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Post by eaz35173 on Apr 7, 2014 15:41:40 GMT -5
ph.celebrity.yahoo.com/news/pierce-brosnan-wife-made-better-man-003000663.htmlPierce Brosnan: My wife made me a better man
Cover Media By covermg.com | Cover Media EN Gallery 2 - High up in a Berlin hotel suite, Pierce Brosnan surveys the skyline while he admits to being at something of a crossroads in his career. He is comfortable with the knowledge that he has already achieved the lofty goals he set out for himself as a young man. “I wanted fame, fortune, and all the grand things in life – and I got it,” Brosnan muses. “But that doesn’t really fuel you to the next stop. You need to keep pushing yourself and looking for different avenues to explore. I’m at an interesting place in my life – I like the idea that I don’t know what direction my career will take.” Brosnan’s leading man good looks and his ability to project dashing determination as well as anguish have helped him soar as James Bond, Thomas Crown, and various screen incarnations. Over the past decade, however, handsome Irishman has enjoyed an inspired career renaissance. With films like Matador, Mamma Mia!, and the recent Love is All You Need, Brosnan has put his Bond legacy behind him and carved out a new image as a rom-com star. His new film, A Long Way Down, sees him play a disgraced TV talk show host who has just been convicted of having sex with an underage girl. He thus decides to take his life by jumping off the roof of London tower block fabled for suicide leaps. Once atop the roof, he meets three other fellow would-be jumpers and instead of plunging to their doom, they instead decide to form an emotional support groups and convince each other to delay their suicide plans at least until Valentine’s Day. The film is based on the eponymous 2005 Nick Hornby novel and co-stars Imogen Poots as the drug-addicted daughter of a politician, Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) as a failed rock star turned pizza-delivery man, and Toni Collette as a mother feeling hopeless over her son’s cerebral palsy. These four lost souls then band together and embark on a joint media tour where they discuss how they were able to turn away from despair and move towards a renewed faith in life. Now 60, Brosnan feels that he’s benefitted from having age take the edge off his matinee idol appearance and given him an added gravitas. But he doesn’t have much cause to brood these days. This year marks the 20th anniversary of his marriage to second wife Keely Shaye Smith, a journalist and environmentalist. They are parents to two sons, Dylan, 17, and Paris, 13. They divide their time between homes in Kauai, Hawaii, and Malibu, California. For our chat, Pierce was looking supremely elegant and tanned and very sharp in his dark blue suit and striped tie. He has the air of a man who – despite the loss of his first wife Cassandra Harris to ovarian cancer in 1991 – has found happiness and mastered the art of living. THE INTERVIEW Q: Mr. Brosnan, in your new film, A Long Way Down, you play Martin Sharp, a disgraced TV presenter. You’ve been famous for much of your life, did you empathise with your character in any way? BROSNAN: Not as far his sexual habits are concerned! (Smiles) But I understand what it is like to deal with the perils of fame and being in the public eye. I’ve had my share of scurrilous press stories printed about me and my family and it’s terribly, terribly unpleasant. You feel powerless in the situation and usually if there is some difficult in your life having the press report about your private crisis is simply a source of aggravation. But I did identify with Martin’s feelings of being lost and abandoned while dealing with the consequences of fame. This is something I understand very well and I liked how he was able to find some grace and learn some humility in the course of his journey in the film. He’s not a bad man. He simply got caught up in the narcissistic sides of fame which are very alluring and seductive. I’ve had the odd moment earlier in my career where fame was creeping into my soul, but thankfully I was able to recognise what was happening to me and escape that trap. Q: Were you a fan of Nick Hornby and his novel before you signed onto the film? BROSNAN: Yes. When my agent called me about the film I told him to send me the script right away and I thought it was very entertaining. I was also very keen to work with the brilliant and gorgeous Toni Collette, with Imogen (Poots), whose films I watched to get a sense of her, and with Aaron Paul, who is such a wild and interesting fellow – the rock star of the film. I thought, fantastic, I’m in! I loved the part of Martin, he made me laugh. There was a kind of sadness to him, but I did like the comedic side to him – he’s Sharp by name but not the sharpest knife in the drawer! Q: Was it a question for you of balancing his more narcissistic and obnoxious traits with his more vulnerable and deeper sides? BROSNAN: Not really. I loved his more obnoxious sides because it’s part of his media personality... He’s a bit of a pr*ck, really – which appeals to me. Can you get away with it? Can you have a character like this who’s somewhat alienated from society? And the answer was, yeah, I think we can do this, I think we can make him likeable. The flaws of this kind of character were wonderful to play. Q: Having turned 60, do you have any reflexions on how you’ve changed over the years? BROSNAN: I’m the same person I was when I started out. I’d like to think I’m much wiser and even more open as an individual than when I was younger and still scarred in many ways by my upbringing (His father left his mother when he was a child and was raised for many years by his grandparents). You learn to close off certain sides of yourself as a form of self-protection until you begin to realise that you don’t have to protect yourself anymore and that those defences you’ve put up have become the real problem. Perhaps you never entirely unburden yourself of your past, but you do manage to find peace of mind. Q: What has your marriage to Keely Shaye-Smith meant to you? BROSNAN: Much more than you can describe in any short answer. She’s a very strong woman who has been a truly loving and caring partner in life. She’s made me a better father and man, and we’re so blessed to have been able to share our lives together. She allows me to be myself and we’ve been able to build our relationship over the years and together with my children that’s my greatest accomplishment in life. Q: You’ve often spoken of how meeting Keely was an incredible stroke of luck in some sense...? BROSNAN: It’s very rare to find great love twice in one’s life. When I met Keely I thought I had a chance to experience that incredible feeling again and I was right. I never expected it to happen but when it did it restored some of my faith in life in a very fundamental and beautiful way. It’s an extraordinary thing. Q: You’ve been together nearly twenty years now – is that correct? BROSNAN: It will be twenty years next April and it's been a wonderful journey together. It’s more than just the love you feel for someone, it’s also the sense of companionship and friendship which is what keeps you together over the long run. Every couple knows that love is not always as intense as it was when you first came together, and so you need to not only love your partner but also enjoy their company and still want to share many different plans and hopes for the future. It’s the most beautiful feeling in the world to have someone in your life who makes you feel so glad and content with yourself and with your partner. Q: What’s your daily life like when you’re not working on a film? BROSNAN: I have a fairly simple routine. I drop my sons off at school and usually I like to play tennis for a few hours, go for a workout at the gym, and then go home and have lunch with Keely. I spend my afternoons reading scripts, making phone calls, discussing projects and things like that, or when I’m in the mood I’ll go upstairs to my studio and work on my painting. Then I’ll pick the boys up from school and get ready for dinner with Keely. I love all that and I treasure that time because often when I’m away shooting a film for two or three months I’ll miss those family moments terribly. Q: How do you look back on your career? BROSNAN: It’s a fickle business. You never feel that secure and you have to be constantly aware of the possibility that it can disappear very quickly. I’ve seen it happen to other people and I’ve also seen my own fortunes fade very rapidly. As an actor, you have to have a great deal of determination and self-belief. You’re always hunting for the next role and with each film you find yourself having to deconstruct your own identity and dissolve into each new character. It’s an interesting process. Q: Did you always know that you needed to go to Hollywood to have a shot at a big career? BROSNAN: It was my late wife (Cassandra), God bless her, who said we should go to America, and somehow we took out a second mortgage on the central heating, and we went to Los Angeles on a wing and a prayer. And the first audition I went on was for Remington Steele, and I got the job. And I had no idea what to do with Remington Steele. Bob Butler was the director, and he said, ‘It’s an old movie.’ So I looked at Cary Grant movies and tried to be Cary Grant. Q: Your career has been marked by your turn as James Bond. How do you situate that chapter in your career? BROSNAN: James Bond was a great gift in my life. I had great success with the role and it’s a gift that keeps on giving in many respects. It was my chance to be centre-stage and enjoy all the attention and fame and fortune that comes with that… It’s a small group of men who have played the role, and now it’s my time to do interesting work and embrace all the unexpected surprises that come my way and really, just play. It’s legal cheating – at least that’s how my wife describes it. Bond is the gift that keeps on giving. (Smiles) Q: Life hasn’t always treated you very kindly, though. What kind of mark does tragedy leave on one? BROSNAN: (Pauses) You learn to adapt. I grew up in southern Ireland where my father had left my mother and I was raised by my grandparents. It wasn’t easy for me and it made me wary of what life could throw at you. You never truly get used to the idea of losing people you love. It teaches you to love your family and friends even more. Q: You’ve often said that you were lucky to find love again when you met Keely. How have you made your marriage work? BROSNAN: You learn to stay the course. You work at supporting each other and caring for each other even if the love and intensity aren’t always present the way it was when you first met. All couples face that prospect and that’s why it’s so important to be great friends and work through the difficult times because you know this is the woman you love with all your heart. Q : Is parenting easier the second time around ? BROSNAN : Parenting is never easy. Every father and mother on earth will testify to that ! (Smiles) But I have to say that having had the experience of raising children previously, you have a much better understanding of how to deal with situations because you’ve already gone through similar events. I feel I have a much better sense of when to be very easy-going and when to lay down the law if our sons cross the line. Keely, though, is a fantastic mother and she has helped me be an even better father just because of the kind of perceptive and loving woman that she is. Q: Are there any lessons you learnt from your earlier experience as a father? BROSNAN: Yes. I learnt from my time as stepfather to Cassie’s children and then as a father to our son. You learn the skills of patience and understanding and just being there for your children. While I was a single father raising three children it was a very different and hard experience because my finances weren’t that good until Bond came along and it was a very stressful time. You try to do your best and my greatest concern was trying to find enough film roles and not have to work on another TV series because that means you’re gone from morning to night five days a week eight or nine months a year. I desperately wanted to avoid that for the sake of my children. Fortunately Bond came along at a time when I really needed that kind of a gift in my life. Q: Do you ever wonder how you held things together through those difficult times? BROSNAN: I’ve always been grounded by my Irishness. And religion and faith has helped, too. You also don’t have any choice but to take your responsibilities in life as a father very seriously and you become pragmatic. I didn’t expect to fall in love again the way I did with Keely and when it happened it was such a beautiful moment in my life. When somebody truly captivates you, it can be as simple as that, and as complex as that. Q: What kind of effect has spending time living in Hawaii had on you? BROSNAN: It really doesn’t get much better than living in one of the most heavenly places on earth. It’s like Ireland except the heating is turned on! Living by the ocean, being able to breathe the sea air, enjoying all the nature that surrounds us – it’s truly magical. It’s also very peaceful and uncomplicated. We swim, we go on nature tours, I paint, Keely gardens, and we don’t worry about anything other than the well-being of our sons. Q: From your perspective, does life get any easier with age? BROSNAN: No, but you learn to deal with the highs and lows a bit better. I try to lead my life with as much grace and good humour as I can. I’ve lived a good life and made the most of my opportunities. I would like to think I worry less about things, but I’m not so sure... I’m happy now, but happiness is a fragile thing. Cover Media/Viva Press
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Post by eaz35173 on Apr 10, 2014 21:08:30 GMT -5
According to the person who posted this on IG, it is the new issue - for June 2014 ...
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Post by eaz35173 on Apr 12, 2014 11:22:34 GMT -5
www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10755167/Pierce-Brosnan-I-was-never-good-enough-as-Bond.htmlPierce Brosnan: 'I was never good enough as Bond'
Once he was Bond, in his latest role he's a retiree turned diamond robber. As The Love Punch opens, Pierce Brosnan discusses bad times, buffoonery, and acting his age. By Horatia Harrod10:55AM BST 12 Apr 2014 One morning last summer, Pierce Brosnan woke up alone and miserable in a hotel room in Serbia, and realised he was 60. “My wife had given me a great birthday party the night before in Malibu,” he says, “and sent me off with all my birthday cards and said, you must put them all up, which I dutifully did when I got in. The next morning all the birthday cards were there and there was one in the middle that said 60. Just that number alone…” He smiles ruefully. We are sitting in the vestibule of a grand hotel in Versailles, which is exactly the sort of place you’d imagine Pierce Brosnan would spend his days. There has always been an atmosphere of glamour about the man. Today he looks bronzed and handsome, in black cords and a black moleskin jacket. He has violet eyes. He speaks languorously, his accent a mixture of Irish and American. On screen, whether in the tuxedo of James Bond or the deck shoes sported by Mamma Mia’s Sam Carmichael, he has the grace and fleet-footedness of the actors of an earlier era. Brosnan has referred to this as his “smooth git number one” persona. It is something he plays on in his new film, The Love Punch, a goofy farce that nods to the Bond movies with its glamorous globe-trotting locations (London, Paris, the French Riviera) and frenetic chase sequences. Except that the cars are dinky hatchbacks and the movie’s central diamond heist is carried out by a group of retirees – Brosnan, Emma Thompson, Timothy Spall and Celia Imrie – more likely to provision themselves with a round of egg mayonnaise sandwiches than a gun. Oh, and the plot revolves around stolen pensions. “It was enormous fun,” says Brosnan. “No acting required. Just show up and have a good time, really.” The plot may not make much sense, but the four leads are game enough, squeezing themselves into wetsuits and discussing bunions and prostates and scuttling off during the action for loo breaks. Thompson and Brosnan hold the film together as a happily divorced former husband and wife. “She is so beguiling, so bedazzling and of great heart and kinship, it’s easy to fall in love with her,” says Brosnan. She looks incredibly attractive in the film, I say. “She is,” he says. “She lets it all hang out at the same time. She’s a clown, really. We talked a lot because we both studied clowning. She studied mime in Paris, I studied mime in England. We both had a background in buffoonery and slapstick which lent itself to the high jinks of The Love Punch.” It’s interesting, too, to see a Hollywood star playing against a romantic lead his own age, when the tendency seems to be to cast older leading men with women 20 years younger. Are we in Europe less squeamish about the idea that older people might find each other attractive? “Oh, absolutely,” says Brosnan. “It’s so manicured and codified in America; they don’t really venture into the realms of reality when it comes to the relationships of men and women; they go to the market of youth.” Does it feel odd, I wonder, when you’re cast against a woman half your age? “I have no problems with that whatsoever! No, I don’t!” He laughs. “But I think I’d feel a little…” He winces. “Actually I did that in a film that’s not out yet, How to Make Love Like an Englishman. In it, Jessica Alba and I are lovers; so when the curtain goes up, everyone knows that she’s far too young; and I as an Oxford professor of the Romantic period know that she’s too young, but it doesn’t matter. So you have a get-out.” Because it’s self-aware, I say? “Yeah. But I do love the notion of the younger woman, as I’m now the older man. You see it in men, that fear that the clock is ticking, the clock is ticking, and women become more and more beautiful, every age group. It just becomes this lustfulness of yearning and want. There are just so many gorgeous women and your attitude to time and the ticking of it, and what could have been.” Brosnan’s own experience is rather at odds with this wolfish talk, because he could be described as a committed monogamist. He was married first to Cassandra Harris, who died in 1991 of ovarian cancer, at the age of 43, and is about to celebrate his 20th wedding anniversary with his second wife, Keely Shaye Smith. “I was 23, 24, when I first married,” he says. “There was a wildness before then, and there was a wildness after I lost my first wife, there were a number of years there. Not many. But I enjoy married life; it gives me balance and continuity and steadfastness that helps my creativity. I think if I allowed myself to go nuts, I don’t know… it could be dangerous.” Brosnan spent the first 11 years of his life in Navan, a town 30 miles from Dublin. His father, Thomas, left his mother, Mary, when Brosnan was two; the young Brosnan was shuttled between friends and grandparents and the Christian Brothers, a group whose brutality towards the children in their care was the subject of a newspaper expose in 1964. (Brosnan has spoken in the past of the “paddybats, the straps that would fly out of the soutane like vipers’ tongues, the beatings amid the prayers”.) In the same year, Mary was able to send for her son to join her in England, where she had sought to make a new life. “It was extremely courageous of her to get out of the mangled lifestyle of Catholicism and shaming, and find a life for herself and myself,” says Brosnan. “I wouldn’t have had my career if she’d stayed in Ireland and been persecuted for being a single mother in the Fifties, by the church and the gossip of the town.” Last year Brosnan made what he calls a “pilgrimage” to Navan. He visited the bungalow built by his grandfather in which he spent many years of his boyhood. He looks pained when we talk about it. “It’s a cesspool,” he says. “It’s just a sea of beer bottles and beer cans. There are no windows; it’s just the shell of a house. They let all the local kids and druggies go in there. It was a tree-lined beautiful avenue, right on the River Boyne. It was just awful.” He sighs heavily. Brosnan is working harder than ever – he’s made seven films in the past two years, including the one shooting at the moment in Versailles, in which he plays a loose approximation of Louis XIV. His palpable weariness is offset by a dignified reserve. It’s a combination that makes me loath to ask about the most recent tragedy he has endured – the death of his adopted daughter, Charlotte, who died last summer, aged 42, of the same cancer that killed her mother. I ask how he has coped with difficult periods in his personal and professional life. “Faith,” he says, unexpectedly, “I have a strong faith, being Catholic Irish, that has been maintained throughout my life. I enjoy the ritual of church, prayer. I’m not consistent in it, but it’s within me. The dark times and the troubles, they’ll come regardless. You just hope you have the strength and courage to address them and endure. You want to live as many lives as possible in one, you want to do as much as you can.” It was acting that offered salvation to Brosnan when he was a young man. He was working as a commercial artist in Putney – “drawing straight lines, watering the spider plants, making cups of tea” – when someone suggested that he visit the Ovalhouse theatre company in south London. “I knew that I’d found sanctuary when I went there,” he says, “and I knew I’d found a lifestyle that enabled me to be many people all at the same time and to explore my own fractured life.” He dabbled in experimental theatre, doing plays on the underground and almost getting arrested at a Rolling Stones gig for, as he puts it, “getting in the way, loitering and trying to do puppet theatre activities”. The hero of his youth was Steve McQueen: he worshipped him for “the cool factor”. Brosnan loved being part of a stage company, but he wanted to be a movie star. His first wife, also an actor, suggested they try their luck in America. “We took out a second mortgage,” he says, “hopped on a plane to America, got an agent, got a car from the Rent-a-Wreck, went for my first interview and it was for Remington Steele, and that was it.” To play the dandyish private investigator, Brosnan watched Cary Grant movies, trying to imitate his pace and effortlessness. In reality, he says, he’s “very easily flustered, thrown off – I lose my way like most people”. He crafted a niche as a leading man in a way that seemed entirely natural, yet still felt at heart like a character actor. And he likes to subvert his smooth Bond persona – he does so in The Love Punch, but think too of his roles as the manipulative MI6 agent in The Tailor of Panama (2001), or as the hitman in The Matador (2005), sipping margaritas and strutting through a hotel lobby dressed only in cowboy boots and black underpants. “The leading man arena can be fairly vacant and vacuous,” he says. “Who the hell am I within this role or on the page? They want you to bring your own persona, and that gets a little tricky at times, when it’s just you bringing yourself to a role which is thinly written.” As we are talking, a suave young Frenchman stops in front of our table. “James Bond,” he says. “In another life,” replies Brosnan, and shakes his hand. This is not an infrequent occurrence. Being Bond was like being “an ambassador to a small nation”, says Brosnan. “It’s the gift that keeps on giving, that allowed me to create my own production company and make my own movies.” His sons – he has three, one by his first wife, and two by his second – often complain that he won’t watch the Bond movies with them; his feelings towards the role are equivocal. “I felt I was caught in a time warp between Roger and Sean,” he says, “It was a very hard one to grasp the meaning of, for me. The violence was never real, the brute force of the man was never palpable. It was quite tame, and the characterisation didn’t have a follow-through of reality, it was surface. But then that might have had to do with my own insecurities in playing him as well.” Has he ever re-watched the movies? He mock-shudders. “I have no desire to watch myself as James Bond. ‘Cause it’s just never good enough.” He laughs mirthlessly. “It’s a horrible feeling.” Last year, Brosnan produced and starred in a film called The November Man, an adaptation of Bill Granger’s thriller There Are No Spies, which marks a return to the genre that made his name. “There’s enough time between my being James Bond and now,” he says. “Daniel [Craig] is James Bond; I was James Bond; I think there’s enough room on the stage to elbow my way in and find some audience.” Could he be beginning a later life action-man renaissance, à la Liam Neeson? I mention that there’s been talk of him doing the next film in The Expendables, the geriatric action movie franchise. He rolls his eyes. “It was idle dinner conversation with [the producer] Avi Lerner. He said, ‘do you want to be in it?’ I said, ‘sure, Avi, let me have a look at the script’. But it’s the internet, it all snowballs. What I did say to him was if you want to do a female version of The Expendables, I’ll be in that one.” After he’s finished this next film, he plans to go to his home in Kauai, Hawaii, where he spends his time when not in Malibu or shooting a film. There he kayaks, gardens, hikes, surfs and paints. He has no intention of working less. “I’ve taken time off in the past, and the phone didn’t ring.” He laughs. “Mr Obama likes to take as much as he can get out of your pocket, you know. We voted for this fellow and it’s like, let’s just pull asunder what you’ve built. So you have to work, and I love to work. Nothing comes from nothing.” The Love Punch is released today
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Post by eaz35173 on Apr 20, 2014 20:52:54 GMT -5
www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-04-18/the-love-punch-pierce-brosnan-emma-thompson-and-celia-imrie-reveal-their-first-kissesThe Love Punch: Pierce Brosnan, Emma Thompson and Celia Imrie reveal their first kisses
Romantic advice and stories of young love from the stars of the British romcom
Pierce BrosnanWhen I was 11, I moved from the banks of the Boyne in Ireland to a comprehensive school with 2,000 kids in Putney. Almost immediately I developed a crush on a girl called Angela. It ended badly: over the free milk at break a boy made fun of me for liking her, an altercation ensued and I ended up in the headmaster’s office – and thus began my education of love and life in London. I was supposedly the handsome one out of my buddies, but somehow it never really worked out for me. I was too reserved. I didn’t have the witty patter. My first sweetheart was Carol who lived across the river in Fulham. She bedazzled my 15-year-old senses: her hair, her
brown eyes, her soft cheeks, the
delightful way she smiled. I’d walk her home and kiss her goodnight on the doorstep. As for my demise, I seem to remember another boy who played soccer better than I could came into the picture. Time went on and I was at drama school. I lived with a lovely girl for three years until she had to go back to Canada. I was supposed to join her but life never took me in that direction. I only ever saw her again once – many years later – by which time I was James Bond. I’ve never gone looking for advice.
I’ve just stumbled into love and stumbled
out of love. Luckily I’ve stumbled into love with some great women. I was very fortunate to marry really strong women who I made laugh and who made me laugh. These days I’m happily married for the second time. I met Keely on a beach in Mexico 20 years ago – which reminds me, our anniversary is just around the corner. The greatest wedding I’ve ever been to is ours. I’d wanted a simple affair on Malibu beach but Keely wanted to do it properly so I found her an abbey in Ireland. The reception was a fantastic affair in Ashford Castle, County Mayo: 120 people, three days of the Chieftains, Loreena McKennitt, fireworks... “Happily ever after” is an illusion. People break your heart. People move on. People leave you. You just have to know how to roll with the punches. A sense of humour doesn’t go amiss, either. I still don’t think advice is much use when the heartstrings have been plucked, but I would say to that bedazzled 15-year-old boy: “Don’t rush. Take your time. Life is long and you want to have as many chapters in the book as possible.” Emma ThompsonMy first kiss was upside down, hanging off a clothes horse at Beckford primary school. A boy called Matthew Fox and I were playing rabbits in the school play and he just leaned in... But if we’re talking tongues, it was with Sam Campbell at the village disco. I was 12 and he was 17. I followed him around for the rest of the Easter holiday and he was so embarrassed because he’d had no idea how young I was! A year later, my friend Patrick Spottiswoode (he runs the Globe theatre now) took me to see The Poseidon Adventure. It was the perfect choice for a first date thanks to that scene where the man’s face is burnt off: I was able to make a noise of distress and he was able to put his arm round me. What Paddy didn’t realise was that I was desperately in love with Gene Hackman in that film – I cried buckets when he died. The first time I properly had my heart broken was when I was 16. He was a New Zealander who said he was going back to go to university, but he wasn’t; he went to university here and I found out. I’ve had my heart broken quite a lot, actually. For me, broken means that feeling of: “I will never ever recover from this.” The notion of “happily ever after” is bonkers. People aren’t honest because of the desire to maintain the romantic ideal. Recently, I was talking about Alan Rickman’s adulterous role in Love Actually and I got into trouble for daring to ask: “Don’t you think we might have become desperately punitive about monogamy?” And, my goodness, the furore I provoked! I avoid weddings because I don’t like parties. Having said that, I enjoyed both my weddings – very different though they were. My grandmother used to say your heart is no good until it’s been broken ten times. I know what she means: the cicatrices shape the way in which you navigate all your relationships. So what wise words would I impart to my younger self? “If whoever it is says he doesn’t love you, believe him! Do not think that you will somehow manage to persuade him to love you.” Celia Imrie
My enduring memory of my first kiss is that I wasn’t mad about the tongue business. I was 11 and a terrible innocent. “What’s going on now?” I wondered. “God almighty! I’m sure this isn’t right...” When I was 14 or so I fell for Clark Gable in Gone with the Wind. Cary Grant followed hot on his heels because he was funny and that twinkle has always made me weak at the knees. The truth is I can’t remember my first date but I do recall my mother palming me off on a boyfriend of hers when I was 17. I’m sure
he was a spy. He lived in this very
chichi flat in Sloane Square and
plied me with dry martinis.
I remember thinking: “Christ,
where’s the door? Thanks,
mum.” I got out, but it
was all rather peculiar. My
mother was like Mrs Bennet
in Pride and Prejudice and I
am the only one of four sisters
who hasn’t got married. I’ve
rather determinedly not. I think I’m
rather a coward because I fear a trap. The actor’s life is glorious but it is not normal to be always going away, meeting new people, kissing each other. This sounds terribly pretentious but it’s true: being an actor is like having two lovers who get jealous of each other. I wouldn’t be very good about having a lover on a film set, for instance. I can’t because I can’t mix the two. I love what Bette Davis – my all-time heroine – once said: “Never rely on somebody else for your happiness.” And if I could go back and advise that adolescent swooning over Cary Grant, I’d say: “There is no harm in flirting, Celia, but do be careful.” The Love Punch is in cinemas from Friday 18 April
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Post by eaz35173 on May 6, 2014 18:56:07 GMT -5
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Post by rosafermu on May 7, 2014 2:59:54 GMT -5
Fabulous !!! Thanks eaz.
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Post by eaz35173 on May 22, 2014 14:22:44 GMT -5
The interview isn't up yet, but here is a post from the interviewer's IG ... From @alexcoheninla Hear Pierce Brosnan describe the role of art in his life today on www.taketwoshow.org========= It's a doodle he drew for her during the interview
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Post by eaz35173 on May 22, 2014 15:54:24 GMT -5
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Post by juljustik on May 23, 2014 0:47:13 GMT -5
Thank you, eaz!!! I like Pierce Brosnan's style of drawing!
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Post by eaz35173 on May 28, 2014 13:02:12 GMT -5
Talking about love, relationships, and Keely ...
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Post by eaz35173 on Jul 2, 2014 7:59:27 GMT -5
A really nice interview with The Daily Beast ... www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/02/pierce-brosnan-s-life-after-bond-from-action-hero-to-losing-his-daughter-to-cancer.htmlPierce Brosnan’s Life After Bond: From Action Hero to Losing His Daughter to Cancer
The actor is the quintessence of smooth, first as Remington Steele, then James Bond. He talks about grief after his daughter Charlotte’s death, mortality, and playing the action hero.
Bluntly put, there is not much good to be said about Pierce Brosnan’s new film. A Long Way Down, out on limited release July 11, also stars Toni Collette, Imogen Poots, and Aaron Paul from Breaking Bad, and it’s about a quartet of people who meet one night as they prepare to commit suicide by jumping from a building in London. Except they don’t, and they form some kind of pact to support each other in embracing life. The film, adapted from Nick Hornby’s novel of the same name, is a cacophonous jangle of wrong, from the glibness of the script to the treatment of suicide and suicidal impulses, to even what led these people to consider taking their own lives. What might have made for plausible dark melancholy, a gallows mordancy, on the page translates on to the big screen as wincing farce. You simply don’t buy into its weird, inappropriate breeziness. And, crucially, you don’t understand this group. The critics have not been kind, with The Guardian calling A Long Way Down “fantastically unconvincing.” Still, the actors do their best, especially Brosnan and Collette. The Daily Beast meets the charming, extremely handsome Brosnan in a New York hotel suite. He is wearing a navy jacket, slim-fit jeans, a crisp white shirt, and a snazzy pair of blue suede shoes. Brosnan, 61, has a close-clipped beard, and tufty salt and pepper hair. He was born in Ireland (his accent is a soft meeting of Californian and Irish lilts) and became famous first as ’80s TV detective Remington Steele. Global fame beckoned when he debuted as Brit master spy James Bond, for four movies, in 1995. His other films include Mrs. Doubtfire, Mamma Mia, and The Thomas Crown Affair. With us, he talked about the critical drubbing received by A Long Way Down, as well as playing Bond, the trend of older actors in action movies, and the tragedy of losing his 41-year-old adopted daughter, Charlotte, in June last year to ovarian cancer, the same disease that killed his first wife and Charlotte’s mother, Cassandra, in 1991, when she was 43. Brosnan has seven films coming up, including The Love Punch, with Emma Thompson, The Coup, with Owen Wilson, and The Moon and the Sun, playing Louis XIV. Those are pretty fabulous blue suede shoes.
Thanks, I had to buy them when I saw them. You don’t live in New York?
No, I live in California. I’ve lived there for 30 years. I went there for two weeks and stayed a lifetime. It’s the longest two weeks of my life. I live between there and Hawaii. I can hear everyone back in London saying, “Oooh, yeah, you fucking sod. Lucky bugger. Bugger off.” Suicide is a difficult theme to tackle. Were you concerned about getting it right and playing it right?
I’m very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and passion. He is adroit and dry, and balances humor with the humanity of life. I was confident we would tonally hit a high mark. When you see on the page one man trying to get a ladder into an elevator to go and commit suicide, that has a certain tonality of humor which lends itself to the rest of the piece. It’s really about the resilience and vulnerability of these people—two key words to people who find themselves desperate and mangled by their circumstances. Have you ever felt like that?
No, thank god, not ever. I’ve certainly felt the hardship of life on many occasions, but not to the point of desperation that I want to throw myself under a bus or off a building. I thought the film had a great heartbeat of hope and passion for life, and they save each other, they become their own survival raft, their own saviors. The critics’ response has not been kind. Does that bother you?
I don’t read any of them: good, bad, or indifferent. I used to devour everything. I would find myself on the floor just diminished to a pulp by some harsh words aimed at my performance, and if they said great things, it was very hard to hold on to those with any sense of reality. If they think you’re great, it only lasts so long. I heard they were very harsh to us. Fuck ’em, move on. Really, I love the film. It has its own heartbeat and a sincerity and entertainment value, and is quite uplifting. What do they say, anyway? Well, you heard they were harsh. Do you really want to do this?
(Laughs) No, no. You always hope for success and glory, you wish for everyone involved in the film to come out smelling of roses…but that’s just the way the dice fall in this capricious game. You have a big action film coming up next, The November Man. Is it fun blowing things up?
We got away with it greatly on the streets of Belgrade, Serbia, and Montenegro. I think there’s been enough time between my James Bond and this…I thought it was worth investigating. There’s a whole bunch of older action stars doing these films now.
Yes, if you have courage, desire, and gumption to do it, why not? Sylvester Stallone has done the guys proud with The Expendables, which they’ve asked me to be part of. Will you?
Sure, if the script is good. It’s fun. Did you miss being James Bond?
It was 10 years of my life, a decade of time in my career which was exhilarating and very rewarding, and it’s the gift that keeps giving, in the sense of “Once a Bond, always a Bond.” And it allows you to travel the world and enjoy life as this character. He is far-reaching in his persona, and once you embrace that you can have great fun with it. I don’t miss it. I knew there would be work to be done if I got it right and made a mark on the page. I knew the work to be done would be not so much to distance myself from it, but to find another path to create other characters, so the audience could see me just as an actor. I don’t know if I achieved that or not, but I try not to get hung up about it. Is there a secret brotherhood of Bonds?
I think there’s mutual respect and interconnectedness, but I don’t pick up the phone and speak to Sean [Connery]. I’ve met him once in my life. Daniel [Craig] is the one I had most rapport with, because we were ships passing. We sat and talked back in the day before he entered the stage with his magnificent portrayal as Bond. And emerging out of the sea in those trunks?
Hahaha. An iconic moment. Yeah, I didn’t do that. That was not my style. You’re in wonderful shape.
I work out, I paddleboard, play tennis, I chip away, trying to keep up. Was turning 60 a big deal?
Turning 60 had an impact on my heart and soul, I must say, because you’re dealing with time: past, present, and future. You suddenly realize you’ve come down the road quite a ways. I embrace it with energy and passion. In the last two years, I’ve made seven movies. It wasn’t a conscious choice, just the way the cards fell. Do you think about your own mortality?
Well, I’ve always thought about it, actually. I suppose being Irish, Catholic, being an actor, reading the history and literature of life, playing characters, how can you not investigate and interrogate your own space and time on the planet? It’s good to contemplate one’s time in life, and the passing of your own earthly being. I find the Buddhists doing it. Before they go to bed, they turn a cup upside down, to show they have no expectations for tomorrow and always gratitude. Is Buddhism a faith of yours?
Yes, it is. [He shows me a necklace.] I travel with these beads, the Mala, and a set of rosary beads, so I’m covered on all sides. I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I’ve had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society. I went to Dharamsala and met His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] there. Has Buddhism helped with your grief around your daughter’s death?
It all helps, it’s important to have faith, it’s essential to have faith. Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life. Yesterday was the first anniversary of Charlotte’s passing. Far too young. But there are younger still that go. But you just have to have faith and strength and courage to embrace the day. Somehow out of all that pain there is a beauty in it. And both she and her mother died of ovarian cancer?
Shocking, isn’t it? She really struggled and fought hard and gloriously, always for us all around. She wanted us not to be in pain for her…Charlotte Emily. Gorgeous girl. You have seven movies coming up. Are you a workaholic?
It just appears that. I like what my drama teacher called “action and recovery,” and so I like being idle and just painting, and sitting and doing nothing but looking at the waves.
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Post by eaz35173 on Jul 7, 2014 15:44:17 GMT -5
www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.phpInterview: Pierce Brosnan Looks A Long Way Down Source: Edward Douglas July 7, 2014 From Remington Steele to James Bond to Julian Noble in The Matador and a singing role in the musical Mama Mia!, Irish actor Pierce Brosnan has established himself as a go-to actor who pulls off the role of dashing and debonair leading man in a way we haven't seen since the days of Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy. The unsurprisingly busy actor can now be seen in the adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel A Long Way Down, playing Martin Sharp, a shamed morning television host accused of sleeping with an underage girl. One New Year's Eve, Martin goes to the top of a London building to commit suicide where he encounters three very different people, played by Toni Collette, Aaron Paul and Imogen Poots, and the foursome become fast friends who help each other through their respective issues. ComingSoon.net spoke with Brosnan last week about the movie, some general career questions as well as asking about the announced Mrs. Doubtfire sequel and the rumors of him appearing in an "Expendables" movie. ComingSoon.net: "A Long Way Down" has been on my radar for a couple of years, ever since I talked to Aaron Paul at Toronto. He may have been on his way to film this. As a Nick Hornby fan, I was excited to see it brought to life, so did it take a long time for this movie to come together?
Pierce Brosnan: My agent sent me the script, I liked the script very much. I read the book. Nick Hornby is someone who I've been aware of for many years, not that familiar with his writing, but read the script, read the book. The producers, Finola and Amanda are so accomplished and have a wonderful way about them. Pascal Chaumeil, I loved his work as a director and we set sail, Toni Collette, Aaron and Imogen. So you look at all the ingredients and say, "I'm in," and very happily so, very happily so. I'm very proud of the movie. I think it has a heartbeat of entertainment and investigation of people's lives, which is quite unique, dealing with the issue of suicide. CS: In a very Nick Hornby kind of way, though. He deals with a lot of dark things in his books, but he always finds a way for light to enter in some ways. Did you read the book or the screenplay first?
Brosnan: I read the screenplay. They sent me it. It came in and I can't remember exactly how or when it came in or how it came, but it was the script before the book. CS: A movie adaptation of a book is always going to be different. Did anyone say, "Stay away from the book?" Or, did you want to see how the author intended your character to be.
Brosnan: No, Jack Thorne did an incredible adaptation. It's not an easy book to adapt, and I think he acquitted himself grandly. No one gave me any roadmap on how to approach the material--you find that yourself--so in a way, you kind of have some kind of ownership over it. CS: Martin's an interesting character. Maybe it's British, but it feels like there are more celebrities or famous people in Britain who become the targets of paparazzi or tabloids there. I feel there are more British celebrities who have the type of falling outs that Martin goes through. I'm not sure why.
Brosnan: Well, it's a smaller landscape than the Americas, and so, they have a wonderful way of building you up and pulling you asunder - at the same time, sometimes. There are a number of characters that I watch their work from old TV shows and morning breakfast shows. I was ironically sitting at the Colombe d'Or in the south of France reading this particular script of "A Long Way Down" and having watched a particular talk show host from breakfast TV. He walked into the restaurant. So, there he was, with his wife and sister, a humorous little detail of preparation. CS: Did you get the impression that Martin was good at his job and was popular?
Brosnan: I don't think Martin was very good at his job. He knew he wasn't very good at his job. He was probably a failed actor who stumbled into the world of breakfast TV and was more enamored by making people laugh and playing the buffoon within it all, and then, got found out, really. CS: I talked to Nick Hornby before, actually for "An Education," which he wrote the screenplay for. How involved is he in a movie like this? Did you get to meet him at all during the process?
Brosnan: It was at the read-through, which was at the BAFTA offices. It's a glorious kind of occasion and ceremonial and very proper. He was there and he read a number of the subsidiary roles, and that was it. That was it. I never really saw the man again. We had a dinner and Nick let us get on with it. I think he took great faith and confidence in Jack Thorne, who did the adaptation, and thought that it was in capable hands. CS: It's funny that this movie's been on my radar since I spoke to Aaron and I've also spoken to Imogen in the last year about it, and I never realized Pascal directed it. I'm actually a huge fan of "Heartbreaker" as well, so that was an added bonus that it was directed by a director I liked.
Brosnan: I like Pascal very much. He and I have a film. He has a story that I would like to do, so we became good friends. I think he did a brilliant job with making this film live up to its potential. I don't read reviews, but I hear that there was a harshness taken to the piece back in England, which I'm not quite sure where that stems from. It's such a volatile issue, that of suicide. CS: I spoke to Richard Shepard who did a really great movie with Jude Law, a very British movie. Richard's not British, but he was saying he thinks the British have an issue with British films that aren't directed by Brits.
Brosnan: I think the crosshair's right on poor Pascal or maybe all of us, really, just that, how dare they let someone else but a Brit direct? I know Richard and I know that piece and I was going to be in it, but the circumstances didn't allow me to (do it). But there you go. CS: You've worked with a number of foreign filmmakers from Pascal to Susanne Bier and I guess Roman Polanski, though I'm not sure he's considered a foreign filmmaker since he was working in Hollywood a long time ago. Do you notice any difference between the way they work?Brosnan: No, the essentials are always the same, really, the initial impulses, the same as everyone comes to the material wanting to do the best job possible. Someone like Roman Polanski comes with a lifetime of achievement, cinematically. It's always exhilarating to be in the company of great filmmakers, writers, producers, directors. So, I'm a journeyman actor. I'm as passionate now as I was when I was 24, about the doing of it all, it comes with a certain grace and, I don't know, passion as you don't hold the reigns as tightly. So they love you, they don't love you, they half like you, they're not sure. All I have is the process of making it, finding the material, being passionate about the material, doing the work to the best of my ability, and moving on. CS: So you go to see your movies at the premiere and that's it?
Brosnan: That's it. I don't watch it again. I don't, which my boys chastise me, especially in the realm of James Bond. I have no desire to look at myself. You know, I'll give it maybe a few minutes. It's not pleasant. CS: I totally can understand that. I do these four-minute TV interviews and I certainly have no interest in seeing myself on screen.
Brosnan: Why do I do it? The joy is meeting the artist and investigating the moments that you have or the weeks, the days, the months that you have in the character. Then, did you have a good time? That's all you have, is the process, and the rest is out of your control. CS: You've kind of been producing some of the movies you've been in recently. I know you were involved as a producer in Roger Donaldson's upcoming movie ("The November Man") and you did the same with "The Matador." Can you talk about the decision of getting involved in that aspect and how involved you get as a producer?
Brosnan: When it's done from a friendship, came from a friendship with Beau Marie St. Clair, who is a producer and is my producing partner and dear friend. When "GoldenEye," the James Bond, my first one came out and it had the success that it had, we said, "Let's make movies. Let us step forth and create our own projects." It's as simple as that, really. So, from "The Matador," "Thomas Crown," "Evelyn," "The Greatest," "November Man," it has allowed me to create a career and create work for myself in the world of cinema. It's that simple. CS: But you seem to be fairly busy. I think at a certain point actors can start to cut back on the number of movies they do, but in the past few years, you've been doing three, four movies a year.
Brosnan: Yes. CS: I guess a lot of it comes from your passion to keep making these movies.
Brosnan: There's a want, a desire, a passion and a need to work. Luckily, there is a need actually, because when you have a need and a hunger and you have great want and a desire within that fabric of your day-to-day life, and how you provide for your family. So it's fairly, fairly basic. Luckily, I have some talent, knowledge of what I do. CS: For instance, let's say you end up making a movie where you're paid so much money that you don't have to work for a year, would you do that or would you still want to keep at it?
Brosnan: If I made so much money from one movie, then that would be another scenario. CS: It's definitely a more theoretical question
Brosnan: To be honest, I probably would make that movie and take the $20 million or $25 million and then go around the Greek islands or I have no idea. I have no idea. CS: We'll talk again after you make that $20 million movie.
Brosnan: (laughs) Who knows if that should ever transpire again? But you have to be tough as all boots to play this game and stay at the table. But more importantly, to be passionate and connected and curious about your artform and how do you do the best job possible with the material and the work at hand? CS: "November Man" is an interesting case, because I think over the last few years you've tried to stay away from doing James Bond spy type of stuff, very deliberately. You were in some romantic comedies, including a recent one with Emma Thompson. In "November Man," you play an ex-CIA agent and it has more action.
Brosnan: Well, we optioned that book five years ago, so the gestation period has been one of making the material to the best of our ability and the timing and the financing. So that's the timeframe. I think there was no set plan five years ago. If the stars had been aligned, we would've made it five years ago. But it came about the way it did. Roger Donaldson, being a good friend, and the material being, in some fighting shape and our friendship certainly gave it a real pulse of filmmaking. So that comes out very shortly. Relativity has bought it, so I think they're going to give it a good push. I think they'll support us. They already have, it seems. They've been very passionate about making this film that will be seen by many people. CS: I like Roger Donaldson also. I think he's a really talented director.
Brosnan: Roger is a really fine director. He gave his heart to myself and to the piece, which comes from a friendship and the respect of each other's work. So, we'll see. CS: I guess one of the odder rumors I've heard--and I guess you can either confirm it or deny it--is that you're going to be in an "Expendables" movie. You see the trailer for "The Expendables 3" and you see Kelsey Grammer and all these interesting names, so I can definitely see you doing something like that.
Brosnan: Sure. I said to Avi Lerner, "Look, you know, if it works out, Avi, you know where to find me. If you have a good script, you know where to find me. If you still want me, you know where to find me." It's as simple as that, really. I had a grand time at his company. Sylvester Stallone is the one that's given us these wonderful platforms for actors who've had careers, had careers, to be able to go play and have fun and to entertain, to bring a bunch of guys together who've saved the world, fought the bad guys, put them all on the same stage. That's crazy good. CS: I'm not sure Kelsey Grammer has saved the world that many times.
Brosnan: But what Kelsey does in the most glorious way. He's a fantastic actor, Kelsey Grammer. You don't have that kind of career without having a talent, without having something to say and to give to an audience. It's just about entertainment. It really can change the world, and that's great, but "The Expendables?" Yeah, I'd love to do "The Expendables." CS: You mentioned it would be fun. Is that a big factor, because one would expect that the script wouldn't be Shakespeare.
Brosnan: No. It's just a kick in the pants to go off there to Serbia. I made James McTeigue's "Survivor" there. I've done seven movies in the last two years, so that's a fair bit of work, two of which I've produced and made with Irish DreamTime, and the rest were gigs that came up and it's just the order of the cards. So Avi was someone who I'd heard about and his movies have always got big, brash entertainment value to them. We'll see. CS: I don't know if you've heard about this, but did you hear that "Mrs. Doubtfire" was one of the most aired movies on cable last year with some insane number.
Brosnan: Seriously… CS: And because it was so successful on cable they began talking about making a sequel to it.
Brosnan: I heard that. I've heard that rumor. CS: I was curious, do you feel like your character Stu from the first movie has a place in the sequel? Do you think they're going to try to bring him back?
Brosnan: Listen, if they want me back, then great. Let's read the script and see if it's, you know, doable. CS: People love the movie because obviously they wouldn't show it on cable so much if they didn't.
Brosnan: Beloved movie. Yeah, it's a classic in its own right. I think it will be passed down from generation to generation as all good movies should be, father to son, mother to daughter, whether it be "Mamma Mia!," "Mrs. Doubtfire," "James Bond," that's the joy of moviemaking, you know? It's a wonderful life. It's a wonderful life. The critics tore it apart, but the people at the end of the day say, "We love it. We love you. We love the movie and we want to see it." So that's the alchemy. CS: So you're pretty satisfied with the legacy you've created so far? If you get a $20 million job and retire would you pretty happy with what you've left behind?
Brosnan: (Laughs) My wife would. I think my children would. They'd like to see more of me, because I'm a working actor, so I have to go out there and make a living. Luckily, I'm passionate about it and want to do what I do, so that's the gift.
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Post by eaz35173 on Aug 16, 2014 10:18:50 GMT -5
This looks like it took place after an interview session for Talking Tech with Jefferson Graham (he has a column in USA Today)...
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Post by eaz35173 on Aug 16, 2014 10:48:34 GMT -5
September's Men's Journal ... www.mensjournal.com/magazine/the-last-word-pierce-brosnan-20140812The Last Word: Pierce Brosnan
By Sean Woods Sep 2014 The Irish Bond on hangovers, hardship, and the role that shaped his career. What adventure or journey changed your life?
In 1981, I borrowed 2,000 pounds – a lot of money back then – paid 50 quid for a seat, packed my own sandwich, and hopped on a plane to America. It was a mighty leap, but one that paid off. A week later, I got a job called Remington Steele. What's the best advice you've ever received?Joseph Sargent, a director and dear friend, said, "Just remember you're always going to have to test for someone." You're always going to have to prove yourself, because acting is such a capricious game. You have to stay strong and hungry, humble and courageous. And that doesn't change. If you get too nonchalant, then it just goes away. So I have to do as much today as I did when I was 24, 25. I just do it at a different pace with a little more knowledge in the back pocket. You were raised by a single mother in 1950s Ireland and spent time living with a foster family. What did that teach you?
It's hard on paper, but it had its own beauty to it. There was the journey to England as a boy of 11, and that was a powerful landscape for me. You learn pretty quickly how to assimilate in a new territory. Certainly they never let you forget that you are Irish and you're an immigrant. When I was at school, they just knew me as Irish. You know, that was my name. Didn't want to say "Pierce," so I wore it as an emblem. It was great. I was in. I'm an Irish James Bond, and there's delightful irony in that. You were raised Catholic – what role does religion play in a man's life?
Well, the Christian Brothers were quite ferocious, and yet the underlying faith was always so beautiful for me – serving Mass, the whole theatricality of it. You know, the adage "Once a Catholic, always a Catholic," I suppose. Ultimately it has to do with kindness. My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving. What advice would you give to the younger you?
Don't worry – it's going to be OK. Honestly. I'll be right as rain. There's always anxiety – the anxiety of being an actor – and that goes with you every time you walk onto a set. Sometimes it comes easy; sometimes it don't. You learn to live with that. Was James Bond hard to leave behind?
I don't want to get rid of him; it was the most memorable time, a truly life-changing experience. There was a certain wrench when it came to a rather abrupt end. But you just take that phone call, and you move on. And, you know, it's just business. It's truly that. What role should vanity play in a person's life?
A healthy one. It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly. You've suffered terrible tragedies: Your first wife and your daughter both died of cancer. How should a person handle loss?
Well, it just endures. You learn to find a place for it, and you can always go to it. Hopefully you have good friends and family around, and I did. It's big. Life is charged with feeling and loss, and you know you're going to suffer one way or the other. You just hope you can find peace with the pain. What's the best thing for a hangover?
Well, I think the Bloody Mary still stands tall on the top of anyone's list. But that's not how I'm starting my day. In recent years, you've fought against whaling and climate change. When should a man take a stand?
It's essential that everyone take a stand for the Earth. It's essential that we stand up for the air we breathe, the water we drink. How should a man handle getting older?
Stay fit. Stay constant. Stay in touch with your emotions. And have a sense of humor.
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Post by eaz35173 on Aug 16, 2014 21:19:46 GMT -5
Anyone fluent in Reddit? I just saw this tweet and not sure what it means ... Patrick ReBorn @itsparto Pierce Brosnan AMA (GoldenEye, Mrs. Doubtfire, Remington Steele) Aug 20, 12pm EDT in r/IAmA ift.tt/1v2H6GQ ============== From what I gather, it looks like AMA means "ask me anything". Does this mean that Pierce will be answering questions live on Reddit on Aug 20th at noon?
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Post by eaz35173 on Aug 16, 2014 22:59:45 GMT -5
Found out a bit more on the AMA with Reddit ... www.reddit.com/r/JamesBond/comments/2dm65u/psa_pierce_brosnan_is_doing_an_ama_on_august_20/PSA: Pierce Brosnan is doing an AMA on August 20! (self.JamesBond) submitted 1 day ago by GetFreeCash Less than a month after Sean Bean's AMA on August 5, his GoldenEye costar Pierce Brosnan is scheduled to do a Reddit AMA at 12pm Eastern Standard Time (9am for North Americans on the West Coast, 5pm for any Britons) on Wednesday, August 20. As a large proportion of Reddit grew up with Brosnan as 007 in the nineties, I would expect this AMA to blow up pretty quickly. It would be wise to have your questions for Pierce at the ready and then quickly post them when the AMA thread goes live. Either way, I personally can't wait to see his answers!
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Post by eaz35173 on Aug 16, 2014 23:22:25 GMT -5
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Post by eaz35173 on Aug 19, 2014 11:40:44 GMT -5
Looks like Pierce will be fielding live questions on huffpostlive.com tomorrow (Aug 20) at 10am. I saw several tweets from the following person asking fans this question ... Erika Larose @erika_larose @___________ Hello! Are you interested in joining @huffpostlive via webcam tomorrow at 10 am EST to ask Pierce Brosnan questions? ================================== Wow, he's busy tomorrow .... GMA, Huff Post, Reddit AMA
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Post by eaz35173 on Aug 21, 2014 0:21:24 GMT -5
Here's the link to the Reddit AMA interview ... www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2e3av7/pierce_brosnan_keep_it_simple_actor_activist/Some things I learned .... His favorite tea is Earl Grey (and he explained how to brew a perfect pot of it) His favorite animal is a dog - and the latest addition to the family (Sage) was a rescue He thinks Devereaux would win in a fight with Bond He's curating his art to do a show sometime next year The "run by fruiting" we see in Mrs. Doubtfire is take #2 - Robin missed his head on the 1st take He became good friends with Rod Steiger while filming Mars Attacks He doesn't have a favorite super hero He likes his martinis straight up with a twist On The Coup and Survivor ... The Coup is really rocks, I must say. It's a powerful film by John Erick Dowdle and it's with Owen Wilson & Myself. and i just love this film. I think it will have people gasping. And it's kind of like a horror film, in some respects. And Survivor, with Milla Jovovich, for me it's a very dark character, who's completely and utterly a sadist. He's a killer. Very efficient killer. It was wonderful to work with James, the director, whose films I like very much. Favorite book is Grapes of Wrath He loves watches and has about 15 of them ... The one I'm wearing right now is Blancpain and it's from my wife. And has an inscription on the back of it, which says "Time flies on love's wings. Happy 50th." He likes all people in swivel chairs
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Post by eaz35173 on Aug 21, 2014 0:42:06 GMT -5
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