Jeremy Irons
Jeremy Irons
Jeremy John Irons is an English actor. After receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969, and has since appeared in many West End theatre productions including The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, Godspell, Richard II and Embers. In 1984, he made his Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing and received a Tony Award for Best Actor...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth19 September 1948
CityCowes, England
I always wanted to do more plays but I never quite understood how you got asked to do a play. I had done house plays, but they were sort of skits.
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At the age of 12 I was going on to another boarding school in another part of the country. We change schools at 13 in this country.
Now the decision to play a role is halfway towards understanding the character, because you empathize with it and that's why you want to play it.
You have to communicate on a much greater scale, ... With a camera, you can use the flick of an eye. On stage, a lot of other things are happening that can pull focus or energy. You're always thinking the same way, but you have to amplify your thoughts with the volume of your speech and the ways you use your whole body to communicate what you're feeling. It's a little bit different from film.
It's a musical I've never seen, but I've loved the music for some time, ... This is a great, wonderful contrast from making movies.
So I continued through my next school, which takes me up to the age of 17, moving from the bottom stream of one year into the bottom stream of the next year, all the way through. I showed other talents which gave me self-respect, which is fine.
My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that.
No, I don't believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you. Let it happen.
I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me.
Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable
Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.