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Post by Barbara on Nov 5, 2004 1:46:55 GMT -5
Suddenly I am having images of Pierce with Woody Harrelson maybe, or or Michael Madsen.
I think he would have to be friends with them to start with, so I am trying to think who else is he is close to -- Ted Dansen maybe?
Also, keep in mind that if all I have heard about Pierce is true, he is funny to begin with, so if they can find someone brave enough to improv with him, and then find a director who will simply roll tape and let things go, it could work.
-- Barbara
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Post by Lauryn on Nov 5, 2004 2:30:24 GMT -5
Exactly. It has its own playground, or should I say playboy, dynamics.
I'd heard he plays -- though not about the very well part.<wink> Co-incidentally, I play that instrument, myself. (I come from good stock, musically speaking, though I'm the black sheep of the family for not turning pro.) On the evidence of his singing, I'd say PB isn't innately musical. (No cause for alarm! That can be said of a lot of professionals, too!) Rehearsal and coaching can get you so far, but go father and you have to have the ear, the timing, the feel for phrasing, etc. It's like talking. We can all converse, but not everyone can be a great conversationalist. Along similar acting lines, PB has great comic timing, but he doesn't quite have an all purpose ear. For accents for instance, LOL!
I shall ring him up and very sultrily ask him what's in his repertoire....
Or looking for a juicy pull quote.
This knack of his of pulling at a lower extremity might just give the unsuspecting headline-reading fan heart failure!
Eh? Not Colin Farrell? Really, it amazes me how anyone who's not massaging the stuff for news could believe he meant that one! Brosnan in Ireland accepting an Irish award touts a local boyo (and fellow honoree) for Bond. I'd say he's playing to the crowd like a seasoned politician. And you could hardly call it a ringing endorsement -- more a passing comment on Colin being Colin. Boys will be boys, etc.
And hey, Lloyd Nolan (playing a guy named Oxford Charlie) was in Lemon Drop Kid I. Another wink to bygone Cast of Steele days.
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Post by steeleinc on Nov 5, 2004 9:54:42 GMT -5
Viktoria, I went to your site, but I can't find any photos of the "Sunset" LA Premiere.
Debra
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Post by Ace on Nov 5, 2004 10:31:52 GMT -5
Debra, the photos are in the ATS Gallery section at the end. Telegraph: Goodbye, Mr Bond\ (Filed: 05/11/2004) Pierce Brosnan was surprised and saddened when he was unceremoniously dumped as agent 007. But, he tells John Hiscock, he's also finding it refreshingly liberating Pierce Brosnan confronts his future as an ex-James Bond with a touch of pique, a resigned sigh – and an unexpected feeling of liberation. After starring in four James Bond films – the four most financially successful of the 20-film franchise –he is being replaced, although no one seems to know quite when or by whom. As befits a man who fitted so neatly into the Bond image, Brosnan is neither shaken nor stirred by the sudden change in his fortunes. He is, however, "surprised, disappointed and saddened" at the way the axe came down. According to Brosnan, he was contracted for four films and was then asked by the producers, Barbara Broccoli and her half-brother Michael Wilson, if he was willing to star in a fifth. After that things became murky, and their decision to replace him and failure to find a director means they will not be able to meet the planned release date of November 18, 2005. "It's very hard to find the truth in a town called Hollywood, but before the last Bond film they invited me back for a fifth film and I said, `Yes, that's good, I'll do that and probably no more,' " Brosnan recalls. "Then everything stopped, and I had a phone call from my agent to say they had ceased negotiations. I asked why, and the producers said they didn't know how to continue, and I said, `Fair enough. Goodbye.' "It was good while it lasted. I wish them well, I wish the next man well, and that's really what happened." He is aware the Bond image will probably stick with him for the rest of his life, but he is not deterred by the prospect of a Bond-free future career. "I'm very proud of the 10 years in which I played Bond, and to feel any animosity or regret would be belittling myself, but do I get sick and tired of talking about Bond? Of course I do. It drives me nuts, but, when they get the next guy, I will just fade into the background quietly, and hopefully get on with my own career as an actor. "Surprised, disappointed and saddened as I was at the way it came down, there was also this amazing feeling of being free at last and the excitement of not having a safety net and security as an actor. When you have no safety net it spurs you on as an actor to challenge yourself." Hollywood rumours say that Brosnan priced himself out of the role by asking for too much money. "I wasn't asking for a percentage," he said. "I was asking for a good fee – an honest fee in terms of how much money they make and how much blood, sweat and tears I put into the role. I heard on the street that I might have outbid myself, but I don't think it was about money. It's very possible they wanted a younger man, but nobody told me that." Appropriately enough, considering we are talking of Hollywood and double dealings, sharks swim lazily by in an aquarium on the other side of the glass wall of the restaurant where we are meeting, at the giant, 2,300-room Atlantis resort on Paradise Island in the Bahamas where developer Sol Kurzner has created part-Disneyland and part Las Vegas. It is not altogether to Brosnan's taste – "I like something on a smaller scale," he said drily – although he spent three months there filming the comedy-adventure After the Sunset with Salma Hayek and Woody Harrelson. Pierce Brosnan is an easy-going man with a self-deprecating charm and a finely-honed sense of humour who has not forgotten his roots. While on Paradise Island he chatted amiably with fans, posed for their photographs and signed autographs on demand. After the true story Evelyn and the romantic comedy Laws of Attraction, After the Sunset marks a temporary return by Brosnan to the Bond-style action adventure genre. In it, he plays a master jewel thief who retires to Paradise Island with his girlfriend but cannot resist the temptation of one last robbery. During the three months of filming, he, his wife of three years Keely Shaye Smith and their two sons, aged seven and three, lived in the house that for years had been owned by the late Richard Harris, whose brother Dermot had been married to Brosnan's first wife, Cassandra Harris. Family ties mean a lot to the 51-year-old actor, born in Ireland, whose own father left his mother when he was only a year old. Brosnan and co-star Naomi Harris at the World Premiere of After the Sunset When he married Cassandra in 1977 Brosnan adopted her two children, Christopher, now aged 32, and Charlotte, 33, and he and Cassandra had a son, Sean, now aged 21. Chris and Charlotte have both battled drug addiction and depression and have been in and out of rehab, and Chris was recently arrested for allegedly trying to steal mobile phones in a London nightclub. Sean, too, has had his problems, having been suspended from his $7,000-a-term English public school Millfield after reportedly punching and kicking a fellow pupil following an argument between their girlfriends. In April 2000, he was a passenger in a pick-up truck driven by his cousin which careered down a hillside in Malibu and crashed. A worried Brosnan accompanied his son to hospital and stood vigil by his bedside. He delayed his marriage to Keely for more than a year until Sean recovered. He still speaks to his three eldest children every week by telephone and is optimistic that they are now all making new lives for themselves, although he admits it has not been easy, for them or for him. "Oh, God give me strength," he says with a rueful smile. "That's all I can say. I have gone through the teenage years with my eldest children. I have gone through trying times, and their trials and tribulations have been documented. "Now they are in a good place in their lives and seem to be keeping up." Brosnan recently became an American citizen, and he and his wife are both ardent environmentalists. He credits his activism to a journey he took across America when his first wife was dying of cancer. "I travelled across the country looking for a cure and looking for the Holy Grail and in doing so met many men and women who were suffering from cancer," he said. "On my journey I realised it is linked to what we eat and breathe. My wife is a very strong environmentalist and somehow the synchronicity of the two of us coming together has made us more vocal and passionate." Brosnan has worked hard to be where he is and he is a man who believes in counting his blessings. "I'm at a very good time in my life," he says. "I take the kids to school, stop off on the way home, buy a newspaper, have a coffee, figure out the day, go to the office, work on a project then pick the kids up, so my life at home is very simple," he says. "I'm a family man within this crazy, egotistical profession – and it's my sanctuary." 'After the Sunset' opens on Nov 19 in the U.K.
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Post by Viktoria on Nov 5, 2004 11:57:02 GMT -5
Viktoria, I went to your site, but I can't find any photos of the "Sunset" LA Premiere. Debra Ace explained it to you and BTW this is NOT my homepage I would be glad if I could do something like that or what Ace does
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Post by steeleinc on Nov 5, 2004 14:34:41 GMT -5
Sorry-thought it was your site. Still, I went to the site and couldn't find any photos from the LA premiere of "Sunset". What link did you click on the site to get to the LA "Sunset" photos?
Debra
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Post by steeleinc on Nov 5, 2004 14:58:13 GMT -5
Ace, I looked where you said and all I can find on "Sunset" are the official stills- no LA Premiere photos.
Debra
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Post by Viktoria on Nov 5, 2004 17:45:43 GMT -5
The way to find L. A. premiere pics of AtS: first click on gallery button then After the Sunset in the right corner you can find a listing of 5 pages, go to page 4 and 5 and you can watch all the pictures hope that helps?
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Post by sparklingblue on Nov 5, 2004 18:05:12 GMT -5
That whole idea of Pierce making Road style films seems fun. I agree with Barbara on Michael Madsen as a fellow cast member, but I have no idea how funny MM is. I haven't seen him in that much. PB surely can be very funny. I wouldn't mind PB playing the flute, I'd actually be very interested to hear him play, but as has been said before, maybe his musicality is not developed enough for that type of film. (I can tell, I absolutely love music, but don't ask me to sing or play, heaven forbid dance! ) My apologies if I underestimate him!
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Post by Ace on Nov 6, 2004 11:48:48 GMT -5
I shall ring him up and very sultrily ask him what's in his repertoire.... While you're at it you can ask if he does duets. Colin had also sent a video tribute for Pierce' award. He'd stated Colin would be good if they wanted to go younger and Radcliff would be good if they wanted to go younger than that. This was after he joked that he didn't want anyone else to be Bond that they should just end it. So off course various headlines read. Colin Farrell is Pierce's Ideal Bond! Radcliff Daniel Radcliff! Bitter Pierce wants Bond to die! *snort* He was on one of the entertainment shows last night at the L.A. ATS premiere and a reporter asked him about Colin and he laughed and said well when one is in Ireland and has a pint of Guinness.... ;D But the reporter then pushed asking if he didn't think Colin would be good, and what was he to say but of course he would be. I wonder if any reporter realizes it might be a tad rude to ask someone publically discarded from the role he still wanted who he'd like to have it next? I know silly question. A very stretched wink. Ace
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Post by curious george on Nov 6, 2004 17:04:08 GMT -5
Darn, I got here way too late to jump back into the Road discussion! Slow down, y'all! I agree with whoever said way back there somewhere that it helped to know Hope and Crosby to start with, and of course it did. Not a Rat Pack fan myself (big surprise, Ace, eh?). There are even a couple of movies Bob and Bing made separately in which they make snide comments about each other, usually to the camera. imho, Morocco was the best, but I have a hard time picturing PB on a camel with anybody. LOL :: tries to picture a Laura/Remington/Murphy film with RS always getting the 'girl' :: Wouldn't be hard to figure out who ended up with the female lead no matter who partnered with PB as the other male lead. ;D cg
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Post by Barbara on Nov 8, 2004 15:59:55 GMT -5
This is from the Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Take Away, last Saturday. It's a UK program, and the duo have two kids (Little Ant and Little Dec) do interviews for them. This week was Pierce.
This comes from one of the yahoo groups devoted to Pierce.
************************************************ It starts with them going along hotel corridor looking for PB's room as if they are spies. They find him asleep in a chair and wake him up saying 'You have to come with us now Mr Brosnan. You're late' He's taken into another room that's set up with cameras etc and ATS posters and sits opposite them. Btw he's wearing the same outfit as on Jonathan Ross's show.
PB: 'Bring it on'
Q: 'After The Sunset was filmed in the Caribean. It's hot there isn't it?'
PB: 'It is Dec, it's very hot'
Q: 'Did you get very sweaty?'
PB: 'I got sweaty yeah. I get sweaty sometimes with Salma and stuff like that you know coz we'd be kissing and cuddling and it would be hot.' (laughter - obviously something cut out here)
Q: 'You were also James Bond. Was it good or a little bit tiring?'
PB: 'It was good and it was also tiring'
Q: 'Can you teach us some James Bond lines?'
PB: 'Well the obvious one is, you know, The name's Bond, James Bond. Try it'
L Dec: (in a Sean Connery accent) 'The name's Bond, James Bond'
PB: (in a Sean Connery accent) 'That sounds very much like Sean Connery. Yes, excellent, splendid'
L Dec: 'You have a scar on your lip from a stuntman hitting you. Can I have a look?'
PB: (pointing to it) 'Well it's there, right there' (as LDec goes up close to look) 'See it?'
LD: 'Yep. Does it hurt?' (poking his finger in Pierce's scar, surprising Pierce)
PB: 'God! No, no it's all healed.'
LD: 'Did it hurt when it happened?' PB: 'No coz it happened so fast and it was a clean cut' LD: 'Did you cry?' PB: 'Nope, no I didn't' (laughing)
LD: 'Is it true you're a vegetarian?'
PB: 'Mmm (biting bottom lip) Well I don't eat red meat. (Barbara says BS!) I mainly eat fish and sometimes chicken'
LD: 'Do you get very windy?'
PB: (bursting out laughing) 'Flatulence, you know, windy. From time to time'
LD: 'I get very windy'
PB: 'You get windy do you?'
LD: 'Especially when I've been eating eggs'
PB: 'The eggs'll do it'
L Ant: 'You're Irish aren't you? But you don't really sound it. Are you very posh?'
PB: 'No'
LD: 'I can speak Irish. Do you want to hear?'
PB: 'Sure'
LD: 'Large' (in a sort of Irish way)
PB: 'That's Irish? Laarge' (in Irish accent) 'Is that Dublin Irish or?'
LA: 'Dublin' and LD agrees.
PB: 'Laarge - very good' in Irish accent
LA: 'Would you like to come and stay with us in Newcastle?'
PB: 'Sure. I'll come up and see you and your Mum and Dad'
LD: 'I think you'd be very comfortable coz I heard my Mum tell my Dad that he'd be on the sofa that night'
PB: (laughs looks like a bit cut out here) 'Sorry Dad. Is he a big fellow your Dad?'
LD: 'He is'
PB: 'Yeah' (wiping brow)
LA: 'You're supposed to be a spy but now everyone knows what you look like. So we've brought you some disguises to help'
PB: 'You're kidding me. Really?'
LA & D: 'Yep'
PB: 'Hope they're good disguises. Do I get to keep them?'
LD: 'Yep'
PB: 'Do I have to put these on?' (as he's given a bag of stuff.)
LD: 'Yep'
PB: 'OK. Hang on a sec. So I don't get to see 'em? You're not going to make me look sillly now are you?'
LA & D: 'No'
PB: 'No don't. I wanna look cool'
(Next shot is Pierce in Groucho Marx wig, glasses, eyebrows, large nose, 'tache and with cigar in mouth.) PB: 'Yeah. Right this is really clever. You've put a lot of thought into this lads.' (as he takes cigar out and puts in some goofy teeth)
LA & D: ' Thank you very much, we're off. Bye now' as they turn and start going out of the room
PB: 'OK boys, goodbye. I don't look silly now do I?'
LA & D: 'Yeah!'
Pierce looks at camera and give a sorta Groucho Marx twitch and grin.
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Post by Yuliya on Nov 9, 2004 14:11:23 GMT -5
While you're at it you can ask if he does duets. Hope if he plays it won't really matter how you sing? BTW, the post above was transcribed by Chayna; she's registered on this board, too, but never has the time to stop by. She doesn't mind her stuff being re-posted, though; I asked once, but I'm sure she'd appreciate the credit.
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Post by sparklingblue on Nov 9, 2004 16:15:43 GMT -5
"Shplendid" interview! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Marry me, Pierce!! ;D (Well, I guess that was BS, too. LOL)
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Post by Barbara on Nov 9, 2004 20:28:23 GMT -5
I had no idea Chayna belonged here! Chayna, thanks for the great job, and thanks to Yuliya for pointing that out.
TTFN!
-- Barbara
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Post by Yuliya on Nov 10, 2004 9:53:24 GMT -5
Chayna, yeah, kind of. She's probably busy or maybe doesn't remember about this board - she's made a total of two posts, but she's registered.
Here's another interview she transcribed (I don't know how it slipped through cracks, Ace, if it's been posted already, feel free to delete the post.)
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Shown 5th November 2004, but pre-recorded on 2nd November 2004
JR's show band (4 men) are called 4 Puffs and a Piano and wear matching t-shirts each week with a photo or cartoon etc on related to either a guest or big event of the week. They were wearing black t-shirts with Pierce's photo on this week. JR introduces his guests at the start of the prog (they're shown sat in the Green Room, which is really another set) and there are shots of them at any time during the show.
JR 'My next guest - he's suave, he's sophisticated. It's only Pierce Brosnan ladies and gentlemen.' PB 'Thank you, thank you.' JR 'Gorgeous, penetrating eyes, unflappable, suave sophistication.' PB in warning jokey voice as he glances to camera and back to JR - 'Stop it mate, stop it!' JR 'Movie star good looks. Don't be intimidated Pierce. I'm sure you'll look good next to me out here, don't worry.' PB 'I will.' JR goes onto next guest (Norman, Fat Boy Slim) then says 'What a Green Room that is. It's the perfect Bonfire Night Party. We've got Fat Boy Slim on the beat, Pierce the elegant host, we have feisty Gwen (Stefani) who'll provide the fireworks. Now all we need for the bonfire is a strangely shaped, overstuffed guy (shows Peter Kay comedian) and we are set for the evening.'
JR then went into a story about taking the family to visit Monkey World (place who care for rescue monkeys) and puts on fur monkey face hat that fastens under his chin. 'Tell you what, this wouldn't make a bad Bond villain, would it?' getting toy monkey from under desk and stroking it a la Blofeld 'Oh Mr Bond' (shot of Pierce and Fat Boy Slim laughing) 'I see you're scared of monkeys Mr Bond'
*****
Peter Kay (comedian from Bolton, Lancashire) comes on and during his section gives JR a Parkin loaf (a Lancashire speciality with ginger in) coz it's Bonfire Night, saying it's fresh today. JR isn't convinced about eating it, but takes a bite and PK says 'It's Bonfire Night, get in the mood. Never mind it's Monday and this is a pre-record coz of bloody Pierce (quick shot of Pierce laughing). Later in PK's chat he says that the Green Room is a bad idea as 'you can't relax [plus a bit more]. Pierce is alright'. Shows Green Room and Pierce says 'It's like sitting on Death Row - that's what Norman said earlier' and he and Norman have friendly argument - can't hear what's said. Whenever they showed Pierce in the Green Room he was laughing and looked like he was enjoying himself, during the whole show really.
*****
JR 'Let's get our final guest out ladies and gentlemen. He is, I think, one of the finest actors that we have produced from the United Kingdom. He is, of course, one of the greatest living Irishmen. It is Mr. Pierce Brosnan'
Shows Pierce leaving Green Room (dressed in black open-necked shirt hanging outside of blue jeans) then 4 Puffs & a Piano singing an upbeat version of Danny Boy. Pierce blows a kiss to the audience as he comes on.
PB 'That's a long wait back there, I gotta say.' JR 'Well Peter gets excited and I was chatting to Gwen (as Pierce lets out a sigh - not upset or anything though) but you're here now. PB 'We're here indeed Jonathan, yeah.' JR 'How are you feeling? You're looking almost annoyingly good.' PB 'Thank you mate. Well you're looking pretty sharp yourself.' JR 'God Bless You Pierce. I appreciate that. But you're one of these guys even when you turn up, you're not particularly smartly dressed this evening; jeans and a casual shirt, some sort of shoe, and yet' PB 'Actually 2 shoes really' JR 'It's movie star glamour, though, you exude.' PB 'It's casual, casual movie star elegance you know' JR 'Smart casual' PB 'I guess so (shrugs) I don't know what it is, I just err …' JR 'Before we get onto the big news in your career about what's happening with Bond and so on' PB 'Yeah' JR 'I saw Pierce's new movie last week, enjoyed it very much indeed. It's great fun. It's a caper movie I guess, isn't it?' PB 'Yeah, it's a heist, caper movie, love story. Selma Hayek, Woody Harrelson, Don Cheadle and myself and it's called After The Sunset.' JR 'Fun to make no doubt' PB 'Fun to make yeah, went off to the Bahamas, it was brilliant' JR 'Is that a fact that when you get a script now you say "Where are we gonna be filming?" I read years ago that Michael Caine used to look through the script and he'd check the locations first before he even read it and if it was somewhere he didn't wanna go, he wasn't interested.' PB 'It certainly factors into the lifestyle a bit because I've got a wife and children and you have to pack your bags and go off and it's sometimes hard to be away from the family. But this gig was great because the wife and the children came and I could swim to work. The location was right beside the house that we rented, so it was very good.' JR 'I think we're all going off you a bit now (laughter) ' PB 'Why?' JR 'coz that sounds like the best job in the world' PB 'It was a very good gig you know' JR 'And then when you actually swim to work, you get there, you spend most of your time lying in a jaccuzzi with Salma Hayek wearing a bikini.' PB nodding 'Precisely' JR 'You f***er! (bleeped and shows Pierce laughing) Unbelievable. You sit there smug as you like eh?' JR 'Well f***ing hell (bleeped) you could have (?? couldn't tell this word or two)' JR 'I'm trying to deal with Peter Kay and you're getting close with Salma Hayek. Let's have a look. I really enjoyed the movie ' PB 'Thank you' JR 'It's great fun. This is After The Sunset, Pierce's new movie.' Trailer shown JR 'After The Sunset out on 19th November' PB 'Yeah' JR 'You have acted opposite some of the most beautiful women in recent years, the ladies' PB 'I have had a lucky draw there with the ladies, I must say' JR 'Famke Janssen' PB 'Yes' JR 'Halle Berry' PB 'Ah ha' JR 'All good lookers' PB 'Yeah' JR 'That one in The Thomas Crown Affair, lovely, lovely ladies. PB 'Yes good. What was her name though? Come on, you know what it is.' JR 'Lovely lady in The Thomas Crown Affair' PB in a London accent a la Johnny Todd 'Come on now, put it together now. Come on, breathe deeply and just say her bloody name.' JR 'Rene Russo' (said properly) PB chuckling 'Well done, there you go' JR 'You see, don't do that to me. Don't come on and make me feel bad about my speech impediment.' (For those of you who don't know, JR has trouble with his Rs, pronouncing them W and this was all in good humour as JR makes fun of himself about it all the time.) PB chuckling 'I would never dream of it. I would never dream of it' JR 'If I had one leg shorter than the other, you wouldn't make me dance round in a circle? Or would you?' PB 'No, but you know Wene Wusso is lovely' JR 'Well I try my best' PB 'Yeah' JR 'OK have a look at this'
Clip of TCA from TC tripping thief in art gallery and then stealing Monet.
<To be continued...>
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Post by Yuliya on Nov 10, 2004 10:07:04 GMT -5
<part 2>
JR 'Mr Pierce Brosnan. That was a great film. I loved The Thomas Crown Affair.' PB 'Well so did I. It was luck really. I mean, kinda, it was big shoes to fill going into Steve McQueen's, but we managed to pull it off. We had a good script and my little company Irish DreamTime made it and we're having a crack at number 2' JR 'So you're gonna make a sequel to it?' PB 'We're gonna try, yeah. We signed a writer last week' JR 'Fantastic' PB 'and we'll see where we go with it' JR 'Can I be in it?' PB 'No' JR 'Pierce, I got a great idea for you. OK how about he's stealing some jewels. Mr and Chris Ewbunk come along' PB 'Ewbunk?' JR 'Me and Chris Ewbank (ex boxer) play a gay couple who happen to be jewel experts. We've got matching "his and hers" - "his and his" monocles.' PB 'Sounds like a winner to me Jonathan, really' JR in Chris Ewbank voice 'Pierce do you want to see my jewels?' Pierce is laughing JR 'I can do all the voices' PB 'You're good mate, you're good' JR 'Come on, give me a little part' PB 'You can be in it' JR 'Yeah? Can I be in it?' PB 'Yes, I promise you can be in it. It's a deal' and they shake hands on it. JR 'How about that!' PB 'As long as I get the girl' JR 'Let's talk about the ladies a bit if we can, coz Halle Berry, OK, beautiful, beautiful woman.' PB 'Yeah' JR 'Salma Hayek, a beautiful woman. In all these films you have entanglements with them. You have scenes which are to do with adult intimacy OK?' PB cautiously with a query in his voice 'Ah ha?' JR 'You do them very, very well. I'll be honest with you. I think you do them a bit too well' PB 'You think so?' JR 'Well because normally you see a sex scene in a movie and you kinda think "Well it's actors banging up against each other" and you get the feeling. I sometimes see' PB 'But I'm only as good as the partner I'm opposite really, you know, so' JR 'But you seem to be really into it, if you don't mind me saying' PB 'Well it was very nice to be and easy to be into it with Miss Salma Hayek, or Halle' JR 'I've know you for some time. You use your tongue when kissing the ladies' PB 'No. I don't use tongue (more serious and reaching for a bottle of water) JR emphatically 'Yes you do!' PB 'I do not use tongue' JR 'I've seen it go in' PB firmly 'No you have not. You can use slowmo and you'll never see tongue' JR said at the same time as Pierce's last bit 'I was once watching it' JR 'Are you sure no tongue?' smiling PB relaxing again 'Well, maybe a little kind of, you know' as he takes a drink of water and there's audience laughter. JR 'Yeah you! I saw tongue going up. Well surely that's a liberty to take with an actress, isn't it, to slip in the tongue?' PB 'I usually leave that kind of door open to the lady, you know' JR 'You!' PB 'And if it's, you know, working, well then you have to do it.' JR 'Do they give you tongue?' PB 'There's been a few of them that have done' JR 'Who could resist. I'd give you tongue! I'm as straight as they come' PB pointing finger at JR 'Don't you go there!' then chuckling. JR 'Shall we have a gay kiss?' PB laughing 'Get out of here, get outa here!' JR 'That'd be a first for everyone' PB 'Oh god!' grinning JR 'Hold on, I'm feeling a bit (gulps) Now I've overstepped the mark. But when you're doing it, do you block in what you're gonna do? Do you have to OK it with a partner if you' PB 'Well yes' JR 'or do you let the mood kinda ' PB 'Well no, they're usually kinda technical, coz if you're doing a Bond movie they can't show nipple or anything like that, so it's pretty boring.' JR 'Lady's nipple' PB 'Ladies' nipples, yeah' JR 'They show yours' PB 'Yeah sure' JR 'Well Scaramanga had 3' PB laughing JR 'Alright, we've stumbled into Bond here. I am really, I am actually properly gutted that you're not making another Bond movie' PB 'Well I was when the news came down the pike. Because I was set up to do a 5th. I'd done 4 and they'd done really well. They invited me back basically, the producers, and I said Yeah … and then they kinda changed their mind in the middle of negotiations.' JR 'Why was that? Do you know why?' PB 'I really don't know. It's very hard to find the truth in that town or this town when business goes down like that' JR 'Coz as far as I know they haven't got anyone else lined up' PB 'As far as I know they haven't' JR 'And I'll be honest with you. I'm not just saying this coz you're here, but they're hard shoes to fill now. Coz you really - there was a part which I think had gone a bit astray and you came back and you became Bond for a whole new generation. But even older fans like myself, who love Sean Connery, I like Roger Moore, I like Timothy Dalton, I like George Lazenby, you know I thought you were a fabulous Bond. Almost very much a definitive Bond, I really do' (audience claps and cheers in agreement). PB 'Thank you, thank you very much. Listen I tried to do the best I could. I was a big fan of the movies. I mean the first movie that I saw, 64, young lad, 11 years of age, Putney High Street, was Goldfinger. I didn't want to be James Bond but I fell in love with the movies because of that and time went on and I became an actor and it came into my life in 86 and went out of my life in 86 when I was doing Remington. Came back in again, so it's always come with a certain drama doing this role. JR 'Yeah that must have been terrible when you're offered it the first time and then it was sort of snatched away from you. I mean that must have, I would have thought, been quite crushing, wasn't it?' PB 'It was a bit of a pisser I must say. It really was because I was living in America and I'd been there for 5 years and they offered the job and my late wife and I planned to come back to England. We put the children into boarding school here and at the last moment, the 11th hour, they just wouldn't let me out of the contract. JR 'That is awful' PB 'Yeah' JR 'And then you were made to go back to Remington Steele and they only did like 6 more or 7 more didn't they?' PB 'Yeah, they picked it up for 6. It was gonna be 22, but they did 6 and cancelled the show' JR 'What a nightmare' PB 'So, it's just business you know, it's business in that camp.' JR 'But you seem to have a very even handed way of dealing with these things that get thrown at you. I mean most people losing a part like Bond would be, I would have thought, furious. PB 'But I mean if you get uptight and you get pissed off and really bitter and angry about it, then it just does your head in and goes nowhere, so you gotta let that go' JR 'In many ways, maybe it's a good thing for you, because I know you'd like to do more, and I'd like to see you in more, but you're leaving before people want you to go. You're leaving us wanting more and that's a pretty good thing to do' PB 'It's pretty smart. I gotta say that when they told me, when Michael and Barbara gave the decision, …erm …, I was angry and the conversation was pretty short and sweet. I said "OK, thank you very much. Goodbye". I think they were pretty cut up about it themselves. I'm not sure - there was some political situation going on between them and the studio, you never know. And then I felt this great sense of liberation from it. I thought "This is great, I'm a free agent", so to speak, to go off. I've done it, they did well, didn't embarrass myself, I don't think. JR 'When you're making movies, making Bond films, obviously you're aware that all films are smokes and mirrors, it's artifice. But does it loose the magic, something like that, which is so much a part of growing up for both of us, so many people?' PB 'No, I love it. I just love it and I still have a passion about the work that I do and a passion about being an actor, and the great joy is never knowing where it's going really. That's part of the adventure.
<To be continued once again...>
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Post by Yuliya on Nov 10, 2004 10:07:22 GMT -5
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JR 'You've got quite a few children. Some are grown up and then you've got 2 very young ones haven't you?' PB 'Yeah, I've got a little boy who's 3 and a boy who's 7' JR 'I've seen photographs of them and they're lovely little children' PB 'Dylan and Paris' which JR and then PB repeat. JR 'Were they aware of what James Bond was and who he was and who you were playing? Were they excited about that?' PB 'Dylan actually got a big dose of it on the last film because he came down to see me on the set one day. It was at the beginning of the Korean sequence when James Bond is incarcerated; and there's all these cars, all these Porches and Lamborghinis and he loves the cars, just absolutely adores them and I was so thrilled that the lad was there. It was a huge sequence, 12 cameras, 700 extras, Koreans all dressed there, tanks, guns and (zig-zagging with his hand to show this) I had to do this run, this kind of long run and make sure that I didn't step on any of the squibs and the bullets and everything like that. I'm thinking "this is brilliant, there's my boy, Dad's James Bond". All the tension's up, everyone's ready and "Action" and I make a run for it and I'm running (doing actions with arms) and I'm doing my best James Bond impersonation and I get on the thing and I punch the guy out. It's brilliant and I'm winded (acting out of breath) and I go back. I said "What do you think of that? Do you like that?" and he said "Are the cars all right Daddy? Are the cars all right?" (laughter from JR and audience) I said "I think the cars are all right" I said "But did you see me, did you see me do my thing?" and he said "Can we go see the cars?" so I said "OK we'll go see the cars" Tender lads.' JR ' Aaah they're so sweet. But you know we do, we love the action but kids do love the cars of James Bond. I was driving through town a little while ago with my family and we went past the Aston Martin showroom and I love em, Aston Martins are beautiful cars and they're hugely expensive cars, I'm sure that everyone is aware. I was telling my little boy "That's where James Bond gets his cars from but they're very expensive" and my wife says "Yes they're too expensive" coz obviously I'm dropping hints. "Yes they're too expensive. You shouldn't ever spend that kind of money on a car children. You could buy a house for that." And my little boy says "Or an elephant." PB 'Yeah or both really!' JR 'So we began to speculate as to whether Bond could have used an elephant. We thought that was maybe a good idea' PB 'Well when I read it in the script, I asked for one and I got one and I was shameless about it' JR 'I can't wait to see Matador. Have you finished it or is it?' PB 'No we've finished it, it's in the can and it's gonna go to the Sundance Film Festival. It's on the opening night there' JR 'This is a darker sort of comedy, you say' PB 'It's a dark comedy about this hitman Julian, who comes from South London by way of the world and he's having a nervous breakdown in Mexico City and he meets Greg Kinnear, who's a businessman and therein hangs the tale. It's Greg Kinnear, Hope Davis, myself' JR 'And that's you in it wearing a moustache' (pic of PB from The Matador shown) PB 'Yeah that's it' JR 'Now not many men can get away with a moustache, I think and yet you pull it off' PB 'Oh thank you very much, thank you.' JR 'You see, even younger there, although you do look like a gay pin up, it has to be said' (shows pic of younger PB with 'tache) Pierce laughs JR 'Pierce, I'm a big fan of your acting, loved you in the Bond movies, but every time I've met you, I've always been struck by what a thoroughly decent and likeable bloke you are. Thank you so much for coming on the show' PB 'Well likewise mate, likewise. Cheers' JR 'Mr Pierce Brosnan, ladies and gentlemen.' PB 'Thank you very much' JR 'Thank you Pierce. Stick around for the music' PB 'Sure, definitely'
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Post by Ace on Nov 10, 2004 10:54:43 GMT -5
An Interview with Pierce & Salma www.latinoreview.com/films_2004/newline/afterthesunset/interviews.htmlExcerpt on upcoming projects: Both of you have been on both sides of the camera. Do you see yourselves working more on the filmmaking side than acting? Pierce Brosnan: I certainly do. I’ve been in this business since I was 18. I’m at a point in my life where I’m transitioning away from a character that is hugely identified with me. So what do you do? How do you find pieces that will challenge you? How do you mix and match? Do something like After the Sunset, do a character piece like The Matador or the Evelyn’s of the world. It’s about keeping up the choices. Luckily, I still have the passion and desire. I don’t know about directing. I love finding the text, brining the company of people together, and creating a world for them to have a good time. Salma Hayek: I’m enjoying acting right now, but I might get bored of it and not want to do it again. Can you both talk about your upcoming films, The Matador and Bandidas? Salma Hayek: I can talk about The Matador, he showed me pieces of it. It’s really good and you’ve never seen him like this. Pierce Brosnan: We are going to go to the Sundance festival with it. It’s just been picked up. It plays opening night and I’m very proud of that. I always wanted to be in a film at Sundance and had that laurel leaf on the bottom. This young director, Richard Shepard, sent us the script as a writing sample for Thomas Crown 2. It was so good, we said let’s make it. We went to Mexico City, Greg Kinnear and myself… Salma Hayek: You will be shocked. Pierce Brosnan: It’s a character piece.
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Post by Barbara on Nov 10, 2004 14:10:29 GMT -5
Yuliya, thanks for for that awesome interview! It looks like Pierce had fun.
And thanks Ace for the Latino Review.
-- Barbara
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