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Byline: Maggie Bullock
Other actors are always asking me how to break into the business. I've no idea-I never had to do it," says Jonathan Rhys Meyers somewhat sheepishly. Not a lament on the lips of most rising stars, perhaps, but just the sort of thing you might expect from a 27-year-old Irishman who, after being discovered in a Dublin pool hall at seventeen, has gone on to a series of enviable roles-all without a single acting lesson.
At nineteen, he put his alabaster-smooth, almost tender beauty and fierce attitude to work as Brian Slade, the omnisexual glam rocker of Todd Haynes's Velvet Goldmine. Besides garnering him a cult following, Goldmine set Rhys Meyers up for a string of similarly ...