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Friday, March 23, 2012

Jeremy Irons: The Borgias Aim for four seasons (REUTERS)

By Tim Molloy at TheWrap


Thu Jan 12, 2012 3:02pm EST"The Borgias" executive producer James Flynn says he hopes for four seasons of the Showtime papal drama, which is about to enter its second season.

"The overall plan in a series like this is ideally four seasons," he said Thursday. "That would be the plan, that would be the ambition."

Also read: 'Borgias' Gets Return Date

But he said the show could potentially continue after the death of Jeremy Irons' Pope Alexander VI, by focusing on the rule of his successor, Pope Julius II. Flynn spoke at a "Borgias" panel for the Television Critics Association winter press tour, where Irons also spoke about his distinctive voice.

Irons said that when he was 25 or 30 years old, he and John Hurt once met for coffee and bemoaned the new crop of good, young actors. He said Hurt told him his trick for sabotaging the potential competition:


READ MORE:  http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/12/idUS423888805820120112


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