character. This whole other persona has been intro-
duced to him, and he's spellbound. He's now his dad
and his superhero.
Brosnan: What Dylan really loves are motorcars. He
came to the Bond set one day. The setting was the bad
guy's hideout, and the bad guy has all these Ferraris
and Lamborghinis. Dylan sees Dad run through 500
Koreans and bullets and bombs with six cameras
rolling and helicopters exploding, Dad jumping onto
a hovercraft and punching the bad guy out. I look
across the set, see my son and think, "This is fantas-
tic, my boy is here". I do my best James Bond imper-
sonation, run across the set, don't trip, don't get
blown up. I say, "What did you think of that, Dylan?
Did you like that?" He looks at me and says, "Dad, are
the cars all right? Can we go see the cars?"
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Corr.: A lot of Pierce's films are full of actresses running
around in bikinis, Keely. Is that difficult for you?
Smith: Dylan wants to know about that. "Why are the
bad girls chasing my dad? Why does Dad kiss those
girls?" All I can say is, "He comes home to me."
Corr.: And that's enough for you?
Smith: It's what he does for a living.
Brosnan: And it's just acting. Great acting!
Corr.: Do you plan to do another Bond movie?
Brosnan: They have said the role is mine as long as I want it.
I'd love to do another. It's a wonderful security in life.
Corr.: So you still long for security? Most people would
think a star like you wouldn't have to worry about that.
Brosnan: I make very good money and enjoy it, but I've
been out-of-pocket many times and ready to put up
the For Sale sign. And it doesn't seem that long ago
that I was struggling. And I have a family, a young
family, an all-size-and-shape family. I'm 49 and 50 is
around the corner.
Corr.: What about your latest project, Evelyn?
Brosnan: Evelyn is a true story about a man named
Desmond Doyle, set in Dublin in 1953, the year I was
born. Evelyn's dad, Doyle, was left with the kids; the
mother left. And, as did happen in those dark days of
the '50s in Ireland, the church and state came in and
took Evelyn and the two boys away. Evelyn went into
a convent, and the boys went into an industrial
school. Desmond fought tooth and nail to get them
back, took his case to the Supreme Court and won. It's
a kind of David and Goliath story.
Corr.: Were you drawn to the project because of parallels
to your own story?
Brosnan: I was drawn to it because I'm a father, not
because of what my childhood was about. Having grown
up in Ireland, I have had firsthand experience dealing
with the Christian Brothers, the nuns at the convent,
that whole Irishness. But for me, it was a story of a sin-
gle father fighting a good fight for his kids.
Corr.: What are your own personal goals as a father?
Brosnan: I just want to be there for my children, because
my dad wasn't there for me. And if I'm not there in
body, then in phone messages or in letters. I want my
children to have love in their life when they're young,
to know the true meaning of love.
Corr.: We all strive to be the parent that we didn't have,
don't we? Not to discard what our parents did...
Brosnan: Well, I can discard what my father did, because
he did nothing. Let's not even go back to what he did
or didn't do. I have a great father-stepfather - in
William Carmichael. When I was becoming an actor,
I thought of taking the name Carmichael but some-
how hung with Brosnan. Bill Carmichael is my dad.
Corr.: After Cassie died, did you expect to marry again
and have a new family?