Can we stop at an isolated ramshackle hut of a restaurant and eat?
Going for Greatness by Michael Dwyer The Irish Times, October 31, 1998 At 21, Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers realises fame is no longer his spur. His mission is to be a great actor, and with 12 films in three years, he’s well on his way. He talks to Michael Dwyer. When the American writer-director Todd Haynes was casting the young Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers as an enigmatic, bisexual pop star in the glam-rock opus Velvet Goldmine, he commented: “Johnny is just incredible. Being 19 is a full-time job as it is, and here he is, playing this role that demands so many different aspects – vulnerability as an actor, transforming completely from era to era, performance skill and singing ability.” When Ang Lee, the Taiwanese film-maker behind Sense and Sensibility and The Ice Storm was casting his recent American Civil War production, To Live On, he chose Rhys Meyers to play the villain of the piece. “Johnny’s fabulous to look at,” he said. “Personally, I feel he has a poetic quality.” W
