Today’s Bravura Television conversation, between the New Yorker staff writer Tad Friend and the actors Edie Falco, Jeremy Irons, William H. Macy, and Laura Dern, had a distinctly boisterous mood. Leading the charge was Irons, currently starring in the Showtime series “The Borgias,” who used the stage to grumble, in distinctly British fashion, about the following:
On commercial breaks: “As a viewer, I’m appalled by it. You’re trying to watch something and you keep being told to buy something…. I think it’s so rude.”
On American nannyism: “You can’t smoke within thirty-five foot of a doorway in this country, you can’t smoke in a park, you can’t touch a woman, you can’t even look a woman in the eyes, I don’t think—I’m not sure. And this is so unnatural. It’s a sort of terrible disease that’s swept across the world. At least on network television you can see people behaving badly and enjoying life and being normal and people touching your tits and you saying, ‘O.K., what’s that about?’ instead of saying, ‘I’m calling my lawyer.’ It’s real life, it’s life as I would like to live it.”
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