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Evening Standard

Advantage Jonny By Edward Helmore Evening Standard, December 2, 2005 Born in poverty in Ireland, lost in drink on the set of ‘Alexander’, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers has turned a corner to work with Woody Allen and Tom Cruise. It’s time to clean up, he tells Edward Helmore. With a super-sized plate of scrambled eggs and side order of bacon untouched in front of him, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers is holding court on what must be every actor’s favourite subject — himself. He is an engaging character, easily charismatic enough to...

02 December 2005 | 0 Comments
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Wonderland

The Tinkerman By Nicholas Barber Wonderland, December/January 2006 Heralded as one of Britain’s brightest young actors, Jonathan Rhys Meyers already has an impressive CV that should have seen him make the big time long ago. Somehow it has eluded him. Until now, reckons Nicholas Barber The summer before last, Jonathan Rhys Meyers was slaving away on Woody Allen’s latest film, Match Point, a job that required him to spend a fair amount of time rubbing baby oil into Scarlett Johanssen’s back. “It’s all in a day’s work, really,” says...

01 December 2005 | 0 Comments
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New York Times

At Home in Oliver’s Macedonia and Woody’s London By Sharon Waxman New York Times, November 6, 2005 He’s lanky and looks dangerous, with his ice-blue eyes and wax-white complexion. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, who plays an Irish tennis pro flirting with the British upper crust in Woody Allen’s dark new drama, “Match Point” (Dec. 28), greets a visitor at the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Los Angeles wearing a layered grunge look: beat-up leather jacket over hooded sweatshirt over T-shirt and ripped bell-bottom jeans. His cowboy boots are hand-tooled and look as...

06 November 2005 | 0 Comments
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Mixte

Boy on Fire By Dave Calhoun Mixte, September 2005 He’s charmed Hollywood with his sultry pout, playing rockstars and tearaways. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers talks about working with Woody Allen and donning Elvis’ quiff. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers has a lot of balls. I know this because I’m standing next to the 28-year-old actor in photographer David Bailey’s central London studio and I can see his testicles protruding from within a very tight pair of stylish white briefs. I know this for another reason too: only someone with balls of absolute steel would...

01 September 2005 | 0 Comments
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Match Point

Match Point By Todd McCarthy Variety, May 12, 2005 A change of scenery does Woody Allen a world of good in “Match Point.” Making his first film in the U.K. with a story originally conceived for New York, Allen once again takes up issues of morality and guilt in what amounts to “An English Tragedy,” as in Theodore Dreiser. Well-observed and superbly cast picture is the filmmaker’s best in quite a long time and as such reps an attractive potential acquisition for a U.S. distrib keen to break Allen’s...

12 May 2005 | 0 Comments
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Parade

In Step with….Jonathan Rhys Meyers By James Brady Parade, May 1, 2005 Elvis Presley died 27 years ago. But next Sunday, CBS will begin airing a two-night, four-hour miniseries called Elvis, which has the blessing of the Presley estate and the use of its master recordings. It stars a talented young Irish actor, Jonathan Rhys Meyers. If you don’t recognize his name, you soon may. Rhys Meyers played the soccer coach in that wonderful little movie Bend It Like Beckham and last year was in Oliver Stone’s Alexander. He’s...

01 May 2005 | 0 Comments
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San Jose Mercury News

Young actor will bring Elvis back to the small screen — again San Jose Mercury News, March 11, 2005 NEW ORLEANS – Just 21 days old on the day Elvis Presley died, high-intensity Irishman Jonathan Rhys Meyers is the latest ascender to The King’s throne. So here he is onstage at the Scottish Rite Temple on Carondelet Street, where Masons usually call the tune. Preparing to replicate Elvis’ first national TV performance, on the Jan. 28, 1956, edition of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey’s Stage Show, Rhys Meyers revs himself...

11 March 2005 | 0 Comments
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I-D Magazine

Jonathan By Skye Sherwin I-D Magazine, February 2005 Beautiful and damned: Rhys Meyers is back to hustle Jonathan Rhys Meyers struts into the bar in the slinkiest bar of tan leather trousers, lights a cigarette, fiddles iwth his cup and saucer and proceeds to throw out seductive glances with giddy momentum: part ingenue, part hustler. This is clearly a good time for Meyers. First up he has Mira Nair’s Vanity Fair adaptation in which he plays spoiled party child George Osborne. Then there’s his starring turn in...

01 February 2005 | 0 Comments
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Sunday Times

The man who would be King By Gerry McCarthy Sunday Times, January 9, 2005 His role in Alexander was fleeting but stardom beckons for Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Elvis Presley, says Gerry McCarth Oliver Stone was being magnanimous. He had agreed to see an unknown young actor from Ireland. The American director was accustomed to deference, respect for his power and submission to his ego. With Jonathan Rhys Meyers, however, he got precisely the opposite. “When I was 18 years old,” says Rhys Meyers, “I did an audition for...

09 January 2005 | 0 Comments
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Irish Independent

Performance Artist By Vickie Maye Irish Independent, Day & Night supplement, January 7, 2005 Even with no cameras around – and with a hangover to deal with – Jonathan Rhys Meyers is a great performer, as Vickie Maye found out. Jonathan Rhys Meyers has seen better days. The eyes that (mostly female) interviewers fawn over are bloodshot. The chiselled cheekbones (that “enter a room before he does”, according to one Vogue writer) today merely serve to frame the dark, almost bruised-looking circles under his eyes. The hair hasn’t been...

07 January 2005 | 0 Comments
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