Pierce Brosnan's kids join him in ‘The Unholy Trinity' alongside Samuel L. Jackson
It's a family affair for Pierce Brosnan.
The actor's two sons, Dylan, 28, and Paris, 24, whom he shares with wife Keely Shaye Smith, are filling up their resumes as they star alongside their dad in his latest film, 'The Unholy Trinity.'
The trailer dropped on Friday, featuring Brosnan, 71, as Irish lawman Gabriel Dove, and Samuel L. Jackson as an outlaw who goes by the name St. Christopher.
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9 Pierce Brosnan in 'The Unholy Trinity' trailer.
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As the synopsis states, the film follows 'a tale of revenge, dark secrets and buried treasures.'
'Buried secrets of an 1870s Montana town spark violence when a young man returns to reclaim his legacy and is caught between a sheriff determined to maintain order and a mysterious stranger hell-bent on destroying it.'
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'It picks up in the moments before the execution of Isaac Broadway, as he gives his estranged son Henry an impossible task: Murder the man who framed him for a crime he didn't commit.'
9 Samuel L. Jackson in 'The Unholy Trinity' trailer.
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In the western, Paris plays a character named Thomas while Dylan portrays a pastor.
'I had my two sons with me, they are in the movie,' Brosnan gushed to Variety in 2024. 'If they want to be actors, I am not going to stop them. They know how difficult it is.'
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The 'MobLand' star also revealed what drew him to starring in this action-packed western in the first place.
'I grew up watching them as a boy,' Brosnan told the outlet. Of his character, he added, 'He's a decent man, trying to do the best he can. So many fellow Irishmen and women built the West on their shoulders. They wanted to create lives for themselves and there is romance to that.'
9 The trailer for the new Western 'The Unholy Trinity.'
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Along with Paris and Dylan, the 'Black Bag' actor is dad to sons Christopher, 52, and Sean, 41, from his first marriage to Cassandra Harris. The couple was married for 11 years until her death in 1991 from ovarian cancer. Their daughter Charlotte also died from ovarian cancer at the age of 41 in 2013.
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Charlotte and Christopher's father Dermot Harris died in 1986 and Pierce adopted the children and raised them as his own.
A year after Charlotte's death, in 2014, at a Stand Up To Cancer fundraiser, Brosnan spoke about losing his daughter and wife to cancer.
9 Dylan Brosnan, Pierce Brosnan, Keely Shaye Smith and Paris Brosnan.
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'To watch someone you love have his or her life eaten away bit by bit by this insidious disease, that part of your sorrow becomes an indelible part of your psyche,' he said, per Entertainment Tonight. 'I held the generous, strong, beautiful hand of my first wife Cassie as ovarian cancer took her life much too soon. Just last year, I held the hand of my funny, wonderful daughter Charlotte before she, too, died from this wretched inherited disease.'
'[Life] can be snatched away without any prior warning, so why waste it?' he reiterated to The Herald in 2015. 'That's why I enjoy my wonderful, beautiful family, my children and my grandchildren.'
After Cassandra's death, Brosnan went on to marry Smith, 61, in August 2001 in Ireland.
9 Pierce Brosnan, his wife Keely Shaye Smith and their sons Paris Brosnan (R) and Dylan Brosnan arrive for the 77th annual Golden Globe Awards on January 5, 2020.
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While his older children live private lives outside of the entertainment industry, both Dylan and Paris are no strangers to the spotlight.
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The pair were chosen to be Golden Globes Ambassadors at the 2020 award show.
'[I feel] lucky to be doing this with my brother and having that support,' Dylan told People at the time, noting how the ceremony came 'with an amount of pressure so it's great to be there together.'
In 2021, during a live chat on People's Instagram, Brosnan and Dylan reminisced on his childhood and visiting his dad on movie sets.
9 Pierce Brosnan poses with his sons.
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9 Pierce Brosnan with his wife and kids.
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'Do you remember coming down to the James Bond set [for] 'Die Another Day?'' the star asked Dylan, to which he replied, 'That was really cool.'
'I was really young, but I loved the cars … and you had the cars, you had the hovercrafts, and I was really obsessed with the hovercrafts.'
But it was evident Dylan was more interested in the cars than his dad's work.
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'I had to dive and weave my way through this minefield, and I always remember standing there thinking, 'There's my boy. There's Dylan,' ' reflected Brosnan. 'I could see you across the lot in this massive moment that was about to happen. … And I got to the end of it and I said, 'How was it?' And you said, 'Are the cars okay, Daddy?'
9 Paris Brosnan, Pierce Brosnan and Dylan Brosnan arrives at the Los Angeles Premiere Of Netflix's 'The Out-Laws' at Regal LA Live on June 26, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.
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Dylan and Paris also joined Brosnan for a shoot in People's 2022 Sexiest Man Alive issue, where they reflected on growing up with a famous father.
'We have the best parents you could ask for,' Dylan gushed.
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Paris, meanwhile, teased about Brosnan's parenting style, adding: 'I mean, he's an actor, so he can get medieval real quick as he would say.'
9 Paris Brosnan, Dylan Brosnan, Alex Lee-Aillón, and Pierce Brosnan attend Netflix's Special Screening of 'The Out-Laws' on June 26, 2023.
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'We keep it pretty mellow. But he could put on an energy that was a force to be reckoned with!'
'The Unholy Trinity' hits theaters on June 13.
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