Pierce Brosnan

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q81520: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: GoldenEye (1995); Dante's Peak (1997); The Thomas Crown Affair (1999); Mamma Mia! (2008); Black Adam (2022); Black Bag (2025); James Bond films; James Bond films (Pierce Brosnan era); James Bond series; The Thursday Murder Club; The World Is Not Enough.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

ABBA: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Mamma Mia! (2008), which they acted in: ABBA ⇒ Mamma Mia! (the host's read). The film is aesthetically and spiritually in tune with ABBA's incandescent, inescapable and stupid songs.
    “It is a film that is very, like aesthetically and spiritually in tune with its source material, being the, like, incandescent, inescapable, wonderful, and also really stupid songs of ABBA.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 0:52:57 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991): 1 line

  1. lineage (ripoff) · through Black Adam (2022), which they acted in: Terminator 2: Judgment Day ⇒ Black Adam (the host's read). The Black Adam kid is called a straight John Connor ripoff, down to the skateboard and the catchphrase coaching.
    “It is a straight up John Connor ripoff.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Doctor Sleep · 1:18:46 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Topkapi (1964): 1 line

  1. lineage (remake (unmade)) · through The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), which they acted in: Topkapi ⇒ The Thomas Crown Affair (the host's read). MGM tried to remake Topkapi as a sequel to the Brosnan Thomas Crown Affair, with Verhoeven.
    “Because wasn't Verhoven was going to remake Top Cappy as a sequel to Thomas Crown Affair.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 0:26:03 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

West Side Story (2021): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Mamma Mia! (2008), which they acted in: West Side Story ⇒ Mamma Mia! (the host's read). In Dancing Queen, Baranski and Streep's chiffon skirts allow one Jerome Robbins-style moment that echoes West Side Story.
    “they do like one Jerome Robbins, like, uh, sachet moment.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:17:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Christopher Nolan: 1 line

  1. people (people) · through The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), which they acted in: The Thomas Crown Affair ⇒ Christopher Nolan (the host's read). Speaker says Christopher Nolan loves the 1999 Thomas Crown Affair because of Tenet.
    “you know who loves the Thomas Crown affair in 1999, Christopher Nolan, because I've seen Tenet”
    The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 1:09:21 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Mamma Mia! (2008), which they acted in: Mamma Mia! ⇒ Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (the host's read). The sequel is both prequel and sequel, with Lily James as young Donna in Donna and the Dynamos.
    “can I tell you it's both a prequel and a sequel?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:35:44 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)

The Dark Knight (2008): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through James Bond series, which they acted in: James Bond series ⇒ The Dark Knight (the host's read). Nolan's Batman films are read as a commentary on Bond.
    “I think Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight movies are also a commentary on James Bond, if you look at them from one direction”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:46:41 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (12) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

people (2)

  1. people (people): Mamma Mia! → Pierce Brosnan. Brosnan, Firth and Skarsgard are icons in Ireland, England and Sweden, which the speaker offers as one reason the film was so huge in the UK.
    “you've got an Irish, English and Swedish, like kind of icon.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:07:41 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (cast): Black Bag → Pierce Brosnan. Pierce Brosnan's reveal was a bit transparent.
    “I don't know whether it was like the most naughty and thus satisfying plot-wise conclusion with respect to Pierce Brosnan”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:56:00 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Pierce Brosnan → GoldenEye. Brosnan was offered a Species part but had GoldenEye.
    “Pierce Brosnan was offered a part, but couldn't do it because he, um, had golden eye”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:08:29 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Pierce Brosnan: Brosnan's long residence near Hanalei on Kauai and a rumored $100 million Malibu property turned up in an Architectural Digest search.
    “he lived like outside Hanalay for like 25 years in on the north shore of Kauai”
    The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · 1:31:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)