Because a knife was found on someone in the local coffee shop tonight, this story has relevance today, let’s run with it as actor Jeremy Irons talks about what happens when power corrupts. Intriguing stuff.
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First though, read this story to give Jeremy’s story some context… about dealing with power systems, their tastes and preferences. Fiction based on history of human nature.
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“It was a time quite unlike the time we live in today,” Irons sets the scene for Borgias, “There were murders in Rome every night, poisonings most weekends. There was incest here and sodomy there. Life was very violent, very visceral. Life was cheap. Torture was commonplace. People carried swords, daggers, poison rings.”
He found Rodrigo, a married man with many mistresses, and a schemer of the highest order, to be an enigmatic, riveting figure.
“You can’t play someone like that and think, ‘I’m a bad person.’ Most of the time I thought I was quite a good guy. Read the rest of this entry »
