Jeremy Irons refut anti-gay accatns - NZ Herald

Contents:

• JEREMY IRONS WALKS BACK ANTI-ABORTN, GAY MARRIAGE MENTS AT BERL FILM FTIVAL
• JEREMY IRONS RPONDS TO GAY MARRIAGE CONTROVERSY AFTER HUFFPOST LIVE REMARKS
• JEREMY IRONS BACKTRACKS ON GAY MARRIAGE MENTS
• MAX IRONS COVERS OUT, REACTS TO DAD JEREMY IRONS' CONTROVERSIAL COMMENTS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE AND ''INCT''
• Q&A: JEREMY IRONS ON THE BIAS, THE POPE, AND GAY MARRIAGE
• JEREMY IRONS REFUT ANTI-GAY ACCATNS
• JEREMY IRONS ON GAY MARRIAGE: “COULD A FATHER NOT MARRY HIS SON?”
• JEREMY IRONS CONMNS HIS OLD COMMENTS ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ABORTNTHE ACTOR OPENED THE JURY PRS NFERENCE FOR THIS YEAR’S BERLALE BY DISTANCG HIMSELF OM HIS OWN PAST REMARKS, STATEMENTS CLUDG THAT ABORTN IS A “S” AND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ULD “BASE” MARAL LAW.BY YOHANA DTAFEBARY 20, 2020BY MATTHIAS NAREYEK/GETTY.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEJEREMY IRONS OPENED THE BERLALE JURY PRS NFERENCE BY TURNG THE SPOTLIGHT ON HIMSELF—AND DISAVOWG HIS OWN PAST NTROVERSIAL REMARKS ABOUT ABORTN, WOMEN’S RIGHTS, AND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. THE ACTOR, WHO IS SERVG AS PRINT OF THE JURY FOR THE GERMAN FILM FTIVAL, WAS ATTEMPTG TO GET AHEAD OF QUTNS THAT MAY DOG HIM OVER THE URSE OF THE 10-DAY EVENT. A HANDFUL OF GERMAN OUTLETS DREDGED UP HIS PAST REMARKS WHEN HE WAS ANNOUNCED AS THIS YEAR’S JURY PRINT, CRICIZG HIS OLD-FASHNED AND, SOME S, OFFENSIVE STATEMENTS.“LET ME MAKE MY VIEWS ENTIRELY CLEAR ON THE PARTICULAR SUBJECTS ONCE AND FOR ALL,” IRONS SAID AT THE START OF THE NFERENCE, PRR TO RECEIVG ANY QUTNS OM JOURNALISTS, ACRDG TO DEADLE. “FIRSTLY, I SUPPORT WHOLEHEARTEDLY THE GLOBAL MOVEMENT TO ADDRS THE EQUALY OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS AND TO PROTECT THEM OM ABIVE, DAMAGG AND DISRPECTFUL HARASSMENT BOTH AT HOME AND WORKPLACE.”HE WAS PERHAPS REFERRG TO REMARKS HE MA A 2011 TERVIEW WH RAD TIM, WHICH IRONS SAID POLIL RRECTNS HAD “GONE TOO FAR” AND THAT SOME WOMEN N HANDLE UNWANTED TOUCH OM MEN. “MOST PEOPLE ARE ROBT. IF A MAN PUTS HIS HAND ON A WOMAN’S BOTTOM, ANY WOMAN WORTH HER SALT N AL WH ,” HE SAID THEN. “IT’S MUNITN. CAN’T WE BE IENDLY?”IRONS ALSO DREW FIRE FOR SIGNG A PETN SUPPORT OF ROMAN POLANSKI 2009; THE POLARIZG DIRECTOR PLEAD GUILTY TO UNLAWFUL SEX WH A MOR 1977, FLED THE U.S. AND HAS EVAD EXTRADN.AT THE PRSER, IRONS DID NOT REFER SPECIFILLY TO THE NTROVERSIAL MOV—BUT HE DID DIRECTLY ADDRS HIS PAST REMARKS ABOUT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. (IN A 2013 TERVIEW, THE ACTOR SAID THAT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ULD “BASE WHAT MARRIAGE IS.” HE WALKED BACK HIS STATEMENTS A LATER TERVIEW, SAYG “GAY MARRIAGE IS WONRFUL.”)“SENDLY, I APPLD THE LEGISLATN OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, WHEREVER HAS BEEN ATTAED,” IRONS TOLD THE BERLALE CROWD. “I HOPE THAT SUCH ENLIGHTENED LEGISLATN WILL NTUE TO SPREAD TO MORE AND MORE SOCIETI.”IRONS ALSO SAID HE SUPPORTS “WHOLEHEARTEDLY THE RIGHT OF WOMEN TO HAVE AN ABORTN SHOULD THEY SO CI.” IN A 2016 TERVIEW, THE ACTOR WAS QUOTED SAYG THAT “WOMEN SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO MAKE THE CISN, BUT I ALSO THK THE CHURCH IS RIGHT TO SAY ’S A S. BEE S IS ACTNS THAT HARM . LYG HARMS . ABORTN HARMS A WOMAN.”IRONS CLOSED HIS REMARKS BY SAYG THOSE THREE ISSU MARK “SENTIAL STEPS TOWARDS A CIVILIZED AND HUMANE SOCIETY FOR WHICH WE SHOULD ALL NTUE TO STRIVE. THERE ARE MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD WHERE THE RIGHTS DO NOT YET EXIST, WHERE SUCH WAYS OF LIVG LEAD TO IMPRISONMENT AND EVEN TO ATH.”HE NTUED, SAYG HE HOP SOME OF THE FILMS THE FTIVAL LP “WILL ADDRS THE PROBLEMS. I LOOK FORWARD TO WATCHG FILMS THIS YEAR’S BERLALE WHICH WILL PROVOKE TO QUTN ATTUS, PREJUDIC AND WORLDWI PERCEPTNS OF LIFE AS WE KNOW . I HOPE THAT’S PUT MY PAST MENTS TO BED. NOW LET GET ON WH TEN DAYS OF ENQUIRY AND CELEBRATN.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— WHY EMEM PERFORMED “LOSE YOURSELF” AT THE 2020 OSRS— THE CROWN ANNOUNC S NEW QUEEN ELIZABETH II—AND NFIRMS S LAST SEASON— LEGENDARY OSR WNER LEE GRANT ON THE BLACKLIST, SEX, SEXISM, AND THE TREATMENT OF RENéE ZELLWEGER— HANGG WH BILL MURRAY ON THE SET OF GHOSTBTERS: AFTERLIFE— INSI THE 2020 VANY FAIR OSR PARTY— THERE’S A BLANK SPACE AT THE CENTER OF TAYLOR SWIFT’S MISS AMERINA— FROM THE ARCHIVE: HOW DIRECTOR BONG JOON HO’S PARASE MARCHED TOWARD OSR NIGHT—AND CHANGED EVERYTHG ALONG THE WAYLOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HOLLYWOOD NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.MARK SELIGER’S 2020 VANY FAIR OSR PARTY PORTRAS1 / 56CHEVRONCHEVRONPHOTOGRAPH BY MARK SELIGER.BONG JOON HOMOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHBILL MAHER BEEFS WH “PREACHY, MAN-HATG” BARBIE MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHJAMIE LEE CURTIS DIGS HERSELF OUT OF COMMENTS ABOUT SAG-AFTRA STRIKEBY EVE BATEYYOHANA DTA

JEREMY IRONS WALKS BACK ANTI-ABORTN, GAY MARRIAGE MENTS AT BERL FILM FTIVAL

Jeremy Irons is clarifyg his stance on issu rangg om abortn to gay 71-year-old actor is servg as petn jury print at the Berl Internatnal Film Ftival, which kicked off Thursday.

JEREMY IRONS RPONDS TO GAY MARRIAGE CONTROVERSY AFTER HUFFPOST LIVE REMARKS

" Weeks later he reversed urse, tellg the BBC “gay marriage is wonrful. Actor Jeremy Irons sound off on the ntroversy that ensued after his gay marriage remarks a HuffPost Live terview earlier this week.

The 64-year-old stage and screen veteran posted a letter which appeared on the webse, llg the media's implitn that he is anti-gay "as far om the tth of me as to say that I believe the earth is flat. "Callg the argument "mischievo, " but "nohels valid, " Irons add: "I am clearly aware that many gay relatnships are more long term, rponsible and even healthier their role of raisg children, than their hetero equivalents, and that love often creat the sire to mark self a formal way, as Marriage would do.

On April 3, Irons told HuffPost Live host Josh Zepps that he didn't have much of a strong opn eher way on same-sex qutns, but wonred whether allowg lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) upl to tie the knot would enurage terfaial unns. " Among those to cricize Irons' remarks was Stephen Colbert, who joked, "So, if gay marriage is legalized England, Jeremy Irons' son Max: Get ready to make your father the happit man alive.

JEREMY IRONS BACKTRACKS ON GAY MARRIAGE MENTS

"Before You GoGay Marriage In The Uned StatPopular the CommunyYou May Like. Is Jeremy Irons Gay?

Jeremy Irons has a straight sexual orientatn; th, not a gay neher has he been mored to be one. Jeremy Irons has backtracked over his ntroversial ment that legalisg gay marriage might lead to fathers marryg their sons to avoid herance Osr-wng actor told BBC terviewer Stephen Sackur he wished he had "buttoned my lip" before discsg the issue an terview wh the Huffgton Post. "I thk gay marriage is wonrful.

MAX IRONS COVERS OUT, REACTS TO DAD JEREMY IRONS' CONTROVERSIAL COMMENTS ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE AND ''INCT''

"Irons also said durg the terview that he had no strong views eher way on gay marriage, but his ments neverthels ed ntroversy. In addn to posg for some hunky pics for the new issue, the 29-year-old actor also opened up about the ntroversial ments his dad Jeremy Irons ma about gay marriage and ct back April 2013.

"For the rerd, Jeremy did clarify his ments later on, sayg, "I thk gay marriage is wonrful. And of urse, there were the extemporaneo remarks about gay marriage ma durg a recent terview wh the Huffgton Post. It's a huge shame, bee often people who have really lived and are amazg people n be brought down by a past It seems like the last Pope might have been gay, and his assistant might have been his lover or his pann.

Q&A: JEREMY IRONS ON THE BIAS, THE POPE, AND GAY MARRIAGE

Bee I thk so many of make mistak and are actually good people but get on the wrong si of the system, and God help Let me preface this qutn by lettg you know I'm not gog to ask you to elaborate or fend what you said about gay marriage the Huffgton Post terview. To me didn't seem that you had an anti-gay marriage agenda or that was g om a bad place, but was somethg you jt thought of the moment. I thk the suatn Ameri is different om England, where we have civil partnership, and now the vote on gay marriage has been rried, and whether will go through Parliament I don't know.

JEREMY IRONS REFUT ANTI-GAY ACCATNS

I thk everybody should have the chance to be happy, and to feel secure wh relatnships, and perhaps gay marriage is the way that if you're gay that n happen. I no way nigrate any sectn of society at all, and perhaps gay marriage is the way should go.

JEREMY IRONS ON GAY MARRIAGE: “COULD A FATHER NOT MARRY HIS SON?”

One of Jeremy Irons' landmark rol was playg Charl Ryr the 1981 ITV mi-seri adaptatn of Evelyn Wgh's Brishead Revised, a novel about the nfed, unrequed romance between straight Ryr and his gay bt iend, Sebastian.

It is a wonrful book and the mi-seri stands the tt of time -- or did until Irons troduced the shadow of his most recent role, that of the backward, seemgly homophobic se you're not followg the story, Jeremy Irons whipped up ntroversy by tellg the Huffgton Post earlier this month that while he don't have "strong feelgs" on same-sex marriage, he fears extendg rights will "base" the stutn. "I thk everybody should have the chance to be happy, and to feel secure wh relatnships, and perhaps gay marriage is the way that if you're gay that n happen. One group, New York-based news group Gay USA, remas so angry that 's anizg a prott at this eveng's screeng of Irons', "Trashed, " at the Energy for Tomorrow Conference beg sponsored by The New York Tim.

JEREMY IRONS CONMNS HIS OLD COMMENTS ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, ABORTNTHE ACTOR OPENED THE JURY PRS NFERENCE FOR THIS YEAR’S BERLALE BY DISTANCG HIMSELF OM HIS OWN PAST REMARKS, STATEMENTS CLUDG THAT ABORTN IS A “S” AND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ULD “BASE” MARAL LAW.BY YOHANA DTAFEBARY 20, 2020BY MATTHIAS NAREYEK/GETTY.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEJEREMY IRONS OPENED THE BERLALE JURY PRS NFERENCE BY TURNG THE SPOTLIGHT ON HIMSELF—AND DISAVOWG HIS OWN PAST NTROVERSIAL REMARKS ABOUT ABORTN, WOMEN’S RIGHTS, AND SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. THE ACTOR, WHO IS SERVG AS PRINT OF THE JURY FOR THE GERMAN FILM FTIVAL, WAS ATTEMPTG TO GET AHEAD OF QUTNS THAT MAY DOG HIM OVER THE URSE OF THE 10-DAY EVENT. A HANDFUL OF GERMAN OUTLETS DREDGED UP HIS PAST REMARKS WHEN HE WAS ANNOUNCED AS THIS YEAR’S JURY PRINT, CRICIZG HIS OLD-FASHNED AND, SOME S, OFFENSIVE STATEMENTS.“LET ME MAKE MY VIEWS ENTIRELY CLEAR ON THE PARTICULAR SUBJECTS ONCE AND FOR ALL,” IRONS SAID AT THE START OF THE NFERENCE, PRR TO RECEIVG ANY QUTNS OM JOURNALISTS, ACRDG TO DEADLE. “FIRSTLY, I SUPPORT WHOLEHEARTEDLY THE GLOBAL MOVEMENT TO ADDRS THE EQUALY OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS AND TO PROTECT THEM OM ABIVE, DAMAGG AND DISRPECTFUL HARASSMENT BOTH AT HOME AND WORKPLACE.”HE WAS PERHAPS REFERRG TO REMARKS HE MA A 2011 TERVIEW WH RAD TIM, WHICH IRONS SAID POLIL RRECTNS HAD “GONE TOO FAR” AND THAT SOME WOMEN N HANDLE UNWANTED TOUCH OM MEN. “MOST PEOPLE ARE ROBT. IF A MAN PUTS HIS HAND ON A WOMAN’S BOTTOM, ANY WOMAN WORTH HER SALT N AL WH ,” HE SAID THEN. “IT’S MUNITN. CAN’T WE BE IENDLY?”IRONS ALSO DREW FIRE FOR SIGNG A PETN SUPPORT OF ROMAN POLANSKI 2009; THE POLARIZG DIRECTOR PLEAD GUILTY TO UNLAWFUL SEX WH A MOR 1977, FLED THE U.S. AND HAS EVAD EXTRADN.AT THE PRSER, IRONS DID NOT REFER SPECIFILLY TO THE NTROVERSIAL MOV—BUT HE DID DIRECTLY ADDRS HIS PAST REMARKS ABOUT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. (IN A 2013 TERVIEW, THE ACTOR SAID THAT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE ULD “BASE WHAT MARRIAGE IS.” HE WALKED BACK HIS STATEMENTS A LATER TERVIEW, SAYG “GAY MARRIAGE IS WONRFUL.”)“SENDLY, I APPLD THE LEGISLATN OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, WHEREVER HAS BEEN ATTAED,” IRONS TOLD THE BERLALE CROWD. “I HOPE THAT SUCH ENLIGHTENED LEGISLATN WILL NTUE TO SPREAD TO MORE AND MORE SOCIETI.”IRONS ALSO SAID HE SUPPORTS “WHOLEHEARTEDLY THE RIGHT OF WOMEN TO HAVE AN ABORTN SHOULD THEY SO CI.” IN A 2016 TERVIEW, THE ACTOR WAS QUOTED SAYG THAT “WOMEN SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO MAKE THE CISN, BUT I ALSO THK THE CHURCH IS RIGHT TO SAY ’S A S. BEE S IS ACTNS THAT HARM . LYG HARMS . ABORTN HARMS A WOMAN.”IRONS CLOSED HIS REMARKS BY SAYG THOSE THREE ISSU MARK “SENTIAL STEPS TOWARDS A CIVILIZED AND HUMANE SOCIETY FOR WHICH WE SHOULD ALL NTUE TO STRIVE. THERE ARE MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD WHERE THE RIGHTS DO NOT YET EXIST, WHERE SUCH WAYS OF LIVG LEAD TO IMPRISONMENT AND EVEN TO ATH.”HE NTUED, SAYG HE HOP SOME OF THE FILMS THE FTIVAL LP “WILL ADDRS THE PROBLEMS. I LOOK FORWARD TO WATCHG FILMS THIS YEAR’S BERLALE WHICH WILL PROVOKE TO QUTN ATTUS, PREJUDIC AND WORLDWI PERCEPTNS OF LIFE AS WE KNOW . I HOPE THAT’S PUT MY PAST MENTS TO BED. NOW LET GET ON WH TEN DAYS OF ENQUIRY AND CELEBRATN.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— WHY EMEM PERFORMED “LOSE YOURSELF” AT THE 2020 OSRS— THE CROWN ANNOUNC S NEW QUEEN ELIZABETH II—AND NFIRMS S LAST SEASON— LEGENDARY OSR WNER LEE GRANT ON THE BLACKLIST, SEX, SEXISM, AND THE TREATMENT OF RENéE ZELLWEGER— HANGG WH BILL MURRAY ON THE SET OF GHOSTBTERS: AFTERLIFE— INSI THE 2020 VANY FAIR OSR PARTY— THERE’S A BLANK SPACE AT THE CENTER OF TAYLOR SWIFT’S MISS AMERINA— FROM THE ARCHIVE: HOW DIRECTOR BONG JOON HO’S PARASE MARCHED TOWARD OSR NIGHT—AND CHANGED EVERYTHG ALONG THE WAYLOOKG FOR MORE? SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY HOLLYWOOD NEWSLETTER AND NEVER MISS A STORY.MARK SELIGER’S 2020 VANY FAIR OSR PARTY PORTRAS1 / 56CHEVRONCHEVRONPHOTOGRAPH BY MARK SELIGER.BONG JOON HOMOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHBILL MAHER BEEFS WH “PREACHY, MAN-HATG” BARBIE MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHJAMIE LEE CURTIS DIGS HERSELF OUT OF COMMENTS ABOUT SAG-AFTRA STRIKEBY EVE BATEYYOHANA DTA

"[Irons] has unrmed his credibily and his right to be taken serly through bigoted and offensive statements qutng, " Gay USA said a statement. Here he is tryg to te the world on a very real environmental crisis and he nnot take ten mut to talk to one of his gay iends and get ted on a val human rights issue such as marriage equaly?