(18 May 2023)
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1. Pierce Brosnan looking through sketches that he made throughout his "Black Adam" script
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Pierce Brosnan, actor:
"So many dreams" is a love story. It's a love story of women who have influenced my life and my children and the art form that I make as an actor. ... And then around 1987, I started painting."
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STILL: Pierce Brosnan with wife, Cassandra Harris (AP Photo/ Colin Crawford)
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Pierce Brosnan, actor:
"My late wife was... We were stricken with cancer, ovarian cancer. And that's a very... any ailment, a sickness like that creates a real rift and fracture in your heart and psyche. And one night I got up and I just started painting. I started painting with my fingers."
4. Medium of Brosnan chatting about "Cassie"
5. Tight shot of "Cassie"
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Pierce Brosnan, actor:
"And so I would paint well, while she would recover from chemotherapy, and I set up a studio. And so it was born out of that, that love, that life."
7. Wide of Brosnan chatting over a wall of drawings
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Pierce Brosnan, actor:
"Yes, I mean these wall of drawings over here. They definitely are an inner exploration. They're automatic drawings. They all come from phone calls."
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9. Pierce Brosnan with wife Keely Shaye Brosnan
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10. Tight shot of Brosnan's drawings
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Pierce Brosnan, actor:
"My wife, Keely, bought these pads that sit by the phone with her initials, my initials and soon as I'm on a phone call or I'm doing business and I have a morning of calls, the pad is there and the drawings just happen. They just show themselves so they have a mystery."
12. Wide of Brosnan chatting over drawings
13. Tight shot of a collection of painted drawings
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Pierce Brosnan, actor:
"They do come out of a period of pain and mourning. And I went to the canvas to explore that dark rage, that kind of fractured pain that I had. But the color came out. And so the color balanced whatever that inner life was."
15. Wide of gallery
16. Wide of gallery
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Pierce Brosnan, actor:
"They're biographical and the intention. You know, I tried to write the memoirs and it's so boring. It's just having to dig into the head and the heart and the memory of life. And so these paintings definitely have a history of who I was, where I was when I was. And they have an evolution from the kind of crude gesture back in '87, but to a stylized form now."
18. Tight of "Self Fish" "They're biographical and the intention - you know, I tried to write the memoirs and it's so boring.
19. Tight of "Julian"
20. Medium of "Night Marcher"
21. Medium of a collection of painted drawings
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