У рожденного в графстве Корк, актера Джонатана Рис Майерса чувственная, модельная внешность модели Кэлвина Кляйна. Эрин Маккэфферти близко пообщалась с кинозвездой.

Есть слух, что в настоящее время, Джонатан Рис Майерс собирается стать следующим Джеймсом Бондом.

25-летний актер из Корка думает, что это весело. «Я не знаю, откуда взялся этот слух», - смеется он. «В этом нет ни капли правды. Меня даже не просили пройти кастинг. Хотя я должен признать, что это – очень хорошая мысль», - спешит добавить он.

Джонатан Рис Майерс очарователен. Общеизвестно, что он крайне приватный человек и достаточно регулярно уклоняется от интервью. Однако, когда же он действительно открывается, он честен, забавен и удивительно неиспорчен своей быстрорастущей известностью.
Будучи наделенным прекрасной структурой своей рельефной внешности, у него совершенное и чувственное лицо.
Неудивительно, что "красивый" - слово используемое наиболее часто для того, чтобы описать его.
Он - человек из Графства Корк, который очень быстро стал одним из самых горячих и востребованных звезд в Голливуде. Ему еще нет 26 лет, а он уже делает свой 30-ый фильм и работал со многими из лучших режиссеров и актеров Голливуда.

В прошлом у него были роли глэм-рокера в «Бархатной Золотой жиле», фантасмагорический персонаж в готической драме «Gormenghast» и еще он стрелял в крутого парня в «Майкле Коллинзе». Он даже вынужден был отказаться от роли в «Банды Нью-Йорка», потому что был слишком занят. В настоящее время он находится в Лондоне, на репетициях роли в фильме «Ярмарка тщеславия».

«Прошлые несколько лет были довольно тяжелыми», - говорит он. “Я шел от одного фильма к другому за короткий промежуток времени. Тридцать фильмов за семь лет – это довольно много, и это оставляет совсем немного времени для чего-либо еще».

«В настоящее время, постоянно я не живу нигде. Я живу на чемоданах в любом месте, где я снимаюсь. Мне действительно принадлежит квартира в южном Марокко, и еще я купил дом в Корке, в котором живет моя мама, но если быть честным, я не бываю дома так часто, как мне хотелось бы».

«Я не встречаюсь с «мисс Ирландия», - говорит Джонатан. - «Я не употребляю наркотики и я даже не хочу знать, как это делается. Я встречаюсь со своими старыми друзьями так редко, и все больше нахожу, что мы становимся с ними разными. Но жаловаться я не должен. Я знаю, что до сих пор судьба была ко мне очень благосклонна».

Некоторые назвали бы это удачей, но другие определенно считают, что причина его успеха в его особом, уникальном таланте.
Рис Майерс сначала был найден искателем талантов в Корке, в весьма нежном возрасте – 16 лет и прошел кастинг на проект «Война пуговиц». Эту роль он не получил, но получил роль в рекламе Knorr. «О! Нет! Я забыл бы об этом», - смеется он.
С тех пор он, сыграл главные роли в одном фильме за другим и его репутация актера резко выросла. Теперь он звезда, которая украшает собой экран.

«Даже при том, что я сделал все эти фильмы, я не чувствую себя известным», - говорит Джонатан. - «Я всегда чувствую себя хорошо только в процессе работы. И до сих пор я все еще чувствую себя подобно аутсайдеру».
Атрибуты известности явно не затрагивают его. "Атрибуты популярности действительно не имеют значения для меня», - говорит он. “Я никогда не хотел быть знаменитостью. Но это произошло. В конце дня я ищу вечность».

“Конечно, у меня есть определенное желание денег, потому что я должен на что-то жить, но это не настолько важно для меня».

“Я никогда не смог бы жить в Голливуде, например, потому что там единственный результат – это доллар, а это не для меня».

“Что касается того, что меня называют секс-символом, то могу сказать только одно - хорошо, что Вы не видели меня в 11 часов сегодня утром», - смеется он. “Я не отношусь ни к одному из этих символов слишком серьезно».

Если бы он не был актером, то Джонатан хотел бы писать рассказы для детей. «Я не смог бы написать сценарий», - говорит он. – «Я счел бы это слишком странным для себя».

«Я предпочитаю играть. Когда я не играю, я пытаюсь расслабиться, но если честно, я не очень хорош в этом», - говорит он.
«Я люблю читать, слушать музыку, или иду в пуб, делаю обычные вещи обычных земных людей. Я никогда не был особенно хорош в расслаблении, уж поверьте мне. Вы могли поместить меня в бассейн с облаками, и у меня все равно получится быть нервным».

“Я никогда не забуду, когда я снимался с Гленн Клоуз в «Лев Зимой». Она очень помогла мне. Она сказала мне: «Тебе не надо так стараться. Абсолютно ничего не делай. Ты играешь каждой клеткой своего тела. И это дорогого стоит».
“В эти дни я занимаюсь все еще своей работой. Как исполнитель главной роли я должен быть солидным и более внимательным», - говорит он откровенно.
“Я люблю то, что я делаю большую часть своего времени. И иногда это - боль в заднице, но в конце дня я – счастливчик».

переведенно Lina

Jonathan Rhys Meyers stars as a tennis pro who befriends one of the wealthy patrons of the tennis club where he works in "Match Point," Woody Allen's first film set (and shot) in London.
Rhys Meyers plays Chris Wilton, a guy who wants more out of life than simply teaching rich people how to hit a tennis ball over a net. His life changes in ways he never could have anticipated when he makes friends with Tom Hewett (Matthew Goode), falls for Tom's sister Chloe (Emily Mortimer), and then winds up in an affair with Tom's sexy girlfriend, Nola (Scarlett Johansson).

Jonathan Rhys Meyers Explains Woody Allen’s Take on London: “I think Woody has a certain view of London that’s viewed from a man of means. It’s a very comparable city to New York, so he spent quite a bit of time there playing music. And he wrote ‘What’s New, Pussycat?’ while living in London. And he actually wrote most of it while being in the [place] where we shot the scene where myself and Scarlett go after her failed audition.

He has quite a view on London, and I think he did a very similar thing to the way he did Manhattan. He used the city as a character itself. You felt influenced by the situations that go on in the city, and the social class system in New York and London is very similar. ‘Match Point’ was written for New York. It could have been a tennis coach in the Hamptons but he got the money in London, which is the way he liked to work.”

Jonathan Rhys Meyers Shares His Opinion of Why Woody Allen Made “Match Point” in England: “I always think it’s a very difficult thing getting an amount of money out of people to make a film. It is a risk. There’s no guarantee. Woody mentioned this last night that he moved to London because they let him work the way he wants to work. He doesn’t allow people to see his script. Producers are not allowed to see dailies. You give him a bag of money, he gives you a film. They allowed him to work this way in London. He can’t work this way in America anymore. Producers want too much influence. They want influence in the cutting. They want to see the dailies, they want to kind of mold it and try to guarantee its success. And Woody recently has trouble breaking even sometimes, and that’s very risky.

We have to ask ourselves, ‘Would you give two million of your hard earned dollars to make a film that you have no guarantee of getting your money back?’ I think it’s a very, very risky thing. I think producers have a very, very hard time because they hold the financial burden that I couldn’t understand as an actor. I get paid my salary, I make the movie and I go onto my next job. But they have to see it all the way through and they have their own families and their own lives so I think it’s a bit of a risk. So I appreciate them when they do, but sometimes it’s frustrating if they don’t.”

Jonathan Rhys Meyers Admires Allen’s Style of Directing: “He’s very comfortable in his own skin to the point where if we’re lighting a shot, Woody would think nothing of having a nap. Just sits onto the sofa [while] everybody’s doing their thing.

I remember one day Scarlett decided to put a sticker on Woody’s lapel saying ‘Hello, My name is Dennis.’ Woody didn’t realize this for many, many hours. But when he found out it was indeed Scarlett… Because who else would have the gumption to go up and stick ‘Hello, My Name is Dennis on his lapel? It’s strange. His relationship with Scarlett was very funny because he’s so amused by her. I think if Woody could be a 21-year-old girl, he’d be Scarlett Johansson.”

Jonathan Rhys Meyers on Kissing in the Rain: “We could’ve done it in dry circumstances but… I’m not sure how it was written. I don’t remember, but it’s so sexy in the rain. It had to be used, even though it was very uncomfortable. I felt for Scarlett because…I bit her lip. It was very passionate because it was my opportunity to gorge myself.”

Rhys Meyers’ co-star Scarlett Johansson said that he ate her face during the film’s passionate kissing scene outside in the rain. “When people ask me what is it like to get to kiss other people, [I say] it’s a great pleasure. It is a great pleasure because you get to indulge in something that you wouldn’t normally indulge in life and you’re not judged for it, really. In the scene, even though the scene is sexy in the film, they’re never particularly sexy to film. They are incredibly sexy to watch. The way Woody shot it and the way Scarlett performed it and the energy that we had with each other, it was really hot. Hotter than I thought it would be. You find a 69 year old man trying to direct a sex scene, you’re wondering where he’s going with it but he managed it beautifully.”

Jonathan Rhys Meyers on Double Dating: Rhys Meyers’ character in “Match Point” goes on double dates but in real life, Rhys Meyers says that would never happen. “No. I wouldn’t go on a double date with anyone. I find it the most tedious, boring, awful, torturous situations - like Chinese water torture.”

Jonathan Rhys Meyers on Working with Actresses His Own Age: Rhys Meyers said age doesn’t matter. “I once did a scene with a 9-year-old who was the best f***ing actor I’ve ever met in my whole entire life, a f***ing genius, and he blew me off the screen. Shirley Temple was a better actress at four years old than a lot of women acting at her time. I don’t think it has anything to do with age. Natalie Wood or Natalie Portman or Leonardo [DiCaprio]; I mean, mind-blowing performances.

It’s what the person has in them rather than how old they are. But it’s easy to work with people who are very talented and Scarlett [Johansson] is very, very talented. …I [worked opposite] an actor who couldn’t f***ing act at all and that was really frustrating, very frustrating. Eight takes later, the guy couldn’t hit his mark and I got frustrated. I shouldn’t have but I did. I think I went out and punched the side of a trailer a couple times just to calm myself down. And I’m sure I’ve maddened people. Tom Wilkinson once called me mad. I think he found me very frustrating.”

Jonathan Rhys Meyers’ Analyzes His Character: Chris (Rhys Meyers) marries Chloe (Emily Mortimer) but lusts after Nola (Scarlett Johansson) in “Match Point.” Nola tells Chris the reason he can’t get his wife pregnant is because he doesn’t love her. Rhys Meyers believes that comment doesn’t accurately describe his character’s relationship with Mortimer’s. “I think you have to look at that from the perception of a slightly desperate character that Nola becomes during the course of the affair. There’s a slight sense of clutching at straws. Chris is always stalling and so there’s desperation in that also. You’ve got to think that she is the other woman. When she said, ‘You know the reason that you can’t get your f***ing wife pregnant is because you don’t f***ing love her. With me it’s love.’ That’s a very hurt woman. It’s sort of a way of speaking to somebody just trying to get through to them.”

Jonathan Rhys Meyers is a Gym Rat: He plays a tennis pro in “Match Point” and in real life, Rhys Meyers is athletic. “I’ve become a gym freak over the last year. I have been quite physical. I wanted to change my physicality as I got older to become less of a boy. I’m 28 years old now and I look a bit younger than my age. To get the roles that I want to get, the best roles for actors don’t really come until they’re 31-32, you’ve got to be a man before you play a man. So I thought in changing my physicality maybe would open a few more doors.”

Jonathan Rhys Meyers’ Next Project: “Mission Impossible 3:” Rhys Meyers isn’t allowed to talk about the upcoming Tom Cruise movie, “Mission Impossible 3.” He can’t even confirm or deny if his character is a bad guy. But asked about working on the action scenes, Rhys Meyers really opened up and provided a wealth of information.

“Most of the action stuff is left up to Tom because he’s bloody good at it. He’s probably one of the best stuntmen in the world, when you think about it. It definitely opened my eyes because my next film I have a lot of action.

I realized while I made ‘Alexander’ that if you’re able to do your stunts, there’s 25% more screen time than if you let a stuntman do it. It means an awful lot in the job to be able to do that. If you can’t do stunts, you do cut down the screen time of what you do. This is why every stunt that Tom Cruise is involved in, it’s Tom Cruise doing it. There are no stuntmen.

He’s probably the best in the world at what he does. He’s done things that I think are incredible, especially one thing while we were doing ‘Mission Impossible.’ He rolls off the Vatican wall, which is 75 feet in height. And he comes down face first with a wire on and stops two inches off the deck. We were all, because it was a vast production, we had a few different crews. We were just about to turn over when we heard this. The first AD and everybody thought he’d hit the floor and bounced back up. Of course he keeps saying, he’s like, ‘I’m fine, I’m fine.’ And everyone’s going over, ‘Are you okay, Tom?’ He’s like, ‘That was f***ing cool!’

I said to him afterwards, he was talking about the pendulum shot that he was going to do. ‘That was so f***ing cool.’ And I’m like, ‘Cool? I tell you what cool is for me: a John Wayne triple bill on TV. Swinging like Edgar Allen Poe’s pit and the pendulum over a tank of sharks or whatever it may be on that day is not cool to me. It’s veritable madness.’ But he’s very good at it. It’s because he works so hard in his life. He breaks free in adrenaline and he allows himself to be put into this situation and tests of mettle. It’s very admirable. I’m not sure it’s a quality I share, but I admire it in people."

Depressing fact of the day. Despite being around for what seems like several decades – didn’t he shoot Michael Collins, like, ages ago? – Jonathan Rhys Meyers is still only 28 years old.

I know a couple of women who ought to ashamed of themselves when I think what age he was during Gormenghast, and the kind of impure thoughts they were vocalising (and how) at the time. Anyways, watching his complicated, scheming anti-hero manouevre through the ranks of contemporary British gentry in Woody Allen’s Match Point, you suddenly realise that he’s only now really old enough to essay such a darkly romantic lead.

“It’s only now I’m ready either,” says the actor. “When I was younger I just craved success too much. People said that I was going places after Michael Collins, but I think if success had come at that point I would have destroyed myself. As it was, I got frustrated and really almost sabotaged my career and my life. But I’ve stopped worrying about it and settled down a bit. It’s a lot easier.”

Happily, Rhys Meyers seems to have made it through the impetuousness of youth and matured into a fine actor. Not that he was ever rubbish. Even in poorly recieved projects – I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, Velvet Goldmine or indeed, Gormenghast – he has frequently and justifiably earned lofty praise for his performances. Match Point, a Hitchcockian thriller with echoes of Plein Soliel however, provided his most challenging role to date.

“He’s not a typical Hollywood protagonist,” explains Jonathan. “He’s more like something from the film noir that Woody grew up with. As a leading man, he’s sort of like a Delon character. There’s something misogynistic and selfish about him, but at the same time you want him to be redeemed. You keep with him. The audience does have sympathy for him and perversely people will him to get away with terrible behaviour.”

While some actors have found Woody’s laissez-faire direction a little too vague, Jonathan was delighted with the set up.

“I wish I could tell you that I was sitting around writing a history for my character,” he laughs. “But if I tried to do that I’d just end up doodling monkeys. It was a very relaxed shoot. On the first day I went up to Woody and said, ‘I’m really nervous here. You’re Woody Allen.’ And he says, (adopts perfect Allen impersonation) ‘Listen, you’re 80% this character. If 20% of you shows up then we’re doing fine.’ It’s funny because I was doing a press conference for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and this real intellectual journalist started asking me about certain pauses and how brilliant they were. I was like, ‘Uh, if you say so - I don’t remember.’”

Of course, the fact that Match Point offered him an opportunity to romp in silk sheets with Emily Mortimer, then land in a cornfield with Scarlett Johansson in the rain didn’t make the shoot unpleasant either.

“It’s a really interesting thing,”says Jonathan. “There’s a totally different chemistry between myself and Scarlett and myself and Emily, and again, I wish I could tell you I put loads of thought into it, but it was really just the chemistry that was there. Scarlett was a 19-year-old single woman and Emily is married with a child. I couldn’t go chasing her.”

Certainly, Match Point seems to have been a less tumultuous experience than Oliver Stone’s Alexander, where Jonathan frequently clashed with the director. And then there was all that dick-waving wildman onset behaviour.

“I won’t lie to you. It was wild. It was mad. Oliver wanted an animalistic set. He wanted something raw and wild. It just didn’t translate to the screen in the end. I’ve had to stay dry since then in order to recover. I was teetotal until I was 25 so I have the capacity of a 14 year old girl. I’m vomiting in bushes after a drink. It was mad and it was very difficult because I idolised Oliver before and I think I just expected too much from him as a director and felt spurned when I didn’t get it.”

With Alexander well behind him, 2006 looks set to be a breakthrough for Jonathan. He’s already been touted for an Oscar for Match Point and in a few months we can catch him dashing about alongside Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 3.

“I’d love to say that an Oscar nomination would be meaningless but it would be fucking great,” he admits. “When I was nominated for the Emmy for playing Elvis, I thought, fantastic. I’m Elvis and I’m from Cork, like. But really what I’d like is for me, Cillian Murphy and Colin Farrell to all get nominated. Those guys are genuises.”