PIERCE BROSNAN: JAMES BOND AND SOMETHING ELSE
AMY DAWES, Los Angeles Daily News, For Diario Clarín, April 1 1997.
Anyone could think that the devastating success at world level, like it was GoldenEye, would make an actor to sit down to rest.This is not what Pierce Brosnan did, who decided that his future opportunities are not limited to play James Bond, obliging himself to accept roles for a range of movies: "Dante's Peak", where he interprets the active role of an expert in volcanos - and " The Mirror Has Two Faces", in which he is the object of the teacher's desire that Barbra Streisand encourages.
And there is more.
In "Mars Attacks!", Brosnan is the scientific adviser of the White House and in the next Robinson Crusoe, is the adventurer of the Daniel Defoe's XIX century island.
Next month he will return to the James Bond role when he films the continuation and still without title movie of GoldenEye.
He is 44 years old and has just had a new son with journalist Keely Shaye Smith. Brosnan, of blue eyes and Irish origin, became famous in the United States with its television series of 1982-87 "Remington Steele" but he admits that the success attendant that obtained with GoldenEye allowed him to elevate his profile.
One of these results are movies like Dante's Peak, in which is hoped his presence helps to sell more entrances than "Volcano", of the Universal Studios, in which Tommy Lee Jones works.
His role demands him as much as the rest of the actors to create the illusion of being threatened by a volcano that was not there in fact.
"I have just watched the movie and I believed myself the whole illusion. I got lost in it, in fact. I believed firmly that the volcano was there and that it was making eruption. It left me speechless".
The movie was filmed in sound studios of Los Angeles, partly, and in different places of the mountainous town of Wallace, in the state of Idaho. "We really surround the town, during the whole summer", he reveals. "And we finished covering of ashes the whole place".
"I love this type of movies. I always liked them. I remember the emotion and pleasure that I felt when seeing "The Towering Inferno" or "The Adventure of Poseidon"...
His old dream, however, is to return to Ireland like a movie producer. "I always wanted to support the young film directors, in a way of returning something to the business. Yesterday I still found myself fighting to get a part to act and to make ends meet. I don't forget that time", he admits.
His new company, Irish Dream Time, has its headquarters in the United Artists studios, that is the one that holds the franchise of Bond. United Artists's money allowed that the firm lifted flight but Brosnan and its partner joined in Ireland 5 million dollars to finance its first movie The Nephew, in which Brosnan interprets a barman whose daughter is involved with the young man that stars the film.
"It is a kind of serious and calm work about secrets and bitterness. I always wanted to produce my own movies and fortunately Bond has occurred certain cachet that will allow me to make it", he concludes.