‘CHAMBERLAIN WAS A DIFFERENT PERSON TO WHO YOU THINK’
Jeremy Irons is leaning back in a chair in a Soho hotel in central London, looking healthy, tanned and brilliantly turned out. His tweed jacket and trousers are just so, and he’s wearing the most wonderful statement red leather ankle boots. He uses his gravitas and swagger to unlikely effect in his latest role, starring as former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in new film Munich: The Edge of War – and both the actor and novelist Robert Harris, who wrote the original novel, agree the film should play a part in resurrecting the former PM’s reputation.
“We are with a revolutionary here!” grins Irons, gesturing at Harris.
“I love Robert’s work. Because I love reassessing, seeing clearly from a different point of view, a historical character and a historical situation. I didn’t know a lot about the Munich Agreement – I just knew about the ‘piece of paper’ and I knew about the
