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Jeremy Irons and Sinéad Cusack (and son Samuel) at an unspecified event in London, 15 November 1978.

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Evening Standard, London (1974) / Evening Herald, Dublin (1974)

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New/old video of JEREMY IRONS and SINÉAD CUSACK at the premiere of The Man in the Iron Mask in Leicester Square, London, March 1998.

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Int.  Where did you meet Jeremy, and when? Sinéad.  Well, we met while I was doing London Assurance and he was doing Godspell. Int.  Oh, I see. Sinéad.  Because the Wyndham's Theatre and the Albery Theatre — there was one stage door for the two theatres and I met him at... Int.  At the stage door. Sinéad.  Well, not quite, I used to see him at the stage door, this tall figure, but I actually met him at a dinner party given by a mutual friend of ours... and it was instant. Int.  Ooh, one of those, eh? Sinéad.  [Laughing] One of those. Int.  He was splendid in Godspell, wasn't he? Sinéad.  [Excitedly] Oh, yes, he was wonderful! But unfortunately I met him... we started walking out together before I had seen the show, because I was doing London Assurance, so I couldn't... but one matinee — I would have been able to see three quarters of a matinee, so I decided to go without telling him. I was very worried about this visit to the theatre because I thought... say I discover he is a terrible actor, say I discover he is reeeaally, I mean, without possibility or hope as an actor — what will I do? Would that change my attitude to him? So I went to the theatre and I sat in the stalls, and I was sitting in an isle seat and I don’t know if you remember but John the Baptist, which was the character that Jeremy played, used to have this wonderfully dramatic entrance from the back of the theatre down the isle. So I was sitting crouched very small in my seat and I heard the back doors of the auditorium open, then the sound of a shofar horn being blown — I thought very weedily indeed, I though ‘that’s not very good’. Then I heard this voice and I thought ‘who’s that?’, I said ‘that can’t be Jeremy’, and this voice — it was a very nice voice, a very plesant voice, but it didn’t have any of Jeremy’s qualities and I thought ‘oh dear, the personality of the man doesn’t relate at all to his stage personality’, and as he went by I looked up and it wasn’t him at all. He was stuck in a traffic jam in Stratton and that was the only performance he missed in the entire time he played the show.

— Sinéad Cusack, from ‘Bob Holness’ Celebrity Interview’. Bob Holness’ 1987 interviews with both Sinéad and Jeremy are available at this link (x).

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Evening Press, 28 March 1978.

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KILCOE CASTLE, Co. Cork, Ireland Home to Sinéad Cusack and Jeremy Irons

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Jeremy Irons and Sinéad Cusack attending a Bee Gees concert in London, 1989

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NELLY: I could always spend the night at your place.  (She stares boldly across the table at him. HORVÁTH looks back at her, confused but tempted.) HORVÁTH: That’s right, you could.

SINÉAD CUSACK and JEREMY IRONS as Nelly Mann and Ödön von Horváth in TALES FROM HOLLYWOOD (1992) dir. Howard Davies

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And he thinks he would quite like to have another child. Sinéad, he says looking very pleased, has told him she's willing. One of the nicest stories I've read about him concerns the birth of his second child, upon which he reportedly lit candles, put on Mozart and climbed into bed with Sinéad, Sam and the newly swaddled Max drinking Champagne toasts. This is such a nice story I don't believe it, so I ask if it's true. "I don't think it was Mozart," he says, adding that he distinctly remembers putting the dog on the bed.

— Mirabella magazine, 1993

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Jeremy Irons and Sinéad Cusack at Madrid Barajas airport in 2019

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I think I've just seen a photo of Jer wearing a slytherin face mask?????

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SINÉAD CUSACK and JEREMY IRONS at the Los Angeles International Airport heading for New York, march 1994.

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Posso aggiungere qualcosa? Questi sono dei grandi attori. Eppure, io ho il demone di pensare che ogni volta riesco a rubargli qualcosa, al di là di quello che loro sanno di volermi dare.

[Can I add something? These are great actors. And yet, I think I can always steal from them beyond what they know they want to give me.]

Bernardo Bertolucci talking about Jeremy Irons and Sinéad Cusack at the premiere of their film Stealing Beauty, 1996.

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‘Cusack and Irons haven't acted together much since Wild Oats. They have their reasons.

CUSACK: He used to yawn in the middle of my love scenes in The Rover. As I'd be delivering my heartbreaking speeches, he would go [she offers an exaggerated yawn]. IRONS: Ohhh. CUSACK: It's true! IRONS: You've got your wife there, doing this bor-r-ring long speech—. CUSACK: I beg your pardon. IRONS: It was. CUSACK: If he's bored, he's bored, and he shows it. IRONS: It wasn't much of a yawn. CUSACK: [Laughs] A massive one! Anyway, you can imagine. I mean, if an actor yawns at you in rehearsal while you're doing a love speech to him— no actor worth his salt would ever do it in the first place. If the man happens to be your husband and he yawns in your face, then there is room for argument there. IRONS: [Barely objecting] Ohhh. CUSACK: And all the time we were playing, you never ever said, "That was a great show." IRONS: I did! On occasion, I did. I really did. CUSACK: Maybe twice— in nine months. IRONS: [Nods] Well, it didn't happen often. [He looks at Sinéad. Sinéad is not amused].’

— GQ interview, 1991

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Jeremy Irons in conversation at the Alan Howard Fundation, march 2018

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