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Pierce Brosnan has seemingly worked in every conceivable genre during his 47-year acting career, but Black Adam (out Friday) actually marks his first-ever superhero movie. It's always a pleasure to hear from this charming and prolific Irish actor, and here are 10 reasons we're such longtime fans.
1. He was a great TV detective.
Well, sort of detective, if we're being strictly accurate. In the hugely popular 1980s show Remington Steele, Brosnan starred as a former conman who is hired to pose as a private investigator by Laura Holt (Stephanie Zimbalist), a licensed P.I. who is struggling to win clients because she's a woman. The show ran for five seasons, but we never did find out the real name of Brosnan's character. He was only ever referred to as his detective alter ego, Remington Steele.

2. He also starred in one of the great family movies of the 1990s.
Namely, Mrs. Doubtfire. Brosnan doesn't exactly play a baddie in this much-loved movie, but he's definitely the romantic rival of Robin Williams' cross-dressing title character. Brosnan's Stu Dunmeyer is a slick and successful executive who begins dating Miranda Hillard (Sally Field), the estranged wife of Williams' Daniel Hillard. So when Daniel drags up as Mrs. Doubtfire, the barbs most certainly fly.

3. He'll always be James Bond, and he's gracious about it.
Brosnan's fourth and final outing as 007, Die Another Day, came out 20 years ago now. But, he knows that he'll always be associated with the franchise. "Bond is the gift that keeps giving and has allowed me to have a wonderful career," he told The Guardian in 2020. "Once you're branded as a Bond, it's with you forever, so you better make peace with it and you'd better understand that when you walk through those doors and pick up the mantle of playing James Bond."
4. He's a super-sharp dresser.
A case in point: the fabulous suit he just wore to Black Adam's London press junket.

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5. He's self-deprecating.
Brosnan knows what people thought of his rendition of 'SOS' in Mamma Mia!. But, he doesn't let it get to him. "That is a warhorse of a song. And to give it to a man who is not equipped with, ahem, a technique of singing, well, it was quite an effort," he told The Sunday Times. "One of my favorite reviews said, ‘Brosnan couldn't hold a note if it had the Queen's head on it.'"
6. He's also very honest.
When Brosnan began his acting career in the 1970s, he worked quite frequently in the theater. Then very quickly, he transitioned into becoming a (very accomplished) film and TV actor. Asked about returning to the stage in 2018, Brosnan told Esquire: "I feel very angry with myself that I don't have the balls to get out there and do it. You have to really want it. You have to really want it."
7. He's a talented painter.
Brosnan has his first major exhibition coming up next spring at the Seasons LA gallery. However, he told GQ recently that he has been painting since 1987, shortly after his first wife Cassandra Harris was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. (Tragically, she died of the disease four years later).
"It assuages the kind of solitary life that you lead as an actor making films – sitting in trailers, sitting in parking lots, sitting in fields," he added. "Up a mountain,  down a mountain. Waiting in the wings.  So I create studios wherever I go."
You can check out plenty of Brosnan's paintings from the 1980s to the present day over on his website.

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8. He's a very proud Irishman.
Though Brosnan moved with his family to the U.K. when he was 10, he has always emphasized his Irishness in interviews. You can watch him talking with palpable passion about his homeland below.

9. He's also a doting dad.
Brosnan's sons Dylan and Paris served as ambassadors at the Golden Globe Awards in 2020, something Pierce likened to actually winning an award from his point of view. Both Brosnan boys talk about being at film school in this red carpet interview, so maybe one day they'll get to work with their illustrious father?

10. And finally, he was recognized by Queen Elizabeth II: a real rarity for a non-Brit.
In 2003, he received an honorary OBE award for services to the British film industry. Because he isn't a British citizen, it isn't considered a full honor, but he's still entitled to use the letters "OBE" after his name. Brosnan told the BBC at the time that he was "touched" by the "unexpected" accolade.
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