British performer Jeremy Irons didn’t enter acting to become an actor. He joined to become a gypsy, he says. He considered three options: life in the circus, the carnival or the theater. The actor, who has illuminated the screen in films like “Reversal of Fortune,” “The Iron Mask” and “Die Hard: with a Vengeance,” returns Sunday as the evil Rodrigo in Showtime’s “The Borgias.”
By: Luaine Lee, McClatchy Tribune News ServicePASADENA, Calif. —
British performer Jeremy Irons didn’t enter acting to become an actor. He joined to become a gypsy, he says.
“I had this sort of romantic vision of the life I wanted. I always say to kids now, ‘Find out what makes you happy and try to make a life that gives that to you, whatever that may be doing.’ I wanted a job which allowed me to move from society to society, not to be stuck in a conventional rat race,” he says in the courtyard of a hotel here on a chilly winter’s day.
He considered three options: life in the circus, the carnival or the theater. “I went and looked at circuses and carnivals, and I looked the accommodations they gave to the staff, and I thought, ‘I think I’m too middle-class for that. I don’t think I could live in something that small. I think maybe I’ll look at the theater.’
So I went and joined a theater in Canterbury when I was 18.”
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