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Âåëüâåò: Âû òîêà ïîñëóøàéòå, ÷òî Ìóðü ãîâîðèò I'm very broody but I'm not ready to be a father. I do love children, though. When I was on the set of Mission: Impossible 3, Will Smith and his wife came down, and he's got a little girl and a little boy. They were so beautiful and it was lovely to see that family unit. It's the same with Tom [Cruise]. He has a great family unit. http://www.celebrity-babies.com/2007/07/jonathan-rhys-m.html
Âåëüâåò: Äæîíàòàí òèïà ïîäòâåðäèë ÷òî áóäåò ó Áðåíäàíà Ãëèñîíà ñíèìàòüñÿ First off - let's get the name right. It's Jonathan Rhys Meyers . That's "reese," and, no, it's not a middle name - it's one long last name - and, yeah, he's been called "Rice Meyers" from time to time. But surely that's happened less as the young Irish actor has steadily made a name for himself, first gaining attention in Todd Haynes ' arty "Velvet Goldmine," then nabbing a Golden Globe for his portrayal of a young Presley in the CBS TV-movie "Elvis." Along the way, he's also appeared in "Bend It Like Beckham," "Match Point" and picked up two Golden Globe nominations for his work in Showtime 's "The Tudors," in which he plays a rather virile Henry VIII who's apparently married to a gym membership and cardio routine as much as all those wives. Now, it's "From Paris With Love," which opened Feb. 5, a buddy-action flick from producer Luc Besson and director Pierre Morel that's as rapid-fire as Edith Piaf 's vibrato. Rhys Meyers plays a naive spy trainee keeping up with bald tough guy John Travolta . He sat down recently with Newsday contributor Joseph V. Amodio at Le Parker Meridien hotel in Manhattan . Is it true you met Travolta for the first time in that first scene where your characters meet? Yeah. I'd seen him in the morning, just to say hello. I hadn't seen him in costume. He went off and got made up. And when I saw him as the character, it was the first time we stood face to face. I hear shooting an action movie is a lot more methodical than it looks. It's meant to look spontaneous and erratic, but to do that is technically very, very difficult. But we had Pierre Morel. Before he was a director, he was a and cameraman for the "Transporter" movies. So you know where he's coming from. Very fast, fearless. He makes compact movies. He doesn't like people sitting around the cinema for two and a half hours. Ninety-five minutes - you're in, you're out. The last season of "The Tudors" airs this spring. Any surprises in store? Is Henry going to learn to play nice with his wives - do the dishes, take out the trash? He takes out the trash, but it tends to be human. No . . . I play an old man. I play him at 50 years old. What was it like to age? To get your facial muscles to move under so many layers of prosthesis is hard. You have to be bigger underneath for the prosthetic to work. You've got to move big to make it look small. There's also "Shelter," where you play a guy with multiple personalities. Shot "Shelter" about a year and a half ago with Julianne Moore , and I haven't signed on to the next thing yet so I can't talk about it. [He smiles.] Is that the film with the weird title - uh . . . "At Swim" . . . ? "At Swim-Two-Birds." That's being directed by Brendan Gleeson , and it just ended up on the Internet that I'm involved - mainly because I'm Irish. "Ohh, Brendan Gleeson's making a film with Liam Neeson, Gabriel Byrne, Colin Farrell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers . . . . " Just name any famous Irish guys when you're at your computer. . . . Some little cyber-dude. Yeah, somewhere in Iowa , probably. Why is it always Iowa ? Or . . . Poughkip . . . ? Uh, Pough . . . Poughkeepsie, isn't that it? Yeah, they get a bad rap. So what's next for you? I ski when I don't shoot. I was extreme skiing in Chamonix [in France] about a week and a half ago. Extreme. Not just bunny slopes or downhill. I want to be an extreme skier. I'm not that good, but extreme skiing is what I've been working toward. Why? Well, because it's just so beautiful up there. That's where the magic happens - up the mountains. What's it like to be up that high? Spiritual? No. It's just - the world looks different from up there. Are you worried at all about breaking your neck? Yeah. It scares me. Skiing scares me. But I like it. I love the environment of it - the air, the geography, and the adrenaline rush, the grace of skiing. And, yeah, it is difficult, no doubt about it - heights do scare me. But why should something that frightens me stop me from doing what I really like? Otherwise, I'd never be in a movie. C'mon, when you're in a movie, the potential for embarrassment is endless. http://mobile.newsday.com/inf/infomo?site=newsday&view=entertainment_item&feed:a=newsday_10min&feed:c=entertainment&feed:i=1.1742095&nopaging=1
Âåëüâåò: Ñâåæåíüêîå èíòåðâüþ As King Henry VIII, Jonathan Rhys Meyers gets a lot of action on The Tudors, but in the actor's latest film, From Paris With Love, he gets to stretch the action muscles he never knew he had -- shooting at terrorists, dodging bullets, and running around with a coke-filled vase. That's because his character, James Reece, who's long dreamed of becoming an undercover agent, finally gets a shot, though he's in way over his head. Rhys Meyers says that Reece only wishes he were James Bond. Q: What was it like shooting in Paris? A: Paris is the most beautiful city in the world, but I wanted to see the Paris that you don't usually get to see. I was staying at the Hôtel de Crillon, which is a beautiful hotel, where Marie Antoinette learned to play the piano, and it's an elegant living museum. But I walk out on the Place de la Concorde, and I see the Paris that everybody dreams of, and I also see the Paris that is the living nightmare that happens in any First World country: tons of people from different cultures trying to make a life. I wasn't the tourist coming in and going to the Champs-Élysées or going to Ladurée and having macaroons. I was going out to these areas where people actually live. It made it a real city to me, not just a Disneyland fantasy. Q: Your scene with John Travolta is in the Charles de Gaulle airport. That was the first time you two met? A: I was shooting The Tudors on a Tuesday. I arrived in Paris on a Wednesday, and that was the first time we faced each other on-screen, when I busted him out of the customs office. I've seen John Travolta in many films, but I haven't seen him like that. My character has dreamed of what it would be like, the undercover life, and he expects a worldly, sophisticated James Bond-type. But what he gets is a biker boy. And he's shocked. And John's character loves that. He enjoys the naïveté that James Reece has; he enjoys seeing him confused. Q: Is that the basis of their chemistry? A: It's a buddy relationship, but it's more of a mentor-student relationship, and there's no better way of training him than by throwing him in at the deep end. But it's all about their energy, and the moments they share, which are better than any explosion. I think it's chemistry that makes a classic action film -- if the characters like each other. Why does Lethal Weapon work? Because it's Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid -- would that have been the same movie with Robert Redford and Warren Beatty? Q: You get to skip out on a chunk of the action because you're carrying the vase of cocaine. A: And I accidentally dropped it, running on those steel stairs! I dropped the vase, and I went, "Oh f-ck, the coke!" I had to go all the way back up and do that scene again. The vase became a teddy bear, a blanket, to me, and I felt sad when I had to drop it for the other scene, because it had been my buddy, protecting me from the whole world, this vase of marching powder. Q: How difficult was it to speak Mandarin in some of those scenes? A: I did a film called The Children of Huang Shi, in which I had to speak Mandarin and Japanese, so I had already sort of been involved in that language. Actually, the girl who plays the prostitute that I walk in on with the German guy, she's the girl who taught me how to speak Chinese. I asked the guy whom I was speaking to if he understood me, and he said yes. So that was okay. But that was level two. If I were level eight at Cambridge, I would have been a disgrace. Q: Your character falls for a woman, but later on he realizes he knows nothing about her. A: It's like, how much do you know about your partner, really? He knows that she makes dresses, but he's a naïve guy. Pierre Morel [the director] and Luc Besson [the writer] know that this guy will go for this girl and he will go for her blindly, because of the beauty, the charm, the elegance, and living in Paris, because that's the dream. And that will all sort of divert him from what's actually happening. I think it's a great ruse. If you want to hide something, hide it in plain sight. Q: So it's about blind faith in more than one way. A: For my character, I'm willing to ignore a lot of things because of love. For her character, she's willing to blow herself up. Whether its love of religion or love for a human being, it's about love, and it's the relationships. Everything that happens in war or terrorism comes down to human choices, human emotions -- whether it's a father who loses a son or a wife who loses a husband. It all comes down to individual stories. http://blogs.amctv.com/movie-news/2010/02/jonathan-rhys-meyers-interview.php
Âåëüâåò: Ñâåæàéøåå èíòåðâüþ ñ Äæîíàòàíîì Contrary to what Medieval Times employees might tell you (before the jousting, and after the appetizers), kings aren’t born, they’re made—and Jonathan Rhys Meyers is no stranger to the coronation, having already been anointed twice. As the King of (Stolen) Rock ’n’ Roll in 2005’s TV movie Elvis and as England’s Henry VIII on Showtime’s hit The Tudors, Meyers learned that rulers grow into power, expectations, and even their own skin. In fact, the 30-year-old Ireland native has done all three since splashing off in the 1996 biopic Michael Collins. Labeled “pretty” as a youth, Meyers spent his teens and much of his twenties portraying weak, physically androgynous, and sexually ambiguous characters that ranged from bisexual rocker to tortured male rape victim to Alexander the Great’s bitchy lover. In 2004, Meyers began bulking up to nab more commanding roles. After stepping into Elvis’s blue suede shoes—and winning a 2006 Golden Globe for it—he lived out your fantasies by catching Scarlett (Johansson) fever in Woody Allen’s Match Point. Then this past January, he manned up his damn self by going into rehab for alcoholism…and then doing it again in April. (Um, isn’t that called being Irish? We kid, we kid. Cheers!) Clear-headed, Meyers is now preparing for the November premieres of The Tudors’ second season and the romantic drama August Rush. Complex got down with the king to talk about sobriety, the difference between celebrity and real royalty, and keeping it in your pants…at least on-set. Complex: August Rush isn’t the first film you’ve sung in. What do you think when you hear yourself sing? Jonathan Rhys Meyers: Oh, it’s dreadful. We don’t even have to continue with the question. I’m absolutely horrified and stunned that I could shame myself so much. I don’t like listening to myself speak. Really? Jonathan Rhys Meyers: At this point in my career I don’t mind watching myself on camera; I’ve come to terms with my flaws. When I first started watching myself on camera I wasn’t happy, and yes, I’m still not happy, but it’s not with how I am physically but more with performance things. But I still don’t like listening to my own voice—it’s never quite convincing. How did having an absent musician father inform your August Rush role—a musician separated from his son at infancy? Jonathan Rhys Meyers: I’m sure, in retrospect, it had some effect because my father wasn’t there, but I don’t think I searched into that to play the character. Did the parallels make it an emotionally taxing role? Jonathan Rhys Meyers: Oh, no, no. It was emotionally taxing because films are. The Tudors got an Emmy nomination for outstanding casting, but none of the cast was recognized. Do you wish you could have the nominations committee beheaded? Jonathan Rhys Meyers: You’ve got to be realistic about awards because if you think you’re so deserving of them, then you’re probably not. Maybe it wasn’t my turn. I haven’t done enough yet; James Gandolfini, Kiefer Sutherland, Denis Leary, and James Spader, these are guys who have put in big time. Is it true Snoop Dogg is a fan of The Tudors? Jonathan Rhys Meyers: I was told that. I’m a fan of his, so that’s really cool. I can just imagine Snoop being into this because it’s about the rise to power, about being a king. Paying the cost to be the boss. [Laughs.] Sharp reference. Do you feel a kinship with Henry VIII? Jonathan Rhys Meyers: Well, we don’t really have much in common. That’s one of the hardest parts of playing Henry VIII. Being born into royalty, you have an energy. You didn’t have to achieve power, it was given by birth. That’s something extraordinary. Unless you know what that’s like, you don’t know what that’s like. Everything that I’ve earned in my life I’ve had to earn because I wasn’t born a king. So to get into the mentality that every good thing that happens to you, every bit of wealth, every palace, every horse that you own, every woman you bed, you deserve, just by your birth, that’s quite an extraordinary thing. http://www.complex.com/CELEBRITIES/Cover-Story/Jonathan-Rhys-Meyers
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