The Guard interview w/ Brendan Gleeson
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Brendan Gleeson on Sgt.
Gerry Boyle:
He's the last of the independents -- according to himself -- who has seen quite a lot of life, in the sense that not an awful lot has happened to him and he's had plenty of time to think about it. He's quite erudite and well-read. He listens to music and watches films, to quite a staggering degree, but you wouldn't know it from his general conversation, as he keeps it well hidden. He's a bit of a hard-bitten man, but as with a lot of cynics, there's an idealist hidden in there somewhere. His main flaws are that he's closed-up. He's a bit of a maverick and he does take the odd illegal substance -- just to try them out. He's quite stringent about integrity. He has a ferocious honesty and that does not allow him to consort with people who are fudging issues all over the place. But, at the same time, he's not a rigid stickler for the letter of the law, if it's nonsensical and not really in the human interest. He has no real time for it, which is a little bit of a disadvantage in a guardian of the
peace. Or maybe not?
BRENDAN GLEESON (Sgt. Gerry Boyle), a Dublin-born former teacher, left the profession to
pursue a career in his first love, acting and joined the
Irish theatre company
Passion Machine.
He landed his first starring role in
I Went Down, which was followed by his much acclaimed role
in
John Boorman's
The General. His performance gained him awards not only for
Best Actor at
the
1998 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards and Best Actor at the 1998
ALFS, but also the
Best Actor award at the
1999 Irish Film & Television Awards.
Gleeson's rise to fame began when he appeared in
Jim Sheridan's
The Field, followed by a
number of small roles in such films as
Far and Away and
Into the West. He attracted the
attention of
Hollywood when he starred as Hamish in the film
Braveheart, alongside
Mel
Gibson. Other notable screen credits include
John Woo's
Mission: Impossible II,
Steven
Spielberg's
A.I.:
Artificial Intelligence; John Boorman's
Tailor of Panama and
Country of My
Skull;
Danny Boyle's
28 Days Later; and
Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York.
Over the past few years Gleeson has become a household name after appearing in a number of successful films. His film credits include August
Nicholson in
M. Night Shyamalan's
The Village;
Cold Mountain directed by
Anthony Minghella;
Ridley Scott's
Kingdom of Heaven;
Breakfast on Pluto directed by
Neil Jordan;
Wolfgang Petersen's
Troy; Black Irish directed by
Brad Gann;
Studs directed by
Paul Mercier;
Harry Potter and the
Goblet of Fire directed by
Mike Newell; Harry Potter and the
Order of Phoenix directed by
David Yates; John Boorman's
The Tiger's Tail; and the motion capture
Beowulf directed by
Robert Zemeckis.
He also appeared in
In Bruges in 2009, under the direction of
Martin McDonagh, alongside
Colin Farrell and
Ralph Fiennes. It was nominated for a
Golden Globe® and a
BAFTA Award for his role. His recent credits include
Perrier's Bounty, directed by
Ian Fitzgibbon for
Parallel Films and
Green Zone, a
Paul Greengrass film with
Matt Damon. He also returned to the role of
Professor '
Mad-Eye' Moody in the seventh installment of the
Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows: Part 1. He also won an
Emmy Award for
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or
Movie for his portrayal of
Winston Churchill in
HBO's
Into the Storm directed by
Thaddeus O'Sullivan. The film garnered fourteen
Emmy nominations in total. A BlackTree
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