,’ Brosnan confirms. ‘It’s my country. It’s where I was born. It’s my home.’ These days, however, home in the hearthrug sense is a house in the Hollywood Hills, where the Brosnans have been living for the past six years. He is Irish enough, however, to have done away with something called ‘The Disco Room’, a feature of the house when he first bought it. ’There was a mirrored ball in there,’ he says. ‘Now it’s very anglicised, actually, with a lot of overstuffed chairs.’ Being a man of impeccable taste, however, he has yet to wholeheartedly embrace American beer. ‘I like Moosehead and Corona. Budweiser is like yeeaagghh, it’s like water. But I love beer and I’ve put on pounds since I’ve been over here. I think I’ll have to check the old weight out shortly.’ (Now weighing in at a respectable eleven and a half stone, he has been known to hit the scales at fourteen and a half.) Unlike many other residents of Los Angeles, he has yet to deprive himself of alcohol and caffeine, but he has, he assures me, stopped smoking. Ten minutes later, halfway through the photo session, I notice he is clutching a lit cigarette. ‘I know,’ he says, ‘but when I come back to Ireland, I take everything up again.’
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Post by eaz35173 on Mar 19, 2014 7:34:47 GMT -5
www.theguardian.com/film/2014/mar/19/pierce-brosnan-interview-long-way-down Pierce Brosnan: 'Fame can bite you on the ass as quickly as walk in the door'
The former James Bond on new film A Long Way Down, talking to strangers at bus stops and his admiration for Richard Madeley Catherine Shoard Wednesday 19 March 2014 07.57 EDT Hello, Pierce. Are you at home in Hawaii?
No, I’m in Paris. Your character in A Long Way Down, Martin Sharp, asks the others (1) what their three wishes would be. How about yours?I would wish for a healthier planet. A cure for cancer. Let me see … ooh, a fuller bank account. That’s alright, isn’t it? Sure! So do you share any of Martin’s feelings towards fame (2)?
No – I’m not as narcissistic or idiotic, thank God. I do understand where he’s coming from: fame is a very seductive thing, and it can turn around and bite you on the ass as quickly as walk in the door. Martin is a kind of lost soul. I don’t think he was a very good actor or talkshow host; he just wanted the glory of it all. He was not a very sound fellow. He learns a little bit of grace and humility as the story goes on. I read that you partly based him on Richard Madeley.
I looked at many [hosts], but Richard came through. I like Richard; he does such a good job with people and communicating. Ironically, I was in France while I was on another film but about to set forth with this picture. I was by myself having lunch and looking at the script and wondering who this character was and all of a sudden there was Richard, sitting with his wife, this lovely lady, Judy. And I did chuckle to myself. I thought: should I tell them? And I thought: no, that doesn’t bear talking about, really. What quality do you think the best talkshow hosts have?
They’ve good listeners. They have the common touch. An accessibility to one’s own self-deprecation. But it was the inner pluck of the fellow that I was interested in. Where his head was at. I do believe he was very much in pain from the deep humiliation of which he speaks. That was the point for me with which I could really connect. The real bravado of showing yourself every day on TV and being completely disconnected and lost within who you are. Do you find humiliation an especially galling emotion, too (3)?
Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It’s one of the deepest pains of being human. When you lose yourself. And then, being an artist, you’re constantly dealing with the self – as an artist, actor, painter (4), writer. You’re always constructing and destroying something within you. So when you do show it all and it doesn’t fly … [Laughs] It can come with a burning sting of being not worthy. It’s a potent brew and you have to learn how to deal with it. So I could identify with that. Sorry to hear; you’ve kept that quite well-hidden.
[Laughs] Oh, it runs parallel with every other emotion as well. It’s not that I go around feeling humiliated. Martin has an impulse for revenge on the press; he wants to own his own story. Do you identify with that?
I’ve never been in the position he’s been in and my relationship with the press has I think always been fairly open and honest – inasmuch as one can be open and honest with any member of the press. But the job I do is fairly straightforward, fairly simple; I’m an entertainer and actor and you try to keep a public profile that is open to the people and share part of your life with them because they want to know. It’s also very hard to manipulate the press. It can backfire. [Laughs] If you find yourself in a sticky situation, you either have to own up or ignore it. Do you think the film might help combat any taboos that still exist around depression and suicide?
I don’t know if it’s going to combat the trauma and deep suffering of those who find themselves at the end of their tether. I’d like to think, perhaps, that somebody will see it or read about it having found themselves in deep despair and think: God, dash, darn it – brand new day, let’s pick myself up here and sort out this problem and get on with my life; it’s not worth creating such sorrow for my family and friends. It’s a film that puts a lot of stock in the comfort of strangers.
That is very powerful; when you meet somebody on your travels in life, standing at a bus stop and you just find the person open and pleasant to be with and you share whatever’s on your mind on the day. But your fame and profile must make this kind of random connection less likely.
I’ve travelled a lot. He proceeds me, really, the man that I’ve become, the actor that I’ve become. Having played the James Bond role does put you on an international stage like no other role, really. And so it’s somewhat a gift that keeps giving – I like to look at it like that, to embrace it. It allows me to make my own films, to work. It’s such a capricious game. I only accentuate the positive of it all really. Anything else would just be ridiculously stupid. [Laughs] I’ve always been a jobbing actor and I hope to continue to be so. Do you never wish you were back in Raynes Park? (6)
Oh, I’m quite content with Paris, London, Hawaii and Malibu. [Laughs] However, I have a deep fondness for Raynes Park and my mum is there still so I do go back. But does your lack of invisibility make it harder to observe people for roles?
People forget. I mean, I have a recognisable mug and I’m quite tall but I stride out into life, I don’t let it hang me up; wherever I am I walk about. I could walk to the Tuileries now and put a cap on and have a beer and watch the world go by. I get around. It’s essential to being in the world. Footnotes
(1) Toni Collette, Imogen Poots, Aaron Paul. They were all planning to jump off a London tower block on New Year’s Eve, but instead make a pact to try and hang on until Valentine’s Day.
(2) The wish of his character, former talkshow host Martin Sharp, is for his previous fame to be restored. He was disgraced, divorced and briefly imprisoned after a night with a 15-year-old (who he thought looked 25).
(3) It’s a bit of a theme in the film.
(4) Brosnan studied at Central Saint Martins. He donates proceeds from the sale of his paintings to charity.
(5) Toni Collette’s character.
(6) South-west London. Brosnan lived there in the early 1980s, as did I. He worked for a while in a greengrocer’s near the station and apparently used to mind me in my pram while my mother was in other shops.
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Post by eaz35173 on Mar 20, 2014 7:21:48 GMT -5
From a Polish interview ... wyborcza.pl/1,75248,15651087,Pierce_Brosnan_w__Nauce_spadania___WYWIAD_.html Translation courtesy of Google Translate (the translation is ok, and you can figure out the gist of what was said, but it is a bit hard to understand in places) Pierce Brosnan in "Science Fallen '[interview]
Paul T. Felis 03/20/2014, Updated: 20/3/2014 9:16 - Thank God, I have not finally take off his shirt in front of the camera! - Says "Election" Pierce Brosnan, who in "Science Fallen" game disgraced presenter was preparing to commit suicide. From tomorrow in theaters
The film Pascal Chaumeil falling at the beginning of the title is literal sense: it is the New Year's Eve jump from the roof of a skyscraper in London. At the same idea of suicide gesture fall were TV presenter, who engaged in a scandalous affair with a minor and lost everything (Pierce Brosnan), a single mother who takes care of disabled son (Toni Collette), a rebellious daughter Policy (Imogen Poots) and a mysterious hunk who at the beginning says that and it would soon die (Aaron Paul). Neither of them jump. Together they become the heroes of the color press, a chance to get an unexpected friendship, and at the same time begin to see that life is always annoying, it does not mean that it does not make sense. Interview with Pierce Brosnan , Paul T. Felis: Have you ever thought - as played by you in the "Science Fallen" Martin Sharp - about suicide?
Pierce Brosnan: There were moments of depression, collapse. I'm Irish: hypersensitivity and melancholy in my blood. But such a level of despair that entered by a gun to the head or jump out of the window? No. Where do collapse? - No one likes to feel weak and helpless. And you're defenseless when sick relatives or friends. When you see the madness of the world, politicians, listening to the news about what is happening in North Korea or Ukraine. When you realize how little time you have left. Aging in the case of the actor hurt?
- Aging hurt at all. You look in the mirror and see someone other than 20 years ago. I do not want to change it, because right now is you best. Just to make it "now" not had passed so quickly ... There comes a time to przebranżowić. It is difficult for life to run inside with a gun in his hand. - You are evidence of this. Only if you need to? Thank God I play in movies such as "Science Fallen", where you do not have to finally take off at a moment's shirt! grew up on Bond, "Bonnie and Clyde", the films of Clint Eastwood, Marlon Brando. I thought: this is the world of real men, I want to be a part of it. I got first film role in "The Long Good Friday" by John Mackenzie, I had to play in the final scene in the car. "Finally, I sit behind the wheel and I looked like Steve McQueen . " It turned out that I have to be "only" passenger. This is what cinema. Sharp, television presenter, suffering because compromised in the eyes of America and lost what was most important to him: popularity. - Before photographs regained the fascinating homework - addicted to watching TV, breakfast room, spied running. I chose a particular one - that word is a joke, what a sentence is the punch line. Nonchalant, debonair, absorbing the entire screen. By chance I met him later at a restaurant, exchanged a few words. A wonderful character who has nothing to do with me. Poor me "entertainer", entertainers crowds. And how much you narcissus? - I guess I'm a little vain. But the unbridled desire to be loved behind me. I tried that, I celebrated it. It changed my taste. 's interesting, because as a teenager I was morbidly even aloof, closed. When I walked on stage, I felt that to drown. But I learned to play, this unique sanctuary actors that titillate ego get nice reviews, people applaud, you see delight. If narcissism, I have it to this day. I still hope that I can create a brilliant role, play, so that people ran out of words. Sharp performs in the film a certain intrigue. He believes that well known show business, will be able to forge the success of embarrassment. To no avail. The rules of show business are unpredictable? - Thankfully so. When I left Ireland as a 11-year-old, the first film I saw was "Goldfinger". It was something I wanted to be a part of. Then I learned in school drama, I performed in London in Tennessee Williams' plays Joan Plowright is. I believed that I could play anything I wanted to experiment, I had memorized "Taxi Driver". But I landed in America, where it turned out that he did not want anything from me, but rather try to pigeonhole me. It was not you in the drawer too tight?
It was. But America was a dream come true. When I was a kid I rode on a trip to London, it seemed to me that it is already, I'm in America. I considered it a miracle that they even want to give me a job. Everything had its time: the TV series "Remington Steele Detective", Bond, then "The Matador", "Mamma Mia", "The Ghost Writer." you imagined yourself sometimes, your career would look like if the producers of "Detective ..." is not forbade you to play Bond before, in the films "The Living Daylights" and "Licence to Kill"? - I prefer to come back. It was a difficult moment for family reasons: we had with the children back to England, all the plans were shattered. Apparently it was not the right moment. Today you have more freedom? - Well, yes and no. Even if you have your production company, you have to constantly fight with reality. In the movie "November Man" collected money six years ... I'm not into catching good texts. Rather have them luck. It's not me, I called Polanski , the only one for me. I got the script "Science Fallen", look: Nick Hornby. The same, by which even created "High Fidelity" and "An Education". I'm reading more and more delighted - no one like he can not talk about things tragic and funny at the same time. Queue suicide on the roof of the New Year's Eve? After all wonderful. was the same with "wedding in Sorrento" - cancer and the death of his wife, raising a child ... All that I experienced, but director Susanne Bier did not have a clue. And I owe her one of the most personal film of his life. Woody Allen says that there is nothing that protects against bumps soda as order, daily routine. - It's true. When you go to a movie, you're living a virtual life - squeeze out of their sweat to convincingly show false. So you must have something you can catch. Even the fact that every morning - and in fact every other day, alternating with his wife - they take the children to school. Then I play tennis and go to the gym. I make myself a cup of coffee, sutured, paint. A few years ago I did not know what they are painting workshops, I did not know anyone. Today I have my own studio, a lot of friendly painters. sometimes point you to the movies? - The Malibu are only two small cinemas, well they know me there. I buy a ticket and sit in the audience. Recently the older son, who is a fan of "discharge of the Dead" and wanted to see, as in "The World's End" ("This is the end") coped his father. 's a smart boy, he is moreover directed, filmed recently one of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates. LORD also played there? - Father of a young girl. Wonderful experience, when the son finally has a chance to you to conduct. "Maybe we should put the camera here?", "Maybe you could improvise something", "Please, browse this newspaper more naturally." And this pride when talking to you at the end of the day: "Good job."
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Post by eaz35173 on Mar 21, 2014 13:52:24 GMT -5
uk.movies.yahoo.com/pierce-brosnan--i-m-ready-to-return-to-bond-style-action-films-142254732.htmlPierce Brosnan: I'm ready to return to Bond-style action films Actor reveals Daniel Craig 'Mamma Mia!' story is a bit of an urban myth. By Joe Utichi | Yahoo UK Movies News There’s a brilliant story told about a chance encounter Pierce Brosnan had on 'Mamma Mia!', the hit Abba musical of 2008. One of the film’s stars, Dominic Cooper, recounted a version of it recently on the Graham Norton show. The story goes that, while the team were busy recording the 'Waterloo' finale – in which Abba’s best-known hit is crowbarred-in with a full-on stage dance sequence featuring tight jumpsuits with sparkly bits – they were moving between soundstages at Pinewood Studios, in full costume. There was another film shooting at Pinewood at the time – 'Quantum of Solace', Daniel Craig’s second outing as 007. Brosnan, Stellan Skarsgard and Colin Firth rounded a corner and ran into Craig, in one of his trademarked Tom Ford suits. Brosnan, twinkling in his bright blue jumpsuit (with frilly golden cuffs), quipped, “You can laugh, but this is you in a few years.” So when Yahoo Movies caught up with Brosnan, the star of this weekend’s 'A Long Way Down', we couldn’t resist finding out if the story is true. Over the phone from Paris, he burst into laughter. “It’s become kind of legend, that story,” he admitted. “But it’s not true! As I minced my way down the squeaky corridors of Pinewood with Stellan and Colin, I said, ‘All I need now is to bump into Dan Craig’ – me in my jumpsuit and tights. But I never met Daniel, fortunately.” Still, you can put the spy in a sequined jumpsuit, but you can’t take the spy out of the man. Brosnan told us that he’s ready to get back into action, and that he’s just wrapped a new film in which he plays a CIA spy. “'November Man' is a project I’ve had with my production company Irish Dreamtime for about five years,” Brosnan revealed, adding that he felt “very comfortable” picking up a gun once again. The story follows Brosnan’s ex-CIA operative who finds himself up against his former student in a deadly post-Cold War conflict involving high-level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect. Could Brosnan be plotting a late-career return to action like fellow Irishman Liam Neeson? “I think there’s been enough space and time between me and Bond, and enough room on the stage for me to quietly come in there and do something in that arena again,” he said. “It was something that had been talked about for a long time. ”He promises the film will be out “before you know it”. There’s little room for espionage and intrigue in Brosnan’s current project. Based on the Nick Hornby book, 'A Long Way Down' tells the story of four lost souls who meet at a popular suicide hotspot on New Year’s Eve, and talk each other away from the ledge. Brosnan plays a disgraced TV presenter who’s ready to end it all, and the actor says the character is an amalgam of the many breakfast TV hosts he’s come across. “There were a few reference points,” he explains. “One guy in particular I honed in on, because I thought he was very entertaining. I know him and I’ve been on his show – with him and his partner – and so I just brought the enthusiasm of him to my character.” He didn’t name any names when we spoke to him – how many husband-and-wife TV presenters can you think of? – but the film’s press materials reveal that Richard Madeley – of Richard & Judy fame – was Brosnan’s inspiration. Suicide isn’t a usual topic for comedy, and Brosnan admits thinking about it was “an awful place to go in your imagination as an actor”. But he was impressed by Jack Thorne’s adaptation, and Horby’s book, and how it handled the issue sensitively. The key to the process, he said, was a strong bond he formed with his co-stars, Aaron Paul, Toni Collette and Imogen Poots. In a high-wattage selfie, they were pictured on Paul’s twitter feed at a Radiohead concert together. “There was a great fondness between the four of us,” Brosnan said. “We had breakfast, lunch and dinner together and that was the nature of the beast.” 'A Long Way Down' is out in cinemas today.
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Post by eaz35173 on Mar 27, 2014 14:04:54 GMT -5
www.shortlist.com/entertainment/films/people-still-call-me-mr-bond"PEOPLE STILL CALL ME ‘MR BOND’" Pierce Brosnan on 007, Taffin and hanging with Aaron Paul Your new film A Long Way Down is about four characters bonding in extreme circumstances. Did the director insist you hung out in real life? We saw a picture of you and co-star Aaron Paul at a Radiohead gig…
All four of us are Radiohead fans and we’d planned to go to see them, but the day we got the tickets I had to work. But Aaron, being a dude, said, “Hey listen, I’ve got tickets for tomorrow night, let’s go again.” So it was just him and I. We had a laugh. Were you into Breaking Bad? Was Aaron doing ‘Shaken, not stirred’ quotes at you, you giving him ‘Yeah, bitch!’ right back?
No, we didn’t do any of that. But I’d been hearing about this guy and his work in Breaking Bad, so when this gig came in I thought I’d better see what the man’s up to, and it blew me away. I’ve not yet finished it; I’ve only got through the first season, as I then went off to work. I downloaded it all the other day, so I’m going to check it out while I’m in Paris for the next month or so. You became a US citizen in 2004. Have you picked up any typically American habits?
I’ve been there 30 years, I’m happily an American. I look around and suddenly life is whizzing by – I have an American wife, American sons, I’m paying American taxes. But I think I’m still consistently the same as I was before the American passport. Ostensibly an Irishman abroad with an American passport. Do you ever unleash your inner Irishman? Gorge on a Father Ted box set or down some Guinness?
[Laughs] I love Father Ted! I do have a good old temper on me – I can fly off the handle with the best of them. Nothing violent or anything, you just know when my ire is up, I suppose. I tend to be like a bull in a china shop, a bit Irish. Inevitably, we must talk Bond. Is being in the 007 alumni like being a US president – are you still ‘Mr Bond’ in retirement?
Oh yeah. It’s for life, that one. It’s a small group of men – one I’m very proud to belong to. It’s the gift that keeps giving in many respects. People call me Mr Bond in the street. What did you think of Skyfall? Is seeing Daniel Craig on screen a bit like watching him date your ex-girlfriend?
[Laughs] It’s all his. He’s the man, he’s the dude. There’s only one Bond and that’s him. I didn’t see any of the others, but I loved Skyfall. I thought what Sam Mendes did was very rich and textured and had real balls to it – I was very impressed. Are there any props from the Bond movies that you now have in your house?I have the shoes, actually. I wore the same pair of shoes in all four movies, a pair of Church’s that just became like slippers. I don’t wear them now, they’re at home, somewhere in the wardrobe. Elder action heroes are big business, with Liam Neeson’s Second Coming and The Expendables. Would you return to action if the right offer came?
Oh, the offer has come in for the next Expendables. I just worked over in Bulgaria with Avi Lerner who makes them. He said, “Would you like to be in The Expendables? I’d love to have you,” and I said, “Why not?” So we’ll see. So would that be The Expendables 3? 4? 5?!
I have no idea which one it would be, I just said yes. It could be 7! We must ask about your 1988 film Taffin, with one line made famous by Adam & Joe. Have you ever spoken to them about it?
I’ve never spoken to the guys about it. I can’t even remember what the line is. It was, “MAYBE YOU SHOULDN’T BE LIVING HEEEEERE!” Have people shouted that in the street to you since?
Never. No. I think that’s a home brew that doesn’t translate to America. I heard about this, but I can’t even remember the line. But it’s cool when that kind of stuff happens. Well done guys, thank you very much. Finally, are you still painting? You once said you’d only ever sold one piece of art. Has that changed?
Still painting. I’m working on having an exhibit, maybe in the next year or so – if I can sing in Mamma Mia I may as well show my art, give everyone a good laugh. A Long Way Down is at cinemas nationwide now
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Post by eaz35173 on Mar 28, 2014 5:51:39 GMT -5
From the Irish Examiner ... www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/brosnan-thanks-irish-genes-for-his-age-resistant-looks-263475.htmlPierce Brosnan thanks Irish genes for his age-resistant looks
Friday, March 28, 2014 Hollywood star Pierce Brosnan has credited his youthful film star looks to his Irish genes. By Lynne Kelleher The former Bond star, who divides his time between his beachfront homes in Malibu and Hawaii, loves the outdoor life The Navan-born star, who turned 60 last year, is happy he isn’t showing too many signs of ageing, although he has resigned himself to growing old. He said in an interview with Woman’s Weekly: “I do seem to have some good Irish genes although I think I’ll wake up one morning and the door will hit me on the back of the head, my teeth will fall out, my hair will fall, and it will be all over. “It’s just life,” says Brosnan. “They say growing old ain’t for sissies. It’s true. The older you get, the stronger you have to get. You just have to accept certain things and make peace with it and get on with it.” However, the actor, who has been working on a string of movies, is showing some signs of his age with his professed newfound interest in hardware stores. “I love hardware stores,” he says. “I don’t buy much because I’m no good with a hammer and a nail but they’re just pleasant places to look around.” Brosnan also told how he leans on his family for support in the wake of the tragic death of his daughter Charlotte last year from the same disease that killed her mother Cassandra in 1991. “We all have our ‘black dog’ days but we just have to work through them,” he says. “It helps that I am a family man because they are a great support to me.” He said he feels very blessed to have found love a second time around with his wife Keely after meeting her at an environmental conference 20 years ago. “Keely wasn’t looking for anyone at the time and neither was I,” says Brosnan. “But I think we meet the people we’re supposed to meet. I’m the luckiest man to have found such a beautiful woman with such compassion and intelligence and love for life. I thank God for her and the kids every day.” Brosnan says he tries to be a supportive parent to his four sons, Christopher, 41, and Sean, 30, from his first marriage; and Dylan, 16, and Paris, 12. He says he and his family divide their time between homes in the exotic locations of Malibu and Hawaii. “Keely is an environmentalist and I’ve always enjoyed the outside life so we’re bringing our kids up with a respect for nature,” says Brosnan. “I even learned to surf a couple of years ago.” Meanwhile, Brodsnan says he loved working with Oscar-winning Emma Thompson on their upcoming movie, Love Punch. He says: “She is a magical person. She has such a joy of life and is so gifted.” However, Brosnan says he regretted not learning French by the time he arrived on set in France. “Emma speaks French and I don’t,” he says. “There’s no excuse because I had eight months off before we did the film and I had the choice of either learning French or how to play the piano and I learned how to play the piano. “Once we got to France, Emma was off talking to people everywhere and I was left there like a silent Irishman with nothing to say for myself.”
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Post by eaz35173 on Mar 30, 2014 10:18:11 GMT -5
A snippet from a new interview in the May issues of the German magazine Meine ... www.presseportal.de/meldung/2700541/tTranslation courtesy of Google Translate ... Pierce Brosnan exclusively in MINE: "The Fall of the monks I'll never forget!"
Hamburg (ots) - Irish actor and wife favorite Pierce Brosnan (60) reveals in an exclusive interview with the magazine MINE, that he had a difficult childhood: "I grew up for a time without a mother with my grandparents in Ireland I went to one. convent school where the beatings of monks were part of the daily bread. " Nevertheless, he was a believer, the movie star says in MINE: "I was brought up as a Catholic and will remain so, even if I do not support everything that makes the Church." His faith gave him - in addition to his family! - Even strength and comfort, as it was his first wife and then his adopted daughter had died of cancer. Pierce Brosnan to MINE, "I pray and go to church I also think that it continues after death I feel at heart..." About the happiness with his second wife Keely Brosnan says, "I love her vitality, her passion lies in her a strength, without which I could never get along She's the polar star of my life..." He continues: "When Keely looks at me, I'll faint." In some years, Pierce Brosnan wants with his wife his dream of freedom and independence to live. "I say to Keely: Let's sell the house and live in a caravan so a fresh start would be great." Note to editors: The full interview appears in the second April in the new Mine-issue 5/2014. For further information please contact the editorial Mine, telephone 040 / 3019-4181. Statements are free when naming the source Mine for publication. =============== Willie, do you know if this magazine is available on-line? I can't seem to find it with my US/English search engine.
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Post by clacla64 on Mar 31, 2014 2:53:28 GMT -5
A snippet from a new interview in the May issues of the German magazine Meine ... www.presseportal.de/meldung/2700541/tTranslation courtesy of Google Translate ... Pierce Brosnan exclusively in MINE: "The Fall of the monks I'll never forget!"
Hamburg (ots) - Irish actor and wife favorite Pierce Brosnan (60) reveals in an exclusive interview with the magazine MINE, that he had a difficult childhood: "I grew up for a time without a mother with my grandparents in Ireland I went to one. convent school where the beatings of monks were part of the daily bread. " Nevertheless, he was a believer, the movie star says in MINE: "I was brought up as a Catholic and will remain so, even if I do not support everything that makes the Church." His faith gave him - in addition to his family! - Even strength and comfort, as it was his first wife and then his adopted daughter had died of cancer. Pierce Brosnan to MINE, "I pray and go to church I also think that it continues after death I feel at heart..." About the happiness with his second wife Keely Brosnan says, "I love her vitality, her passion lies in her a strength, without which I could never get along She's the polar star of my life..." He continues: "When Keely looks at me, I'll faint." In some years, Pierce Brosnan wants with his wife his dream of freedom and independence to live. "I say to Keely: Let's sell the house and live in a caravan so a fresh start would be great." Note to editors: The full interview appears in the second April in the new Mine-issue 5/2014. For further information please contact the editorial Mine, telephone 040 / 3019-4181. Statements are free when naming the source Mine for publication. =============== Willie, do you know if this magazine is available on-line? I can't seem to find it with my US/English search engine. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH .................... HJAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH
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Post by clacla64 on Mar 31, 2014 2:56:36 GMT -5
mmmmmhhh ;d nice in the caravan.... kisses & best wishes from clacla
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Post by eaz35173 on Mar 31, 2014 6:06:45 GMT -5
More from the Meins interview via Independent Woman ... www.independent.ie/woman/love-sex/pierce-brosnan-still-goes-weak-at-seeing-wife-of-13-years-keely-shaye-smith-30141113.htmlPierce Brosnan still 'goes weak' at seeing wife of 13 years Keely Shaye SmithThe 60-year-old will always be remembered for playing James Bond in the spy franchise between 1995 and 2005 and has taken on several movie roles since. He's married to Keely Shaye Smith and despite being able to splash out on luxuries, the actor has a simple future in mind for them. "I say to Keely: 'Let's sell the house and live in a caravan.' A new start like that would be amazing!" he smiled to German magazine Meins. Pierce was previously married to Cassandra Harris, who tragically passed away aged 43 in 1991 following a battle with ovarian cancer. Last year, Cassandra's daughter Charlotte, who Pierce was the adoptive father of, sadly died of the same illness. He married Keely in 2001 and is thankful for her support. "I love her vitality, her passion," he said. "She has this strength that I wouldn't be able to live without. When Keely looks at me, I go weak." Irish Pierce has often spoken about his Catholic faith and the way it helped him cope with hard times. He didn't have an easy childhood, but it didn't make the star question his beliefs. "For some time I grew up without my mother, living with my grandparents in Ireland," he explained. "I went to a Catholic school where beatings from the monks where a part of everyday life. I was raised as a Catholic and I will always be one, even if I don't support all of the church's actions. "I pray and go to mass. I also believe in life after death. I feel that deep within me."
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Post by mcm on Mar 31, 2014 6:21:59 GMT -5
Good interview of Pierce ! I love when he talks about Keely . His words are real.
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Post by eaz35173 on Apr 1, 2014 7:13:30 GMT -5
A nice interview from a German publication ... www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/menschen/im-gespraech-pierce-brosnan-mit-meinem-alter-ego-muss-ich-leben-12870443.htmlTranslation courtesy of Google Translate. Interview: Pierce Brosnan
"With my alter ego I have to live"
01.04.2014 · It was seven years James Bond, now he makes others films. Pierce Brosnan on morbid vanity, insecurity, naked women, his ukulele - and a certain secret agent. From CHRISTIAN AUST Seven years and four movies long Pierce Brosnan was the most famous agent in the world. A job that can be both a blessing and a curse. With his late work, the former 007 tries to reinvent itself, as now as washed-show host in the big-screen adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel "A Long Way Down". In this interview, we experience a thoughtful movie hero, who appears to be willing to let go and free yourself from the image of eternal Beaus. And so he jumps right: Do not be surprised about my tan. I was not on vacation, that's all make-up - a wrong complexion. We have decided that the tragic TV presenter, I play absolutely needs a false complexion. Wrong complexion. The story of your life, right?
Sort of. But George Hamilton has even built an entire career on the wrong complexion. Your co-star Aaron Paul has just told me that you are a big fan of the British alternative band "Radiohead". I would not necessarily expect.
( Groans ) Did he tell that? Well, we went together to this "Radiohead" concert - Aaron, Toni (Collette), Imogen (Poots) and me. Normally I create something not during filming. I usually eat my bowl of soup, and then it's off to bed. I could watch during the shooting. Shortly before! "Action" means to lead you to a little dance or pretend as if you play golf. Are you always so deeply relaxed at work?No, on the contrary. Sometimes shooting is terrible. And sometimes it is so hard, because I would run away. I can be very nervous and tense. That always happens when I have no confidence in my work. The scene you saw was just extremely easy. If you had come a week earlier, you would have had a different impression, because there really was scraping the barrel. Generally I try not to sweat on camera figuratively so much and not so tight to see everything. I've become a little playful. If I have learned something after all these years, then the fact that I did not have to do so much on camera. Sometimes I have to just be present. What interests you after all these years in this profession?
It's quite simple: I just love to make films. I think it's wonderful to be on a film set. And it's fun to have a role to which I can think of something, with which I'm going to bed at night and in the morning get up again. The role accompanied me while shopping, or when I'm driving the kids to school. I keep thinking about how I have to play these men. And I try to do even better. The only thing I find really hard is to be so long separated from my family when I'm working in London for instance. Then my wife and children I miss very much. We have a very close relationship, and I still heart pain when they are not there. But I can see in London my mother. This is also nice. Now you play a facilitator who is after a scandal to the "persona non grata". Are you afraid someday cease to be prominent?
I confess frankly, when I became acquainted with "Remington Steele", I enjoyed the attention. When the children said, I've just recognized someone I wanted to know who that was, and was looking forward honest about it. At the end we had a code word for those situations when I have somewhere to attract attention. Ask me not why, but we always said "H2O". Eventually, it was only: "Dad, H2O." And I knew. In the beginning was such an innocent fun. But the longer it takes, the more it changes. What changed?
Eventually you make yourself sick. I could not bear my vanity. And then the show closes, and suddenly no one is interested in more for you. In short, I know the man that I play there. I had no scandal, but I know the feeling, suddenly no longer being in the limelight. You'll have to learn to let go. This popularity is something very elusive. You are "Bond", which is a big thing, and then another man makes your job. You'll always thrown back on yourself and you have to live with it. How do you live with it?
Enjoy life, be happy and work. I am lucky to have a job that I love. And it helps to have a family that catches you. But even though I love my job, always there are the days where I do not feel comfortable in my own skin, will be another and no desire to have me. Nevertheless, the whole weight of the world rests on your shoulders, and you have to be nice to everyone. And there are, of course, colleagues working in such moments can and will share the common. When I was in danger of losing contact with the ground, my wife and the kids have jerked again and again. And I have never forgotten my education: Irish Catholic. This has influenced me. They grew up in very modest circumstances.
Yes, we had hardly any money. But the story of my youth, I have to pick me for my memoirs. I feel just like at confession. A few stories I have to keep to myself. But my life has evolved in a very positive direction since my childhood. When do you write your memoirs?
That's a good question! I have already formulated some aspects of a rough draft and am wondering how the book would look like. Honestly? Biographies can be so damn boring because you always have to start with your childhood. I prefer to start right away with the exciting part, as in a film by Quentin Tarantino. You start with punchy action and work later, the early past. As you turn it and turnest, somehow sitting there in this genre always the old man who reminisces. If me is aware, I think every time: My God, how boring. I have become an old bag. They say there were moments in which you have made himself sick. This does not happen necessarily, if one is constantly confronted with his own image?There are those phases where I look in the mirror and think: That's him. This peculiar version of me. I call it my "Himness" (from English "him", he). It is this image that I have created with my films. As a young actor you are looking just for something to differentiate yourself from the others. And then at some point you end up with this alter ego, this other guy. And with which I must now live. But there are worse things. Why you never had scandals?
Of course, as a young actor, I wanted success, and I wanted to be a movie star. At the money I actually have not so much thought. Movie star, that was the goal, even at the time when I was still at drama school, because I loved the movie and the actors. All these secondary aspects, everything that has potential for scandal, I found less interesting. Well, I always like to wear nice suits, shoes and shirts. But beyond that, I just wanted to be like my colleagues, to whom I have looked up. And you know what? I still want to. Says the movie star. Do you have to be, not yet arrived seriously feel at the destination?
You know, everything you have is the moment. The one film that Premiere. "Golden Eye" or "Thomas Crown". And then it's gone, and you want it back. Because it is so intoxicating. And it sounds stupid, but for me it's a good feeling to make viewers happy. I want antörnen the people, because that's the joy of it. I still think it's fantastic when people come to me and say: I had a fantastic night at the movies, I liked this movie. I think it's even great to see colleagues like George Clooney on the canvas or Matthew McConaughey. And in those moments, I always think I must be better. Finally, I have a responsibility to the public. The pay admission to see you, and then you must not let them down and deliver need. Do you have the feeling of not belonging to the Clooney and McConaughey?
I am somehow to do so. But I also always remain a fan And it's always funny to feel that they belong to this tribe of movie stars, because I lead a very secluded life, which revolves mainly around my wife and kids. Morning I get up at six clock, running around in your pajamas, the children bring to school, go to the gym, go out with the dog, drink my coffee, read the newspaper. I live in a neighborhood that knows me well, because I'm a part of it for a long time. And then I sit there and wonder what will probably be my next job. Since there is a lot of normalcy until I have to pack my bags again and go on tour. This is a strange duality. I'll come to in another part of the world, trying to make my hotel room quickly became a home and am just still busy with film. How to make a room quickly at home?So, I paint. That's why I often doing a little easel that I build. And then I always travel with my flute and ukulele. I'm trying to find out where you can eat well, where the best restaurants are. I'm asking about galleries and museums, and then I try as quickly as possible to warm up with colleagues to establish a small community. Where did you see your first film?
ADa where I grew up, there were only two cinemas: the "Lyric" and the "Palace". The first film that really impressed me was "The Defiant Ones" with Tony Curtis and Sidney Portier. This black and the white man chained together, it took me right. Although I did not understand everything, because I was living in the village and only knew country life. And then when I left Ireland in 1964, I saw "Goldfinger", my first James Bond movie with this beautiful naked woman. Man, that was fantastic. Did you want to be 007?
No, I wanted to be Oddjob, Goldfinger's aide, and just have a hat. I was still really innocent. I was only 15, and everything that I had there was a folder with pictures and drawings. That was my ticket out into the world. Because I did not want to be a carpenter or electrician, as all my mates. I wanted to do something with art. My dear father took me for a little strange, I know. He was not quite sure what I meant and what to make of it. But he was a good man. And anyway there was nothing that could have stopped me. When I had discovered the acting, it had happened to me. At 17 I went to a workshop at the "Oval House Theatre" in South London, not knowing what that is all. What happened there?
I was scared, but at the same time it was also incredibly exciting. There was this big black room, we had to lay on the floor, close your eyes and hum. Then we have palpated with closed eyes the faces of others. I thought: This is great! Man, these women are beautiful! It was not until I made experimental theater. It was strange, but I felt immediately at ease. Did you feel because for the first time in her life free?
Yes, because I was raised Catholic. In the church it was always about shame. If you are doing this or that, you're a bad person. And suddenly everything was possible for me. And whatever was burning in me, I was able to let out a sudden. My first appearance was in "The Little Prince". They have experienced some setbacks in life. Where have you always taken the energy to process them?
That's hard to say, I am now once carved from this wood. As strange as it sounds, but there is still this Catholic faith in me. And who has helped me over the years. I am a devout Catholic. And when my whole world fell apart, I continued. Maybe that is typically Irish. Also, I always enjoy the life and the people, even when times are hard. We want to be all happy, right? And you have to find a way if it just does not go well, if no one wants to know something from you and you hold your work for big crap. Then you have to be strong.
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Post by rosafermu on Apr 2, 2014 2:37:28 GMT -5
As always, Pierce shows that it is an extraordinary human being. I adore. Thanks so much, eaz.
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Post by eaz35173 on Apr 2, 2014 10:08:27 GMT -5
Recent interview by Design Father, courtesy of Hackett ... www.designfather.com/pierce-brosnan-interview/Pierce Brosnan remains the face of Hackett for their Spring/Summer 2014 campaign. And it was Hackett who made it possible to question him everything about travelling, shopping, style and his career highlights. Looks like the all star team has indeed returned to their roles for Hackett’s sequel of “The Leading Man” (you can watch everything about it, concerning Part 1 for Autumn/Winter 2013 here). And so the new and quite exciting Spring/Summer 2014 campaign of Hackett was shot by legendary photographer, Terry O’Neill, featuring no other than the most epic Commander to have ever walked on earth, Pierce Brosnan. The “Leading Man” concept continues, this time leaving business and the boardroom behind and focusing on him relaxing on the chic French Riviera. And it gave us what we actually desperately needed the most: the -once in a lifetime- opportunity to shamelessly question Pierce Brosnan. About travelling, style and his grand career. How often do you visit London and what’s your favourite shopping area?
I visit London several times a year. It is my home away from home. I have lived all over London but currently I have a great fondness for Chelsea. I love to attend theatre at the Royal Court, visit the Saatchi Gallery, there a number of stylish restaurants in the area, and some excellent shopping on King’s Road and Sloane Street. I even have a favourite church in the area, called The Holy Trinity Church. What’s your favourite holiday destination?
The north shore of Kauai. How do you stay stylish in the heat?
You can’t beat linen or a white cotton shirt. A good panama hat is essential too. Or any old straw hat for that matter. Do you have a favourite city and why?
I love New York City. The energy, the theatre, the art, the food, the people, the parks and streets. But I could say the same of London or Paris too. What’s your favourite hotel and why?
I love a particular balcony suite at Le Meurice Hotel overlooking the Tuileries in springtime. I also like The Ritz Hotel at Christmas time when the square is illuminated with festive holiday lights. My family and I have stayed at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in London for many years. My favourite balcony suite overlooks the park where my children can watch the guard’s parade. Which season do you prefer dressing for, summer or winter?
I like dressing in all seasons. Every season has its own character and charm. I like wearing cashmere sweaters, beautiful over coats, sturdy boots and well-made shoes…and you can’t beat a good Irish tweed cap or soft velvet fedora in winter. I love the crisp whites of summer, throwing on a favourite pair of shorts and a straw hat with leather flip flops. What was your favourite look from the SS14 Hackett shoot?
I love the shot of me in the white suit driving the Mercedes high above the azure coastline of Èze. Concerning career highlights, which moments are you particularly proud of?
Meeting Tennessee Williams as a young man and working with him on Red Devil Battery Sign before he passed away … Working with Franco Zefferelli on Filumena in the West End… going to America… playing Remington Steel… being cast as James Bond… creating my own production company Irish Dreamtime… producing Thomas Crown, The Matador, Evelyn, and November Man. And how could I forget singing with Meryl Streep and cast in Mama Mia. I have been fortunate to work with great directors including John Boorman, Roman Polanski, John McTiernan, and Roger Donaldson to name a few. If you hadn’t been an actor, what do you think you would have been?
A social worker… or a painter. Who has been your biggest inspiration?
Early in my career, film stars like Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, Steve Mc Queen, Marlon Brando, and Cary Grant. I stole from all of them. Now it’s directors like Martin Scorsese, David O’Russell, Ang Lee, Wes Anderson, Doug Liman, and Paul Greengrass. What did you want to be when you were growing up?
An artist. Which character have you identified with most?
Thomas Crown.
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