New/Old Photos Of Max Irons with His Parents Jeremy Irons & Sinead Cusack (2006)

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Belfast Telegraph: Max Irons: Parents Are Annoying

Max Irons listens to audio books if he has trouble sleeping.

The British actor is the son of fellow thespian Jeremy Irons and Irish actress Sinéad Cusack. But despite coming from acting royalty, the 29-year-old isn't keen on preparing for his roles with his folks.
"It's a bit like when your parents give you driving lessons," he laughed to the American edition of Harper's Bazaar. "You know they're right, and they have wisdom to impart, but nonetheless it's inexplicably irritating."
Max has starred in a number of films including The Riot Club and Woman in Gold.
Despite his reluctance to rehearse with his family, he did appreciate their point of view when he told them he wanted to follow in their footsteps.

"They didn't persuade or encourage. They gave me an honest appraisal of what it is to be an actor," he recalled. "They said it is a very unpredictable life of discombobulation; you can find yourself in different parts of the world, not knowing what you're doing next, and it takes a toll on the family. It involves rejection and instability. But they said, as long as I really wanted it, they would back off and let me do it my way. And they did, which I am grateful for."

With such a hectic professional life, it can be hard for Max to chill out. Thankfully he has one technique that he uses that comes from his school days.

"At night, I have this thing, because I used to get very home sick when I started boarding school - my parents used to send me tape recordings of them reading books, and I'd get one every couple of days. Now, if I can't sleep I will listen to audio books. Very unsexy," he admitted.
His genre of choice is The Cold War, but he does often tune into a comedy book too.


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Max Irons
Ostensible Claim to Fame: He's an up-and-coming British actor currently starring in The Riot Club and The Woman in Gold.
Real Claim to Fame: He's Jeremy Irons's hot son!
Sexiness Rating: Four out of five Redmaynes.
Representative Daily Mail Headline: "My name has opened doors — and slammed doors shut": The world according to Max Irons
Instagram Followers: None, since he doesn't do social media. "I find it distracting," he told BBC America. "I find it stressful." (The image above is from a fan account.)
Obligatory Quote About Nepotism: "Nepotism is despised in England, which is a very good thing. I think something to do with the class system. People really look down on nepotism. So yeah, it never really works in your favor — even in this industry."
Was His Dad Hot Back in the Day? Dashing!


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Observer: Max Irons is Not Living in His Father’s Shadow

There’s no way to put this without sounding creepy: But we’ve been eyeing Max Irons, 29, playing peekaboo with the son of Academy Award-winning actor Jeremy Irons and actress Sinéad Cusack over the years; catching him smiling shyly above the collar of a Burberry trench. It was hard to ignore the handsome son one of the few actors who can turn a New York Magazine profile into a Fifty Shades compendium in a single look. “At 62, he still possesses a liquid-eyed hotness,” wrote Jada Yuan in 2011, with what one imagines as a serious flush in her cheeks. “Jeremy Irons is just so Jeremy Irons—that is to say, the man of flesh is very much the man of your fantasies.”

That’s a hard standard to live up to, but the younger Mr. Irons is no slouch. Despite not speaking a word of German, he’ll be playing Austrian Holocaust survivor Fredrick “Fritz” Altmann in The Woman in Gold (starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds and currently in theaters), before co-starring in The Riot Club, a hotly anticipated thriller about a fictional, hedonistic Oxford club. (This besides his turn on Starz’ White Queen last year.) We sat down at The Smith—the Lower East Side one—because, though Mr. Irons has lived here for several years now, he still couldn’t remember the name of his first choice, a West Side diner that was kitschy cool.

We didn’t mind. With a wide fedora and long winter coat, before asking if we could do something “cheeky” and smoke a cigarette, he was most certainly his father’s son.

What were your early memories of New York?

It was all about FAO Schwartz. It was like every year, I’d need to go. We lived on the wrong side of the Hudson. (Shakes head, in gloomy voice:)
“The wrong side of the Hudson….”
Well we were there for about nine months when I was really young, and I’ve been coming to New York City as long as I can remember. I Iived uptown, then downtown, then in the West Village. Now I’ve been in Union Square for just about two years.

Above a Whole Foods?

Actually, above a nightclub. The kind where they serve Jägerbombs.

The best of American customs.

You hear fights all night long. Last week, a guy in a suit comes in and fights with the bouncer—“I work for Morgan Stanley! I make more in a week than you do in a…”

Well, the bouncer just picked him up and threw him in a big pile of trash.

Unfortunately, I think it’s being made clear that for professional reasons, I need to move back to London. Which is upsetting, because every time I cross the bridge here, I’m filled with joy. But it turns out there are much, much fewer opportunities to be an actor [in theater] here than back in London.

What are you most excited about right now?

Professionally: The Riot Club. It’s based on this real club, The Billingtons Club. It’s based on this real club, The Billingtons Club. It’s basically a club that stands for hedonism, elitism, success, wealth, sexism, chauvinism, and the occasional homophobia and racism. It wasn’t really nice things to be associated with. And it was attended by three of the most powerful people in British politics. There was this misunderstanding in Britain that the Upper Classes were all sort of fluffy and harmless. And that’s dangerous. These guys aren’t Downton Abbey. These guys were Masters of the Universes. The people who held the keys, who were handed all this wealth because of feudalism and basically organized slavery.

People have come up and [told] me on the street, “How dare you make a film so anti establishment.”

Is that really the sentiment in Britain? That these political figures or institutions are untouchable?

Among the elite, certainly. But among the majority, there is feeling that, for instance, that the riots we had a couple years ago, that was mainly the poor, working class, mainly black kids living on these estates–that are really like projects, and the state of the education system in them, you can really fall behind–and these kids, I believe, were collectively and subconsciously reacting to the lack of opportunity in their lives. Yeah, they smashed a few windows and stole a few TVs. But I don’t believe they did it out of opportunism. I believe they did it as symptomatic of something else.

This is an awkward thing … so we’re going to just stick to one question about your father, Jeremy Irons.

Go ahead…

What was it like growing up with Scar as a father?

Oh, that was a high moment. I was exactly the right age when I saw The Lion King, like eight. And afterward I gave an interview, and I think the line they used was when I said “Fuck Mufasa!”

                                      

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