Jeremy Irons He is one of the best British actors who turned seventy-five this September 19. Protagonist of important films: The mission, The House of Spirits, The man in the iron mask…Successes on the big screen, although it was a television series, Return to Brideshead, which elevated him to the gallery of popular performers, as it was spread in many countries. He is an actor as versatile as he is complex. He has had a surprising love life since he contracted a second marriage and publicly admitted that, even being happy with his wife, they both agreed to cheat on each other, if necessary, which according to him guaranteed them long-term stability. It could have been a joke, but they will soon find out that they carried out this accepted infidelity.
Jeremy Irons, born on the Isle of Wight, known for its massive music festival. His father was an accountant. He began his artistic career by performing Shakespearean comedies. But he also approached musicals. His theatrical training began with his courses at the Bristol Old Vic Theater School. He paid for his classes by selling antiques. He had a good voice, and practiced several instruments, drums and harmonica in a youth band, which walked the streets of Bristol. In those beginnings, he participated in a montage of Godspell, in the role of Saint John the Baptist. As the years went by, enhancing his baritone faculties, he took part in a special gala at the Royal Albert Hall in London performing some songs from My Fair Lady, much celebrated by the spectators.
In 1980 he starred Nijisky, filmed biography of the legendary dancer. It was the following year when he achieved a magnificent performance alongside Meryl Streep, in The French lieutenant’s wife. He got another one with Glenn Close in The Von Bulow mystery. He won an Oscar, a Tony Award, an Emmy, a Golden Globe… The face of Jeremy Irons, his gaze, impact the viewer. He takes physical advantage of it and knows how to adapt to the idiosyncrasies of each character, whether disturbing, doubtful, aggressive, skeptical, or introverted, depending on the script he agrees to represent.
As fortunately he has never lacked work, he allowed himself to reject some film offers. One of them, that of the main role of The silence of the lambs, which ended up in the hands of the brilliant Anthony Hopkins, that chilling Hannibal Lécter who was scary for his confessed cannibalism. Likewise, he did not accept to film three films in the James Bond series, with which he was tempted after Sean Connery’s resignation to continue being agent 007. He did decide to participate in the casts of Batman and Superman and with his magnificent vocalization he lent his voice to the character of Scar in The Lion King.
There will be others much more handsome than him, but we must not deny him his undisputed media pull for the female sex. What a journalist took to mean like this: “he is the attractive man that intelligent women like.” That’s what they gave him in the 90s. He always was a cult. And realistic, sincere: “I don’t live to act, I act to live.”
With actress Helen Mirren and Prince William | Archive
Jeremy Irons knows our language somewhat; it is not in vain that he spent some time in Buenos Aires when he was twenty-one years old. About that stay he said something that we don’t know if he meant seriously: “I fell in love with a puppeteer.” Did he then imply that he was bisexual? We doubt this as we have no more information than his own statement, also adding that he was on the verge of dying “when the elevator I took fell from the seventh floor.” He gives us the impression, weighing some of his statements, that he usually plays with skepticism, double language, hidden humor, always confusion.
Regarding his love life, it is known that he married for the first time in 1969 with Julie Hallam, a marriage that lasted as long as a cake at the door of a school: a few months. He remarried in 1978 with the Irish woman Sinead Cusack, daughter of actor Cyril Cusack. They stay together. Parents of two sons, Max, born in 1978, actor, and Samuel, born in 1985, photographer. The uniqueness of this marriage, we already stated at the beginning of our article, considered by Jeremy Irons as “open to all types of relationships.” In a word: each of the two can look for another partner, without this meaning that they are going to divorce, which they do not contemplate. And they have proven it. He, hooking up in 2004 with Lynn Collins, his partner in the cast of a new film version of The merchant of Venice. Meanwhile, his wife did not cut corners by having extramarital relations with BBC journalist Jeremy Paxman. That is to say, she defends such behavior because she always maintains her marriage with new hopes. That is, changing when they feel like a partner. The British actor has always confessed to be Catholic, which still clashes with those aforementioned practices.
He has come to Spain a few times. In 1997 to receive the Donostia award. In 2010 he was the involuntary protagonist of an event that was between grotesque and dramatic. He had met the Catalan actress Loles Leon. Always so determined, she let Jeremy understand that she wouldn’t mind having a “vis-a-vis” with him. The meeting in the suite occupied by the actor at the privileged Santo Mauro hotel was going to take place discreetly. Jeremy would wait for her in the room. Loles, she looked splendid, with such high heels, the so-called “stilettos”, that when she was heading down a staircase to meet her “ligue” she tripped, brutally falling to the ground. Her night of love with Jeremy Irons could not be consummated. Quickly treated, she was diagnosed with a broken pelvis and a broken wrist. She was in a cast for several months until she was discharged. She lost several contracts. She filed a complaint with those responsible for the hotel. She was compensated with 45,000 euros. She could have commented that “there is no evil that does not come for good.” But she missed out on her alleged affair with Jeremy Irons. “It will be another day,” he seems to have told him when he found out about Loles’ misfortune.
2023-09-23 14:16:44
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