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Joined: 16 Nov 2007 Posts: 584 Location: Lebanon, Virginia, USA
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 6:18 pm Post subject: Jonathan Rhys Meyers
So Young King Henry VIII himself was popped for drunk and disorderly in the Dublin airport Sunday.
Me, I was shocked to hear of such behaviour from an Irish actor.
Not really.
Reminds me of the time I and some friends of mine were asked to leave the train station in Dublin due to our own drunken jackassery. The Irish 5.0s can be quite intimidating when they want to be, let me tell you.
My experiences in the old country lead me to agree with Meyers on the difficulty of staying sober in old Hibernia, what with the pub culture and all. I think he'd have better luck staying dry in the ocean.
From CNN.com:
In an interview last year on the set of "The Tudors," Rhys Meyers said he felt restricted socializing in Ireland because of its hard-drinking pub culture.
"I gave up drinking a few years ago, and this is the first time I've spent time in my country trying not to drink," he told The Associated Press in October 2006.
"I would never drink again. It is hard to avoid. But listen, you do what you want to do. I don't want to do that," he said. "I want my career, and you can't really do that and be successful on the screen.
"I'm young. If I grow older, which I hope I do, there's going to be an awful lot of time to sit in your 60s and 70s and 80s, lots of time for Southern Comfort and ice then," he said. "Now? I've got business to take care of."
Yeah, Jonathan. There've never been any successful alcoholic actors. Wha?
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Joined: 16 Nov 2007 Posts: 159 Location: Pittsburgh
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:00 pm Post subject:
heh. The only Irish men I've ever drunk with would get halfway down a pint, immediately flag down the waitress and order the next round. She'd get back with the drinks and then it was all an innocent "oh look! She's here with fresh drinks! We'd better give her our glasses!" and then down would go the last bits. And it would start all over again, halfway through. There was never an empty glass on the table!
Joined: 16 Nov 2007 Posts: 584 Location: Lebanon, Virginia, USA
Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 5:46 am Post subject: A dose of perspective.
I just read on TVGuide.com that this incident is directly related to his depresion over his mother's recent admission to hospital for serious illness, to which she has now succumbed. Sad stuff.
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--“If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake, I drink your milkshake! Thhhhht! I drink it up!” -Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood.
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