Max Irons shades his early films: It gets your foot in the door, I suppose

Ive never paid any attention to Max Irons, son of Jeremy Irons, before today. I had heard the name, of course, and some of you tried to convince me that he was hot (hot enough to marry his father for tax purposes?). So thats why I actually took a moment to skim Maxs new interview

I’ve never paid any attention to Max Irons, son of Jeremy Irons, before today. I had heard the name, of course, and some of you tried to convince me that he was hot (hot enough to marry his father for tax purposes?). So that’s why I actually took a moment to skim Max’s new interview and pictorial with Town & Country. And you know what? He seems like a douche-canoe. Sorry. The nepotism is strong with this one, and it’s really obvious that he considers his new role (he’s in the new Starz show The White Queen) as his long-awaited freedom from the young-adult-film genre. Here are some highlights from the T&C piece:

On the monarchy and aristocracy: “I like the monarchy… I like the queen; I like the princes,” he says, noting that they’re good for public morale. “But the rest of them? The Duke of Cornwall or Norfolk, you know, who doesn’t work, maybe does a very little bit of charity but has a vast inherited fortune and land that was all accumulated because of the feudal system?” he says, smiling crookedly. “Get rid of them!”

Playing King Edward IV in The White Queen: “It’s a bit Downton Abbey–meets–Game of Thrones,” he says. Indeed, the show is jam-packed with battles, betrayals, scheming dukes, and pay-cable nudity. “The Starz cut contains breasts and buttocks,” he says, without blushing. “The BBC cut doesn’t.”

Trying a wig: “I looked like Legolas from The Lord of the Rings, so we lost it on the first day.”

Who did he base the role on? Bill Clinton, Mick Jagger, Prince William, and, somewhat incongruously, Harvey Weinstein. “I was at an event with him recently, and the room seemed to orbit around him,” Irons says. “I once met Jay-Z, and it felt the same way.”

His early roles in 2011’s Red Riding Hood and 2013’s The Host: “Up to this point I’ve been involved in young adult fiction,” he says, shrugging. “It gets your foot in the door, I suppose.”

Failing publicly: “My dad said once, ‘Max hasn’t really had an opportunity to fail privately,'” he says. “My dad worked on small stages, instead of finding himself on the big screen, where if you fail, you’ve failed very, very publicly.” Irons says he recently turned down the lead in “a particularly large franchise” as “another male with romantic leanings and a six-pack.”

His goal: “You don’t want to earn your millions and then be nowhere in six years. I want to be working in 60 years.”

[From Town & Country]

“It gets your foot in the door, I suppose.” He said with a shrug and an impertinent sigh. “I mean, it’s not like anyone would really pay attention to me if I wasn’t Jeremy Irons’ son. It’s not like I have shown producers and directors that I can carry a role or a film. But it’s all so plebian, you see. One must get one’s foot in the door doing all of this common mediocrity.” Yeah, you know what I think about actors who shade their work. You don’t have to tell me that The Host or Red Riding Hood was the greatest film experience ever, but you know what? Be happy that you’re working. Be happy that someone hired you, because you seem like a smug douche.

As for The White Queen – it’s based on Philippa Gregory’s novels, about the beginning of the War of the Roses, in 1464. Swedish actress Rebecca Ferguson plays The White Queen, Elizabeth Woodville.

Photos courtesy of Kevin O’Brien/Town & Country.


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