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16-12-02 news
Gabriel Byrne seeks political roles...

Irish actor Gabriel Byrne has admitted that political roles are top of his agenda and he would love to play the role of the former Irish Taoiseach Charlie Haughey.

"The Charlie Haughey story is about power, about sex, about loyalty, about friendship. It is about ethics and it is about history mortality and the fleeting and mercurial nature of the personal and the political."

He went on, "and at the center of that you have a charismatic cock of the walk. I have always said that the Charlie Haughey story would make a great movie. Cromwell is an amazing story too. I would love to play him. Charles Stuart Parnell's life is another great story about politics about a man brought down. He is a tragic hero. One of the architects of modern Ireland. I would not want to direct it. I'd love to play him in something."

The star also admitted that he may have made some good films and some bad ones but none were done on purpose.

"Everybody has been in bombs. I have never taken up a script and said this is a shit script. I am going to do it. Every script that I have done has been a good script and what happens between that and he end nobody can predict."

But, in the end the star admits he is an Irishman first and an actor second.

"I have always thought of myself as an actor who is from Dublin, who just happens to work in various places."

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