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The Guard interview w/ Brendan Gleeson

[BlackTree TV - Los Angeles] Brendan Gleeson on Sgt. Gerry Boyle: He's the last of the independents -- according to himself -- who has seen quite a lot of life, in the sense that not an awful lot has happened to him and he's had plenty of time to think about it. He's quite erudite and well-read. He listens to music and watches films, to quite a staggering degree, but you wouldn't know it from his general conversation, as he keeps it well hidden. He's a bit of a hard-bitten man, but as with a lot of cynics, there's an idealist hidden in there somewhere. His main flaws are that he's closed-up. He's a bit of a maverick and he does take the odd illegal substance -- just to try them out. He's quite stringent about integrity. He has a ferocious honesty and that does not allow him to consort with people who are fudging issues all over the place. But, at the same time, he's not a rigid stickler for the letter of the law, if it's nonsensical and not really in the human interest. He has no real time for it, which is a little bit of a disadvantage in a guardian of the peace. Or maybe not? BRENDAN GLEESON (Sgt. Gerry Boyle), a Dublin-born former teacher, left the profession to pursue a career in his first love, acting and joined the Irish theatre company Passion Machine. He landed his first starring role in I Went Down, which was followed by his much acclaimed role in John Boorman's The General. His performance gained him awards not only for Best Actor at the 1998 Boston Society of ...

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