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Jeremy Irons walks back anti-abortion, gay marriage comments at Berlin Film Festival
Jeremy Irons is clarifying his stance on issues ranging from abortion to gay marriage.
The 71-year-old actor is serving as competition jury president at the Berlin International Movie Festival, which kicked off Thursday. "The Artist" actor Bérénice Bejo and "Manchester by the Sea" director/writer Kenneth Lonergan are among jury members.
According to Variety and Deadline, at a urge conference kicking off Berlinale, the "Watchman" star began by confronting comments from his past, many of which resurfaced in the lead up to the festival.
“Let me make my views this morning entirely clear on these particular subjects once and for all,” Irons told journalists. “Firstly, I support wholeheartedly the global movement to address the inequality of women’s rights, and to protect them from abusive, damaging, and disrespectful harassment, both at home and in the workplace.
"Secondly, I applaud the legislation of same-sex marriage, wherever it has been attained, and I wish that such enlightened legislation will continue to spread into more and m
AcademyAwardwinning actor Jeremy Irons said Wednesday that while he doesn't have much of a strong opinion either way on same-sex marriage, he believes it poses interesting questions, including whether allowing same-sex marriage would open the door for interfamilial relationships.
"Could a father not marry his son?" Irons asked HuffPost Inhabit host Josh Zepps. Irons argued that "it's not incest between men" because "incest is there to protect us from inbreeding, but men don't breed," and wondered whether queer marriage might allow fathers to pass on their estates to their sons without being taxed.
"It seems to me that now they're fighting for the name," Irons said of advocates for same-sex marriage as opposed to civil unions. "I worry that it means somehow we debase, or we alter, what marriage is. I just worry about that."
Irons reiterated that he "[doesn't] have a strong feeling either way" on queer marriage, and said that he "[wishes] everybody who's living with one other person the best of luck in the planet, because it's fantastic."
"Living with another animal, whether it be a husband or a dog, is great," he said. "It's attractive to have someone to love. I don't
Max Irons Covers Out, Reacts to Dad Jeremy Irons' Controversial Comments About Lgbtq+ Marriage and ''Incest''
Max Irons is the latest celebrity to cover Out magazine.
In addition to posing for some hunky pics for the new issue, the 29-year-old actor also opened up about the controversial comments his dad Jeremy Irons made about same-sex attracted marriage and incest advocate in April 2013.
"I think of thinking, 'You don't recognize what you're talking about,'" Max says of his father, who previously said "Could a father not marry his son?" when asked about legalizing gay marriage. "You're thinking through a problem out noisy. I know my father, and his views are similar to mine: As long as you don't harm anyone else, what you do and who you love are nobody's business. He has since clarified as far as I understand, and fact be told, if you pushed him to clarify what he was talking about, I don't ponder he'd actually know."
For the record, Jeremy did clarify his comments later on, saying, "I think male lover marriage is wonderful. I think any reason that holds anybody together in a relationship
Jeremy Irons Worries Gay Marriage Will Encourage Incest
Jeremy Irons says he doesn't really have a "strong feeling" about whether queer marriage should be legalized-but he seems to acquire an argument against it.
In a recent interview with Huffington Post Reside, Irons spoke slowly and deliberately as he wondered whether legalizing gay marriage would encourage incest.
"Could a father not wed his son?" asked the Oscar winner, 64, who argued that as it stands, incest only exists to protect society from inbreeding, and "men don't breed." Plus, he said, "If I wanted to pass on my estate without death duties, I could marry my son and pass on my estate to him."
And like others who possess expressed concern over doable social ramifications of legalizing gay marriage, Irons, who said he doesn't "have a strong feeling either way," isn't sure how it will effect the institution of marriage as a whole.
"I agonize that it means somehow we debase or transform what marriage is," he says. "It seems to me that they're fighting for the name."
Still, regardless of what happens, the star of Showtime's "The Borgias" wishes everyone in domestic partnerships well.
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