Jeremy Irons on "The Borgias"

New Showtime series The Borgias, the drama of the scandalous 15th Century papal family. Jeremy Irons plays Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI was. Research on his character was as difficult as the search today for impartial journalism.

"When you find out the newspapers over the last 10 years trying, what kind of person George Bush to read, you have to read many different things," said Irons. "I wonder if FOX or the New Statesman or anyone else, it is written, there are different opinions. The same goes for my character, Rodrigo Borgia. What kind of guy he was? You need to read a lot of different people and say," Well, they would have said that because ... "or" that's their view. "They are trying to filter through all this to find the heart of the character. This is the only way I know how."

A great rival Cardinal Rodrigo Della Rovere (Colm Feore) is. Irons sees Obama vs. McCain. "A bit like these two, like two people trying to get the same job. I think that's the crux of the problem among themselves. And it has been received.
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