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Sep 19, 2017 · In the midst of a creative crisis, the British actor impulsively purchased Kilcoe Castle, a long-abandoned fortress near the water. David Kamp learns how a magical retreat came to be. The actor...
Dec 14, 2020 · When Irons was young, he had no idea that he would grow up to be an actor. In fact, he didn't really know what he wanted to do.
Sep 30, 2017 · ‘Die Hard’ star Jeremy Irons might seem like the quintessential Englishman but his wife is Irish, his own family has deep roots in County Cork and it is in that same county that he saved a 15th...
- Did You Grow Up in A Family That Was Interested in Art Or Antiques?
- Why chairs?
- Did You Hunt For Furniture When You Were on Tour Or on Location?
- I’m Not Sure How You Have Found Time to Have An Acting career.
- What About Paintings? Did You Collect Those Too?
- You Own A Castle in Ireland, Which You Restored. How Did That Happen?
- Did You Know What You Wanted The Interior of The Castle to Look like?
- How Carefully Did You Plan Each room? Or Did You Just Try Out Different pieces?
Not really. My dad was an accountant and my mum a housewife who raised us, as was often the case in those days. We lived in a house in St. Helens on the Isle of Wight which was, I think, a converted stable. It was just after the war, and unless you lived in a house that had come down to you over generations, people didn’t really think about furnitu...
Chairs touch the most of you. In beds, you often replace the mattress, but chairs wrap around you, and if my theory — which I stand by — that inanimate objects absorb energy is right, the chair is the most likely piece to do so.
Yes, of course. I remember going to Stratford when I was with the Royal Shakespeare Company and living in a lovely house on the River Avon. Next door was a farm and a barn, and the chap who owned it would find furniture and ship it to America. I would keep going in and saying, “No, you’re not sending that.” I bought loads of really useful things th...
Hah! It’s true that I’m always on it. Sinéad would tell you about us going out to dinner in Paris when I saw a skip near the restaurant. I looked in and saw a nice copper bowl — an old laundry bowl that would sit over a fire. I had exactly the place for it in an outhouse in Oxfordshire! I pulled it out, all greasy and dirty — we were nicely dressed...
Yes, and that was fun, because after a while, I was earning well, and I bought some lovely pictures. I tend to be attracted to paintings done between 1880 and 1930, mainly of women. Sometimes, I would meet friends in different cities, and we would go looking for paintings and antiques. I remember being at the Marché aux Puces at the Porte de Cligna...
Sinéad is Irish, and before the castle, we bought a little cottage in Ireland that was supposed to be a lock-up-and-go kind of place. We really rebuilt it, because it was falling apart. And that was great, because I went out into the Irish countryside and found some wonderful old things — settles and fire surrounds — and did the cottage in indigeno...
Originally, I thought I’d repair all the rooms and do the walls, which I wanted to be rough, with all the kinks retained. I had stayed in a ryokanin Japan and loved the way it was so peaceful, with nothing to distract the eye. I thought maybe that’s what I’d do: keep it all glass and modern and empty. But then, I just let it evolve and talk to me a...
A bit of both. Sometimes, I knew exactly where certain things would go, like a life-size wooden horse I found in an antiques shop in Stow-on-the-Wold, in Gloucestershire. It was a lot of money, and we were just starting the castle. So, Brian Hope, who has looked after the Oxfordshire house, and I went for a drink. I said, “If we use the horse as a ...
Jan 22, 2018 · In his 70th year the actor looks back on Olivier and Gielgud, on the Oscars and his start at Bristol Old Vic. In 2016 the Bristol Old Vic turned 250. To blow out the candles, England’s oldest continually running theatre summoned home one of its most splendid alumni. Jeremy Irons – Charles Ryder in Brideshead Revisited, an Oscar winner as ...
Dec 30, 2011 · It made stars of Jeremy Irons, who played the moody, disillusioned painter Charles Ryder, and Anthony Andrews as the outwardly insouciant but desperately dissolute aristocrat Sebastian Flyte.
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Dec 7, 2016 · Jeremy Irons owns a pied-à-terre in London, a house in Oxfordshire and a 15th-century castle in Cork, Ireland, painted a color that complaining neighbors have called pink. “They got their...
