Brosnan’s star power on rise with flurry of new films

[Blowfeld]

By Stephen Schaefer
Saturday, February 27, 2010 - Updated 5h ago

BERLIN - It’s shaping up to be a good year for Pierce Brosnan fans. The 56-year-old actor is in no less than four movies this season - the recent “Percy Jackson and the Olympians,” in which he plays a centaur; “The Ghost Writer”; next month’s “The Greatest,” which teams him with Susan Sarandon; and “Remember Me,” with “Twilight” star Robert Pattinson.

He refers to the last two as “bookends.”

“In both I’m a grieving father. One is from Brooklyn, a very high-powered businessman and distant from the grief and the death. The other is a mathematician with a wife and a middle-class life, who is desperately coping with the loss of his son,” he said.

First up, though, is “The Ghost Writer,” in which he plays Adam Lang, a former British prime minister who hires a writer to complete his memoirs, an act which uncovers secrets and a web of deceit.

The thriller won Roman Polanski a Best Director award at the recent Berlin Film Festival.

Ex-PM Lang, a Tony Blair-style politician, lives in a protective bubble, surrounded by a security squad and flanked by assistants - including a mysterious blonde (Kim Cattrall) who may be his mistress.

Brosnan laughed at the idea he might live similarly.

“Good God, no! I live a normal life - at home,” he said of his Malibu residence. “I get up and take the boys to school, walk the dog, jog, do a bit of a workout. Boring workouts.”

The father of two boys in his current marriage to Keely Shaye Smith, he has three children, including 26-year-old actor Sean from his first marriage to Cassandra Harris, who died in 1991.

“I try to maintain some kind of semblance of life,” he said. “Outside of work, I read, paint and pick the boys up from school.”

But still, he is James Bond.

“I was James Bond - but once James Bond always James Bond. It’s a small group of men now who have played this character and I have nothing but gratitude for that time in life.”

“The Ghost Writer” opens Friday.

[Dr. No]

he has some good films coming out. Has any one seen the Lighting Thief? I kinda want to take the kids to it but I don't want have to walk out if it gets too scary for them. Probably a DVD rental for us.

[Kristatos]

he has some good films coming out. Has any one seen the Lighting Thief? I kinda want to take the kids to it but I don't want have to walk out if it gets too scary for them. Probably a DVD rental for us.

There are several good websites for parents that can help give you an idea of what to expect. Check out http://www.screenit.com or http://www.pbbfc.co.uk.

[Dr. No]

Thanks Kris. It has pretty good ratings so far. It such a bother top get everyone to the theater I just have reservations because I don't know the film series. Some of teh greek mythology can be freaky