Jeremy Irons

Made films the shows talk about.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Reversal of Fortune (1990); Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995); Watchmen (2009); Margin Call (2011); Dead Ringers; Lolita (Adrian Lyne version).

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.

Dave Gibbons: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Watchmen (2009), which they acted in: Dave Gibbons ⇒ Watchmen (the host's read). Gibbons' same-size panels made the Watchmen comic a structural feat, which Snyder followed faithfully in the film.
    “and, you know, he was able to, uh, I mean, Dave Gibbons is one of the great comic book illustrators, but is a very low key sort of British style that all the panels in the book were the same size.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:06:11 · David Shoemaker (0.55 sure it was them)

Oliver Stone: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Margin Call (2011), which they acted in: Oliver Stone ⇒ Margin Call (the maker said so: Brian speaking about his own writing). Oliver Stone is as big an influence on Brian's dialogue as anybody but Mamet.
    “Oliver Stone's big an influence on the way that I write dialogue as anybody but Mammoth.”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:09:43 · Brian Koppelman (0.65 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Billions: 2 lines

  1. career (career) · through Margin Call (2011), which they acted in: Margin Call ⇒ Billions (the maker said so: Koppelman, Billions co-creator, on the show). Koppelman says Margin Call reaffirmed how he and Dave had thought about these people, and made a hedge-fund story make more sense than a bank story.
    “margin call may be reaffirmed that the way Dave and I thought about these people, as we'd met them, was pretty much like the way a lot of them are”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:21:18 · Brian Koppelman (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through Margin Call (2011), which they acted in: Margin Call ⇒ Billions (the maker said so: Koppelman, Billions co-creator, on the show). Koppelman says the borrowed lesson is that Margin Call does not speak down to the viewer.
    “this movie doesn't speak down to the viewer”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:21:59 · Brian Koppelman (0.90 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (9) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

craft (2)

  1. craft (craft): Jeremy Irons → Kevin Spacey. Russillo loves that Irons plays powerful as normal by asking to be explained to like a child, though he'd already decided.
    “he presents himself as the most normal, but he had clearly already made up his mind”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:13:19 · Ryen Russillo (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. craft (same role, different effect): James Mason → Jeremy Irons. Jeremy Irons reciting Humbert's lines is unbearably sad, where Mason is tragic and funny.
    “The 2nd you have him reciting that dialogue, you're just like, this is unbearably sad.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:21:11 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (cursed-men roles): Jeremy Irons → Dead Ringers. Irons is pictured as an actor who loves playing cursed men, citing Dead Ringers and Reversal of Fortune.
    “I'm in Dead Ringers, Reversal of Fortune, I love playing these cursed men and butterfly roles.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:21:11 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Jeremy Irons: Irons asks to be told the situation like to a child or golden retriever; Russillo calls it a power move that is a red flag.
    “I'm not here because I'm smart.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:12:53 · Ryen Russillo (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Jeremy Irons: Irons lists financial panics by year; Russillo likens it to NBA cyclical trades.
    “he just starts listing the years.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:18:55 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Jeremy Irons: Russillo jokes Irons hasn't eaten until the bell closes, with Simmons's post-2014 diet discipline.
    “He's got Simmons post 2014 discipline on the diet.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:20:27 · Ryen Russillo (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Jeremy Irons: Because of his schedule, all his scenes had to be crammed into three days, and Simmons thinks the haggard look helps.
    “they had to cram all of the scenes in the space of 3 days.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 0:31:20 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Jeremy Irons: His work visa needed U.S. senators; the credits thank the Jeremy Irons visa miracle team.
    “they actually thank the Jeremy Irons visa miracle team”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 1:12:33 · Bill Simmons (0.85 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Jeremy Irons: Eric Dale's bridge math is off by 10x; the real figure is millions of days.
    “He shortchanged himself by 10 times.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 1:13:01 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)