Pierce Brosnan was our guest this past weekend while doing press for Laws Of Attraction, and he talks about working with Julianne Moore, his mustache, what is an executive producer, and whether or not there’ll be another Bond Film!

Was it your idea to bring the production to Ireland, I heard it was originally supposed to be in Los Angeles, and then go to an island in Barbados?

Pierce: It wasn’t my decision to do that, it came out of the initials meetings we had in the making of this film because of monetary reasons, you can get more bang for your buck if we moved it to Ireland which I thought was just ludicrous, I wanted to make this film in New York, cause I love New York, and we made Thomas Crown in new York , and this was kind of like a book end, but having said that, I’m deeply proud that we went to Ireland, our company is called Irish dreamtime, and I think we may have seemed to have pulled it off, in the marriage of the short time we had to shoot in New York, and the time in Ireland, and London, the story always had the story going off, well originally off to an island so aside from that, I’m proud of this film.

Is it always difficult to make a good romantic comedy?

Pierce: (laughs) yes it is tough, this is a romantic comedy made by adults for adults which they don’t seem to make anymore like in the old days, in the old days they made movies for adult and for the public man and woman that wanted to have romance in their lives, instead now its romance for teenagers which is fine to a point, it is tricky to pull one of these off because the audience going in knows that this man and this woman are going to hook up eventually, but technically, dramatically it has to be presented in a way where there are still elements of drama and comedy and conflict, so there is a resolution at the end. This is the first one I’ve ever attempted and this material found us and we decided to hang our hat on this one.

Is the mustache you have for another project or is it just personal?

Pierce: No, we are going to make another movie next month, called Matador, it’s a black comedy, with Greg Kinnear, Hope Davis and myself, it’s a about a hit man who has a nervous breakdown.

Are you the hit man?

Pierce: I’m the hit man. Greg Kinnear is a business man from the Midwest, and he encounters a lot of bad timing, a lot of bad luck, and he encounters this rather sick person, played by me.

On this picture your one of the executive producers, does any movie need 10 executive producers?

Pierce: No. no. (everyone laughs) there is so much bologna behind this one, but you know, we had to find the money for this one along the way, and these people decided they wanted to hang their hats on it, this movie was produced by Beau St. Clair, Julie Dark, David Friendly, and Marc Turtletaub, they were the people that were on the set each day, myself included, ugh, Peter Howitt, that is the nucleus of the movie, the others came along for the ride! Everyone wants to be a producer and everyone wants to have a say in things.

What was it like working opposite Julianne Moore?

Pierce: It was wonderful, she is Americas finest actress at the moment, and a most beautiful lady and someone that has her head squared on her shoulders, beautifully on her shoulders, that’s a better way of putting it, and I admired her work, I wanted to make a movie about a man and a woman, a beautiful woman, and she has a grace and independence that I wanted her to have in this role.

Did you know her before you did this project?

Pierce: No we met briefly at some party at Ellis Island, for talk magazine years ago. But we didn’t know each other, what can I say, it was one of the best summers of my life being surrounded by all these talented people and trying to pay homage to the romantic comedies of the 40’s.

Who were your screen idols growing up?

Pierce: Well, I really didn’t come to any realization of what comedies were till I was in my teens , late teens, and in those years it was Clint Eastwood, Steve McQueen, they were my cinematic heroes, Warren Beatty and it wasn’t till I came to the states and did Remington Steele, the executive director of Remington Steele said he was going to do an old fashioned romantic comedy so I began to look into Cary Grant movies, Spencer Tracey movies, ugh, I actually grew up on Spencer Tracey movies because my grandfather loved watching those movies, um, and then I , by that time I was a mature actor a realized how brilliant they were. So during my Remington Steele days, I was swimming in those waters.

I was aware recently that you approached Brett Ratner about doing a Bond Film; can you talk a little about that?

Pierce: Brett was somebody who came on the stage with great presence, humor, passion, technique and just a joy of film with the movies he’s made, with Money Talks, Rush Hour, Rush Hour 2, so I wanted to know if he wanted to do a Bond film, then the people doing the Bond film, just didn’t want to do anything at all with Bond, so it didn’t work out.

Where does the new Bond film stand right now?

Pierce: It doesn’t stand anywhere. As far as I’m concerned I’ve honored my four films on my contract, if they want me again they know where they can find me.

How long do you want to do this? Do you think there is someone else who could be a James Bond?

Pierce: There’ll always be another James Bond, if I’m the fifth, there’ll be a sixth.

Do you know who it could be? Have they talked about anyone?

Pierce: Oh, they’ve mentioned Hugh Jackman, Clive Owen, I think anyone of them could be Bond, I have no idea, I really don’t lose any sleep over that. If this is the end of the ride, so be it, it put me on the landscape on the international level, which is huge for any actors career!

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