Brosnan saw criminologist to perfect killer role
29/10/2005 - 11:26:03Pierce Brosnan called on "a high-ranking friend" at the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) to help him prepare to play a hitman in new film The Matador, because he did not want to research his role in a prison.
The former James Bond star sat down with a revered criminologist to get into the mind of callous killer Julian Noble.
He says: "I didn't want to go to a prison and hang out with a psychopath. I gave them (criminologist) the script and said: 'Try to distil the essence of who this man might be, his psychopathic tendencies.'
"So I approached it from that side, and then I approached it from a visual side."
