Jeremy irons interview - 2007 galway film fleadh

Enjoy a great afternoon in the company of one of cinema’s most accomplished actors, Jeremy Irons.

One wonders how Jeremy Irons felt when he read Antony Lane for the New Yorker write: “Irons is right, and ripe, for these areas of moral rot”. On first reading, this may not seem like a compliment. One wonders whether he felt the same reading this. Did he think it was a slur on his character(s)? Well, when one reviews the characters that Jeremy inhabits, they would tend to be on the lower end of the morality scale.

Irons has said that he takes parts that other actors turn down, and this is a telling statement; other movie stars do not want to be remembered for moral dubiousness. But Irons’ filmography demonstrates an actor eager to excavate repressed parts of the human consciousness: the carnal, the forbidden. Such areas might scare movie stars, but Jeremy Irons is first and foremost an actor.

So I would assert that Lane’s observation is really an accolade. In his article he concluded:“Once you’ve got an Oscar for impersonating Claus von Bulow, the prospect of Humbert Humbert must seem like a normal day at the office”.

This afternoon’s interview will be hosted by John Kelly, Presenter of JK Ensemble on Lyric Fm and The View On RTÉ 1.

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