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Indian Express
12-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Pierce Brosnan chokes on Jimmy Fallon's tomato salsa but Helen Mirren is unfazed and keeps on eating
It was fun times on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, as the host was joined by legendary actors Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren, who were there to promote their new film The Thursday Murder Club. The veteran actors shared some insights about the film and their current lives and enjoyed seeing host Fallon make a tomato salsa sauce right there in front of them. While the initial reaction to the sauce was positive, it seems like James Bond is slowing down with age. Jimmy Fallon thanked the two stars for being there, as he shared with the audience a picture of Helen Mirren's last appearance on the show during the pandemic. Mirren gave an interview via ZOOM, and she gave it while taking a bubble bath in her home. When asked about her choice of venue for the interview, Mirren said, 'I thought I might as well be comfortable.' Brosnan admitted that he too has dabbled in the bubble bath sphere and that it was one of the 'daft' things he did when he was discovering America. Fallon, then, pulled a plate with several ingredients to make a salsa sauce during the show. ALSO READ: Jennifer Aniston opens up about her divorce from Brad Pitt: 'It was such juicy reading for people' Helen Mirren was quite happy with the idea, but Pierce Brosnan wasn't a hundred per cent sure after smelling the tomatoes and seeing Jimmy Fallon struggle while cutting them. He even quipped, 'Well, it seemed like a good idea in the morning, didn't it, Jimmy?' Fallon pulled himself up by the bootstraps and finished the sauce, which was then sampled by the stars with some nachos. Both loved the salsa, but as the jalapeno started kicking in, Brosnan's face started changing, and he started to cough. He took his cup and started taking several sips of the beverage as he continued coughing profusely. During this, Mirren couldn't give a damn and kept on eating the nachos with the salsa while complimenting Fallon. Brosnan said, 'I don't do hot sauce or jalapenos in general. Sorry, it's okay, I'll be fine; you two carry on.' Pierce Brosnan and Helen Mirren also talked about The Thursday Murder Club, and their role in the first season of Mobland. Fallon stated, 'I have been watching you in Mobland, and my god, you guys are evil.' Mirren and Brosnan laughed it off before she gave a slight peck on his cheek, and Brosnan said, 'Jalapeno kisses.' The Queen actor then shared how amazing it was working with the cast and said, 'What's great about The Thursday Murder Club is that we all knew each other from before. I worked with Ben Kingsley when I was doing theatre in my 20s. I have worked with Celia Emrie; she was in Calendar Girl, and she was brilliant. It was like working with a group of people with whom you went to college.' Brosnan then revealed that he worked with Mirren in his very first film, The Long Good Friday, directed by John Mackenzie.
Mint
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Mint
HEARTFELT QUOTES
Quotes about friendship often capture the bond built on trust, loyalty, and deep understanding. True friendship is rare, and its value is immeasurable. Credit : PEXELS Page 2 The myth of dragons likely originated from ancient discoveries of dinosaur fossils, which varied in size and shape, inspiring tales of winged, clawed, reptilian beasts. Credit : PINTEREST Page 3 The ending of The Long Good Friday is iconic, as the camera lingers on Bob Hoskins' expressive face for a full minute, viewers witness a silent, powerful reckoning. Credit : PINTEREST Page 4
Mint
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Mint
MYTH OR REAL?
The myth of dragons likely originated from ancient discoveries of dinosaur fossils, which varied in size and shape, inspiring tales of winged, clawed, reptilian beasts. Credit : PINTEREST Page 2 The ending of The Long Good Friday is iconic, as the camera lingers on Bob Hoskins' expressive face for a full minute, viewers witness a silent, powerful reckoning. Credit : PINTEREST Page 3
Mint
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Mint
TOUCHING FINALES
The ending of The Long Good Friday is iconic, as the camera lingers on Bob Hoskins' expressive face for a full minute, viewers witness a silent, powerful reckoning. Credit : PINTEREST Page 2
Sunday World
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sunday World
Pierce Brosnan hits back at criticism of Irish accent in Mobland
The Drogheda-born and Navan-raised star plays the lead role in director Guy Ritchie's Paramount+ series Pierce Brosnan has responded to criticism of his Irish accent in TV series MobLand after it was described as 'all over the place'. The Drogheda-born and Navan-raised star plays the lead role in director Guy Ritchie's Paramount+ series. The contemporary crime drama is based around the fictional Harrigan family and their influence on London's criminal underworld. It features Brosnan (72) and Dame Helen Mirren, 46 years after they both starred in John Mackenzie's iconic 1979 gangster film The Long Good Friday. But the veteran screen stars have found themselves taking heat over their Irish accents in the new show, with Brosnan's in particular coming under fire. In their review of the show, The Irish Independent dismissed it as 'all over the place and a huge distraction', but the actor argued that his role as family patriarch Conrad Harrigan demanded a broader Irish accent than his own. 'My own accent is very soft,' he says in the latest issue of Radio Times. 'Conrad's accent is a million miles away from me.' He went on to explain that the inspiration for the accent was a man suggested by his dialect coach, adding: "I told him that I needed a Kerry accent, so he gave me the name of a man and I googled the guy and that was it. Pierce Brosnan News in 90 Seconds - May 27th "It was a Kerry accent and so I just gave it full tilt." The "brutish, cunning, charming and dangerous' Conrad is the flipside of the suave and sophisticated secret agent James Bond who Brosnan depicted across four blockbuster films from 1995 to 2002. Saying he enjoys playing the villain, Brosnan added: 'like him. I love him. I enjoy him. I mean, I don't want to be that person – he's a psychopath. 'Yes, there are no holds barred. You own the stage, you have wings to fly and be anything you wish.' Brosnan is working with celebrated director Ritchie for the first time in Mobland, who had made his mark from Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels to big-budget Hollywood reinterpretations of Sherlock Holmes. 'I have great admiration for Guy Ritchie's work and the style that he has created for himself,' Brosnan said. 'The landscape of film-making that he has embroidered over the years is wildly entertaining.' Referring to the Harrigans, he said the family is 'mangled and warped, twisted, incestuous and dangerous'. Brosnan who was 25-years old when he made his screen debut as an unnamed IRA assassin in The Long Good Friday, is reuniting with Mirren - who also stars alongside him in forthcoming film The Thursday Murder Club 'It still holds up as a British gangster movie,' Brosnan said of the iconic flick. 'And now, all these years later, Helen and I are working together again.' In the interview, Brosnan also spoke of the worry and excitement he faces when taking on new roles, saying: "Every job is a challenge and it all comes with a thump of anxiety, because you have to do something. "What are you doing on the stage? Why are you there? So that's constant. You live with that. You live with that stress all the time, and that's what's so exhilarating. "That's what makes you alive." Brosnan will appear in a film adaptation of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club book, which is set for release in August.
