Colm Feore (Della Rovere)

Colm Feore (Boston, 22 agosto 1958) è un attore statunitense.

Feore è nato a Boston, Massachussets, da genitori irlandesi che hanno vissuto in Irlanda per diversi anni, durante i primi anni di vita di Feore. La famiglia si trasferì a Windsor, Ontario, dove è cresciuto Feore.

Dopo la laura al Ridley College di St.Catharines, Ontario, ha frequentato la Scuola Nazionale di Teatro del Canada a Montreal, Quebec, e l'Università di Windsor, nell'Ontario. Feore con la sua seconda moglie, la coreografa Donna Feore, e i loro tre figli, Jack, Tom e Anna, vivono a Stratford, nell'Ontario. Ha un figlio dal suo primo matrimonio (Jack).

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For beloved U.S. born, Canada-based actor Colm Feore, flying out to Budapest to don the holy robes of real-life religious figure Cardinal della Rovere in the second season of Neil Jordan’s hit cable series The Borgias is just business as usual, though it’s a glorious business indeed.

Feore — one of our most respected and admired performers — is used to essaying melodramatic roles that require layers of costuming, from his turns in Shakespeare on the Stratford stage, to his roles as heavily made-up heavies in blockbusters like Chronicles of Riddick and Thor. But with The Borgias, there’s an extra dimension to the dark drama and intrigue: sex.

“I think Neil got all the exposition and setup out of the way in the first season,” admits the actor. “Now we can focus on the juicy stuff, the killing ... and, of course, the screwing.”


The?Borgias charts the steeped-in-fact saga of the controversial, near mythical Renaissance Italian family, led by Rodrigo Borgia (Jeremy Irons) who, after he becomes Pope Alexandre VI, leads his brood into all manner of power mad, political and yes, lethal and lurid, misadventures.

For those not caught up to speed on the series (which airs on both Bravo! And CTV in Canada), the complete, uncut season one hits DVD on Aug. 30, the perfect primer for the even more visceral second go around which is scheduled to air later this year.

“The family keep trying to kill me in this season,” Feore says of his character, the chief adversary of Pope Alexandre/ Rodrigo Borgia.

“So I’m trying to stay out of trouble but also trying to get rid of Borgia. I’ve tried to bring in the French army and other forces but he’s bought ‘em all off, he owns the place, so I have to resort to more extreme measures. I’m the bin Laden of the piece, if you will, and it’s all great fun.”

Colm Feore seems to be having a little too much fun. You can almost hear the bubbles of ebullience popping over the phone from Budapest, Hungary, where he is shooting the next bloody season of The Borgias.

Feore plays Giuliano della Rovere, who would rise to become the "Warrior Pope" Julius II, in the Gemini-winning Canadian co-production. Feore says it's a good gig that "beats a real job because the guy is kind of crazy" but in his case, his entire oeuvre speaks to the myriad manifestations of the human condition.

"Whining would be disagreeable. Today was a good day. I got to ride a beautiful horse across the Hungarian countryside cresting the hills past Buda in 26-degree glorious sunshine... I also made lunch for the entire production in the hopes of sucking up enough to get back to Canada for a break," he says.

Feore is one of the most respected character actors on the industry's virtual Rolodex these days, and his recent turns as both a burgeoning Pope in The Borgias, as well as a prosthetics-laden appearance as the leader of giants in the blockbuster Thor prove the Canadian talent has all the professional properties of a shapeshifter.

"I love this job, I love acting, because you get to focus on things that are interesting and then, if you are lucky, talk about them. I think sometimes, it's more a question of just showing up. And I keep showing up."

From playing pianist/genius Glenn Gould to prime minister Pierre Trudeau, Feore says he sometimes feels he's played every Shakespeare part worth playing, but it's never a question of burn out or repetition because the human experience is universal. The more work you do, the more you can pull on for the next part. Even a role like one he played in Thor, as King Laufey, was a product of everything he's done in the past.

"I've immersed myself in everything from Darwin to Christianity. I get to study things that I probably would have glossed over," he says with palpable excitement. "There are probably going to be questions with something like The Borgias, so I've got stacks of books... by Richard Dawkins, to a Bible, or two, The Power and Secrets of the Jesuits."

Feore says he recently scouted Budapest for bona fide Latin mass services so he could brush up on the details, since Neil Jordan has scripted one for the second season debut.

"There I was with the host and the wafers. You have to get that stuff right. People will blog about it if you get it wrong."

The work always has its own rewards, he says. You just have to be willing to look for the silver lining.

"When I was shooting Thor, I flew back and forth between L.A. and Budapest, to the point where I wanted a t-shirt that said Thorgias. But going back and forth to L.A. and Budapest and suddenly you realize it's all the same stuff. Me and Antony Hopkins and Ken Branagh were talking about the same fundamental human questions because our shorthand for talking about Thor was Shakespeare. The three of us were talking, is this Hamlet? No. Is this Claudius? No. It's Winter's Tale," he says.

"One is always grateful to be hired, but at my age, I go ahead and say go ahead, fire me. Make my day. Let me go home to my family. They actually like me," he says with an arid deadpan.

"Maybe I'm slightly jaded, but I told Branagh that he really screwed me with Thor by casting Hopkins because I was planning on playing him like Tony Hopkins. I got to play his little brother in Titus. You know, I've got this whole thing down. And then I said, OK, you're shooting me first - so I'll play it like Tony Hopkins, then he'll be (screwed)."

Feore laughs but there is a seriousness about him.

"Within the ridiculous confines of production - where you have 250-300 people standing around costing money - it has to happen instantly. So how do you find a way to bring the depth and solemnity and gravitas of the human experience? You come ridiculously prepared. And with this, I come with a truck load of baggage. I've done all the work to play Hamlet and Iago and that is in every single frame of what I do."

Feore says he felt the importance of all that research when he looked at a scene Jordan had written that was only six lines long. "The scene looks short, only six lines, but the questions are forever. The idea is that if you bring all your experience and curiosity and respect for the game itself you get closer to something."

Feore says Branagh found a way to bring more to every piece of Thor as a result of his years of experience as well.

"Branagh got Hopkins to perform to the point where the entire crew clapped. And the crew never claps. Never," says Feore. "They're having coffee, they turn on the machine, they turn off the machine, they've seen it, they've done it, they have the T-shirt. But when these guys are captured by a moment of real humanity, they recognize it. And if you can wake up the crew, you are onto something. And Branagh tried to do that with every single scene."

Feore, joking, says the studio probably just got confused between the meaning of classic and classical when they hired Branagh, but it did bring an amazing depth to the comic book universe of a Norse god stuck on Earth without his hammer.

"A compelling story is a compelling story, and all the stories we have are old. What Branagh did is put all these ancient stories together in a way that was so elegant and simple in a way that has yet to be matched, but the ideas are old and fundamental: The more we know about the universe and the more we know about what really is going on in a quantum physics way, the more meaning we can derive from the past," he says.

"Generations of us have been trying to answer these questions, and sometimes, they get some of this right."

Thor hits DVD and Blu-ray Tuesday, The Borgias airs on CBC this fall.

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