Speaking in a new interview, Pierce Brosnan has said there would be ‘no point in getting angry’ (Picture: AP)
Pierce Brosnan has declared he doesn’t get angry.
The GoldenEye actor, 69, who has used painting to channel his grief over the cancer deaths of his first wife Cassie and daughter Charlotte, said he also meditates to keep himself balanced.
‘I don’t get angry. I could get angry – but where would that anger go? There would be no point,’ he said in a new interview.
The actor was left devastated when his first wife Cassandra Harris, who he married in 1980, died 13 days after her 43rd birthday after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer – the same disease that killed her mum.
She had three children – Charlotte and Christopher, by Dermot Harris, the brother of actor Richard Harris – before she married Pierce, and then son Sean with the 007 actor.
Pierce adopted Charlotte and Christopher and was again left heartbroken when Charlotte also died from ovarian cancer in 2013 aged 42.
The actor was left devastated when his first wife Cassandra Harris, who he married in 1980, died 13 days after her 43rd birthday (Picture: EPA)
The Irish-born actor has been married to his second wife Keely Shaye Smith, 59, since 2001 (Picture: Getty)
The Irish-born actor has been married to his second wife Keely Shaye Smith, 59, since 2001.
Taking part in Closer USA’s 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Me segment, doting dad Pierce also said meditation is key to a ‘quiet the mind’ and opened up about his love of the ocean.
‘Water has always been a part of my joy and existence. I have fond memories of the seaside,’ he shared.
‘So when I dropped into America in the 1980s, there was only one place to be – and that was on the coast. LA just didn’t hold the same magic for me as the Malibu coastline.’
Pierce said despite his huge acting success, he grew up wanting to be a painter and revealed he left school at 16 with ‘nothing but a cardboard folder of drawings and painting’.
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‘I managed to get a job, and I wanted to be a graphic artist. But I discovered acting three years into working and that was it, the tide turned,’ the A-lister added.
Metro.co.uk has reached out to Pierce’s reps for comment.
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