Why Rising Irish Hollywood Hunk Has No Time For Movie Stars Sunday World, September 29, 2002 Meyers: I’m Not Playing Fame Game Irish Hollywood heart-throb Jonathan Rhys Meyers has revealed why he won’t be spending time with his new-found movie pals. The Cork actor, who shot to fame as the man who shot Michael Collins in Neil Jordan’s movie, says he couldn’t do his job if he spent his life with other film stars. “What happens to a lot of actors is that they go out and get a...
Really, I Want to Read You A Story Daily Express, September 21, 2002 When Bend It Like Beckham star Jonathan Rhys Meyers left a message on radio producer Seamus Hosey’s phone asking him to give him a ring, Hosey thought it was a “complete wind-up”. But after a few probing questions he quickly realised that the voice on the other end of the phone line was indeed Jonathan’s. The 25-year-old Irish actor–voted the 34th sexiest man in the world by Cosmopolitan readers–was at home in Cork between roles when...
Jonathan recently attended a premiere party in France for “The Importance of Being Ernest”, a film due for release in the UK on September 6. An article about this party was featured in the September 1 Style issue of the Sunday Times. There is also a photo of Jonathan from this party in the latest Hello Magazine. His next film, “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead”, is due to start production this month. It’s being made in part by Paramount Classics, a US production company.
Wilde things By Sasha Slater Sunday Times, Style section, September 1, 2002 The launch party for the latest Britflick was an Oscar performance, says SASHA SLATER The dinner party is dead, it is claimed. We’re too stressed to have a good time, too tired to cook and too busy (and much too politically correct) for spiky conversations. Can this really be true? Is the text-message generation incapable of witty repartee? To celebrate the release of the new Britflick The Importance of Being Earnest, the publicists decided to prove that...
