来自London Evening Standard.好像就是之前那个女记者发推说的那个电话访谈，内容包括小乔饰演Dracula的经历，sex scenes和最近的新动向~
Interview: Jonathan Rhys Meyers on vampires, sex scenes and playing the antihero
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标题：Interview: Jonathan Rhys Meyers on vampires, sex scenes and playing the antihero
副标题：The star of Dracula talks to Kathryn Bromwich about beards, lucky underpants, and why he would have made a terrible priest
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“If you could live forever, would you want to do it as an 89-year-old woman, or at the peak of your beauty and health?” The second option, clearly, is a tempting proposition. Jonathan Rhys Meyers, star of the new NBC series Dracula, has some ideas about why vampire tales still retain their lure after all these years. “Everybody’s interested in living forever. People don’t want to die. What makes vampires attractive is that they’re frozen in their young, beautiful state.”
Vampire fiction is a crowded market, as Rhys Meyers is well aware. Of the countless film and television vampire productions, he admires Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula, Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre and, more recently, Tomas Alfredson’s Let the Right One In. “I like the camera distance they keep from the actual killing. It makes it almost more vicious.”
So what does his new show bring to the table? We meet the titular bloodsucker Vlad Tepes lying half-decomposed in an open coffin in a filthy crypt. A human sacrifice is bled to death over him, and the blood brings Vlad back from the undead. Once reawakened he reinvents himself as an American industrialist called Alexander Grayson. With much fanfare, he arrives in London promising unlimited clean energy for everyone (it’s a fraud), and the Victorians lap it up – except for a shady group called Order of the Dragon. A spanner is thrown in the works when Vlad/Dracula/Grayson sees a beautiful young woman in the crowd (played by Jessica de Gouw): she looks just like his wife Ilona, who was brutally murdered by the Order centuries ago.
Essentially it’s a revenge tale, with technology, witty repartee and fangs thrown into the mix. Broadcast in the UK on Sky Living over the autumn, it received mixed reviews and variable ratings. Nevertheless, thanks to JRM’s devoted fan-base there is a ready-made core audience for any show that contains a steamy love scene with the piercing-eyed leading man.
And like in all good neck-biting vampire stories, sex scenes abound. Rhys Meyers has become quite a pro at them over the years: at one point, he says, “every day was a new naked girl, so it became run-of-the-mill that I would end up in bed with some actress during the afternoon.” What does he do to prepare for them – does he have a pair of lucky underpants? “I don’t have any lucky underpants. I’m never wearing underpants when I do those sex scenes. I’m always half naked. Sex scenes, first of all, are very easy to do, because you’re usually given somebody to work with who is (a) very beautiful and attractive, so that makes it much easier, do you know what I mean?”
He doesn’t quite get round to point (b).
Just another day at the office? “Well listen, you try it a few times. I’m telling you, you do two days of shooting sex scenes on a film set, you’ll be exhausted after it. You’ll get back to your partner, you won’t wanna touch them. You’ll be like, ‘I just wanna have a bath.’”
He bristles at my suggestion that there may be some links between the characters of Dracula and Henry VIII in The Tudors: both are powerful men driven by their desires, with a darker, obsessive side to them (blood for Dracula, a male heir for Henry). “No. There’s no connection, there’s no similarity at all.” In a physical sense, he’s right: while in the later seasons of The Tudors he had to don fat suits and ageing make-up, no such transformation was necessary to turn him into Dracula. The carefully-trimmed moustache and goatee he sports on the show are of his own choosing (“unfortunately I’m not very good at growing a beard. I’m hoping that in the next few years I’ll be blessed with a full beard”), and the vampire’s paleness echoes his own (“I haven’t been in the sunlight for… oh my goodness. Almost two years, now. I am literally vitamin D deficient at the moment.”).
But the similarity goes further than that. “People don’t really cast me as the hero very often. I think my physicality lends itself more to being seen as a character who’s got a little bit more duality than that. I don’t look like the cowboy riding in on a white horse with a white hat. I’m more like the one in the black cap skulking in the corner.”
His struggles with alcohol, rehab and airport altercations have been well documented over the years. Rhys Meyers is clean now, and spends his free time painting (“for my own pleasure – I’m a dreadful painter. I painted a Samurai for my godson the other day”) and making music with his brother’s band Suzy’s Field (“but I’m no musician”). However, he has intimate knowledge of his own darker sides, which he brings to the character’s more tortured, self-loathing aspects. “Blood is a drug. Nobody wants to be susceptible or dependent on a drug, do they?”
Although rumours abound, there is currently no news about whether a second season of Dracula is on the cards (“we’ve got lots of time to decide. It’s outside of my control, so I don’t even think about it”). Next, Rhys Meyers will be kept busy shooting two films. Later this month he will star in London Town, where plays a father who works two jobs to keep his family afloat in 1970s England.
Over the summer he will shoot The Secret Scripture in Ireland alongside Jessica Chastain. Based on a novel by Sebastian Barry, the film will see him as Father Gaunt, a sinister and ruthless priest who has a difficult relationship with women. In a way, this role is a return to his roots: Rhys Meyers had thought about joining the priesthood as a boy. “I felt I was quite isolated, and I think that’s what attracted me. The monastic lifestyle is very isolated. But actually I wasn’t suited to priesthood at all. It would have driven me mad.”

太激动了，还没看内容，先发个心情。

没什么惊喜。

这个女记者 唉……小乔最讨厌人家问HENRY VIII和性爱话题了 他都烦透了

哎，又是大段的英文！他自己都不想德古拉了，我还在一直替他想着！
周四要出远门，大概没办法上网看小乔的消息了。希望回来可以看到让我高兴的好消息！

今天外网就开始断章取义了

我相信这个标题是真的 他已经厌倦了屏幕上耍性感

哇。。。先一定要赞扬下大图片，大得好像真人在面前，好有质感地。接下来有点迷糊，在London Town中是演朋克歌手，还是打两份工的父亲呢？以我所见，演辛苦的父亲很能触犯我的泪点，更讨喜的角色。

就是就是啊，这两家报纸要不要先打一架，再来给个准信啊

记得以前一个电视访谈里，主持人问过小乔演床戏的感觉。。。
小乔说：就像是在家乐福大卖场里ML一样，周围一群人围观，完事以后你觉得自己很棒，其实大家看完就一哄而散了