{"id":278198,"date":"2026-01-10T20:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/278198\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T20:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:09:11","slug":"giant-star-pierce-brosnan-its-such-a-capricious-game-to-be-an-actor-you-have-to-be-as-tough-as-old-boots-to-be-in-it-this-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/278198\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Giant\u2019 star Pierce Brosnan: \u2018It\u2019s such a capricious game to be an actor, you have to be as tough as old boots to be in it this long\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Irish star discusses self-belief, his new boxing biopic and why he\u2019s not ready to retire\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pierce Brosnan, Amir El-Masry, \u2018Prince\u2019 Naseem Hamed and young actors Ghaith and Ali Saleh at a gala screening of \u2018Giant\u2019 in London. Photo: WireImage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3744398d-1cbe-40d3-9a5a-6753c8243986.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Pierce Brosnan, Amir El-Masry, \u2018Prince\u2019 Naseem Hamed and young actors Ghaith and Ali Saleh at a gala screening of \u2018Giant\u2019 in London. Photo: WireImage<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Pierce Brosnan has what grandmothers might call a \u201ctwinkle\u201d. Or at least the kind of face that would make \u00adcartoon animals hit themselves with enormous mallets while their eyes bulge out of their heads. And he knows this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Obviously. You don\u2019t play James Bond and get voted the Sexiest Man Alive at the relatively late age of 48 without cottoning on. And you can also tell because when I ask Brosnan about being a famously very good-looking dude, he barely blinks. There\u2019s no faux \u00admodesty. No admonishing. Just a sharp nod of recognition. Water is wet. Climate change is real. Pierce Brosnan \u2013 then, now, and tomorrow \u2013 looks absolutely fantastic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish star discusses self-belief, his new boxing biopic and why he\u2019s not ready to retire Pierce Brosnan, Amir&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-278198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}