Jeremy Irons Meets Hungarian Prime Minister

Jeremy Irons appeared on Saturday 27 October 2012, in the Hungarian Parliament, where Prime Miniser Viktor Orban presented a high state award to conductor Gyorgy Solti’s widow, Lady Valerie Solti. She received the Median Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit with Star for maintaining the world famous conductor’s intellectual legacy, as well as for supporting Hungarian talent and culture. Lady Valerie Solti was in Budapest on a four-day visit, following an invitation from Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Jeremy Irons and the Prime Minister spoke at the ceremony.

Some photos courtesy of www.zoltanbalog.hu

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Jeremy Irons talks ‘Trashed’ in AARP The Magazine

Jeremy Irons is featured on page 12 of the October/November 2012 issue of AARP The Magazine, talking about the documentary Trashed.

Read the entire current edition of this month’s AARP The Magazine – HERE.  Jeremy’s article is in the October/November 2012 edition with Tim Allen on the cover.

Tim Allen on the cover of AARP The Magazine

Jeremy Irons at Vidal Sassoon Memorial Service

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Jeremy Irons was among the stars who turned out to remember the life of legendary hair stylist Vidal Sassoon in London on Friday 12 October 2012. The veteran hair designer passed away at his home in Los Angeles home in May of 2012 at the age of 84, following a battle with leukaemia. A memorial was held at St Paul’s Cathedral in London and Sassoon’s famous friends and clients flocked to pay tribute to him at the ceremony.

From telegraph.co.uk:

Before his reading of “To An Athlete Dying Young” by A. E. Houseman, Jeremy Irons recalled how he met Sassoon quite late in life. Sassoon was ill when he and his wife Ronnie had arrived to stay with him at his ‘tower’ in Cork. Ronnie had told him that Vidal would be better off sleeping downstairs. “Shall I bring you down a cup of tea?” Irons had asked them, to which Sassoon responded by bounding up the stairs, “This is marvellous! Can I sleep at the top?”

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New ‘Beautiful Creatures’ Featurette and Screencaps

The featurette is also viewable HERE, for those outside of the USA.

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Jeremy Irons Believes in Marriage – New interview from stop.hu

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Translated from Hungarian:

Jeremy Irons, there is no better system

Jeremy Irons has spent a long time shooting in Hungary. The Academy Award and Golden Globe winning British actor has been happily married for decades. His wife is actress Sinéad Cusack, they have two sons.

Marriage provides a framework to raise children. There are countries where it is useful to be married due to the tax system, in other cultures it signals that “off with your hands”! Personally, I believe it is still the best institution to raise a child. If I had fallen in love with someone, with whom we hadn’t wanted children, I would not have been interested in this bond, but if your intents are serious, then marriage is the only way. There are storms in all marriages, but the kids need two parents, even if you argue sometimes – says Jeremy Irons, who believes in marriage.

Not that marriage is a walk in the park, but it is important in raising children. My kids have already flew out, but every parent knows that kids do not ever really fly out. They need maternal-paternal care even when they are over thirty. And deep down it is important for them to know mum and dad are fine.

Source: STOP / Naturopathic News | STOP

Jeremy Irons in Transylvania

Jeremy Irons was recently in Transylvania. An art group from Tatabanya (Hungarian city), whose photographers met him in Transylvania, captured him enjoying some local cuisine and beverage.

Jeremy Irons Narrates ‘The British’ on SKY Atlantic

Jeremy Irons is one of the many celebrity narrators on the SKY Atlantic series The British, airing in the autumn of 2012.

From the SKY website:

Combining gripping drama, spectacular CGI and compelling commentary, The British is an ambitious and unmissable new series which tells the history of Britain and Ireland from the Roman invasion to the birth of TV and the Coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953.

Spanning two thousand years, the series uncovers the surprising stories of the unsung heroes as well as the well-known icons of history. Some of the UK’s most recognizable names from the worlds of entertainment, politics, sport, science and history – including Jeremy Irons, Dame Helen Mirren, Sir Terry Wogan, Jessie J, Russell Brand, Colin Jackson, Frank Lampard, Lord Robert Winston and Prof. Jeremy Black – share their unique insights on how thousands of years of British history have shaped the people and nation we are today.

Essex-born actor, comedian and writer Russell Brand said: “It’s nice to be able to reach back into the past and feel that you have an identity that’s built on an oceanic, rolling history” while Oscar® winning actress Dame Helen Mirren said of her national identity: “If you wanted to teach someone who knew absolutely nothing about the British people, it would be very good to guide them to Shakespeare – you could see the foolishness, the humour, the brutality; it’s all in almost every play.”

Sky is also running an educational initiative to support the series. Aiming to give pupils an enthralling insight into 2,000 years of the history of Great Britain, the initiative will target pupils from ages 7 – 14 with an educational plan tailored to the series.

As part of this campaign, Sky has produced free, flexible teaching and learning resources for ages 7-11 and 11-14, which will be specifically tailored towards each episode of the seven-part series. Click here to find out more about the educational resources for The British.

Explore episode 1 – Treasure Islands (54BC – AD500)

Explore episode 2 – People Power (1066 – 1415)

Explore episode 3 – Revolution (1541 – 1641)

Explore episode 4 – Dirty Money (1666 – 1820)

Explore episode 5 – Superpower (1770 – 1851)

Explore episode 6 – Tale of Two Cities (1851 – 1891)

Explore episode 7 – War and Peace (1891 – 1953)

Max Irons in ‘The White Queen’

Max Irons is set to star in The White Queen, a 10-part BBC adaptation of Philippa Gregory’s 2009 novel of the same name, from her bestselling novel series The Cousins’ War, which centers on the life of Elizabeth Woodville the wife of Edward IV. The drama was filmed in Bruges, Belgium in the fall and winter of 2012.

Max will portray King Edward IV. Rebecca Ferguson, James Frain, Janet McTeer, David Oakes, Juliet Aubrey, Eleanor Tomlinson, Frances Tomelty, Michael Maloney, Ben Lamb, Hugh Mitchell, Simon Ginty, Eve Ponsonby and Robert Pugh will also appear in the drama. The mini-series has also been picked up by the Starz! network in the U.S. for broadcast in 2013.

Read more from the BBC Media Centre.

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Jeremy Irons at the Raindance Film Festival

Jeremy Irons was on hand at the Apollo Cinema in Piccadilly Circus in London for the Raindance Independent Film Festival screening of his documentary Trashed, on Saturday 29 September 2012.

He and director Candida Brady also participated in a Q & A session after the screening.

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Max Irons Photographed by Davis Factor 2012

All photos ©Davis Factor www.davisfactor.com

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