The May 2019 issue of Sharp, featuring Pierce Brosnan is out and we can’t keep calm. If you don’t know, he’s number one on the list of hot Irish actors and seeing his latest picture we can’t stop drivelling.
Pierce Brosnan is irrefutably the vigorous Irish stock: brought up in a country town outside Dublin later went to the United States in his twenties, where he grabbed the star-making titular role in NBC’s detective TV show Remington Steele. Now, following an opulent and diverse movie career that includes a notable turn as James Bond (in a four-film run from 1995’s Goldeneye to 2002’s Die Another Day), a discredited British P.M. (in The Ghost Writer), and a singing architect (in the Mamma Mia! diptych of ABBA-inspired movie musicals).
Brosnan has settled back in on the small screen for the first time in 30 years. He has taken on a sequence of unique roles throughout his career, but his latest TV show has him confronting a whole different genus. The Son, which begins its second and final season next week, is based on the 2013 novel by Philipp Meyer. Brosnan plays Eli McCullough, a Texas cattle baron interested in the oil industry.
It’s exclusively an Irish character that surely serves Brosnan on The Son, where he plays a barbed character given to moods that range between the forlorn and the out-and-out mad. ‘There’s an abundance of relish!’ Brosnan beams. ‘You have a quiver full of many emotions to play — to let loose an unexpected surprise within a scene or an episode.’
The Son returns April 27 at 9 PM, ET on AMC.
