A busy Pierce Brosnan is having a blast
After 31 years in front of the camera, Pierce Brosnan feels like a whippersnapper.
"I'm at the point now where it's really just great fun," Brosnan says. "It's like I'm in repertory theater. All these films are, hopefully, completely different. It's like going back to the beginning of a career."
The Irish actor, 56, has four disparate films out within weeks of each other. In the artsy thriller The Ghost Writer, out in New York and Los Angeles on Feb. 19, Brosnan is a slippery former British prime minister who hires Ewan McGregor to write his memoirs.
The film is directed by Roman Polanski, who is under house arrest in Switzerland and is fighting extradition to the United States to face sentencing for having unlawful sex with a minor in 1977. After being arrested in September in Switzerland, where he was to attend a film festival, he edited The Ghost Writer while behind bars.
"There will be people who say he deserves everything he gets," Brosnan says. "I think forgiveness, compassion, some dignity — he hasn't murdered anyone. What he did was terribly wrong in a time that was terribly wrong in many ways. There's forgiveness on her side. You just hope there's closure for his family and her family. He's a brilliant fellow and a very fractured man in many ways."
Fractured aptly describes Brosnan's character, the fictional politico Adam Lang, who is accused of war crimes and being a patsy of the USA.
Lang, Brosnan says, is "quite a tragic character. He's an idiot. He must have known at some point that he was a hollow man, a useless fellow, really."...
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