Actor Brendan Gleeson revealed he was told he was “too old and too fat” to make it in Hollywood.
The Dubliner, 67, began his career as an English and Irish teacher and it was only aged 35 that his wife Mary encouraged him to pursue his acting dream. But Gleeson reveals he soon hit a major stumbling block with a US agent.
He told him he was “too old and too fat” to make it in the big league, to which Emmy-winning Gleeson replied: “See you down the road.” The father-of-four told the Sunday Independent: “I wasn’t going to be brow-beaten by that guy at 38.”
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Gleeson made his film debut in 1990’s The Field and five years later starred in Braveheart.
Five years later, he made an impact internationally as Hamish Campbell in Mel Gibson’s Oscar winner “Braveheart.” I wasn’t going to be brow-beaten by that guy at 38.”
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