In 2016, I made a one-hour radio documentary based on my interviews with Gabriel Byrne. They also form the basis of my eBook, Gabriel Byrne: The Joe Jackson Interviews Plus, which is available from all eBook outlets. The interviews with Gabriel were some of the earliest I did and were remarkable in terms of his honesty. He said after the first one, "that was the first totally honest, soul-searching interview I ever gave." And, looking back from 2021, I have to ask what other male sex symbol at the time - or even now - would have guts enough to agree with a feminist analysis of his films that might conclude that he, as, say, the quintessentially romantic hero, Byron, in Gothic, was "used to reduce females to the role of passive fantasists"? Many wouldn't even grasp the concept. Enjoy.
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