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Jeremy Irons plays F. Scott Fitzgerald in Showtime's `Last Call'.(Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service)

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From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 20020531
Author:Lee, Luaine

PASADENA, Calif. _ Acting never gets easier, says Jeremy Irons. "If it feels easy, I feel I'm doing something wrong," says the star of such projects as "The French Lieutenant's Woman," "The Mission," "Reversal of Fortune" and TV's memorable "Brideshead Revisited."

"In films there's maybe only five or six scenes in each film that really need proper acting," he says. "The rest is behavior. But it's always a question of making choices _ for a writer or actor every sentence can be said in a different way. So all the time we're making choices, and that's what makes the writer we ...

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