London, England, Mar 30, 2016 / 15:37 pm
In a recent interview with British daily The Guardian, renowned actor Jeremy Irons voiced his opposition to easy divorce and to abortion, which he said is a sin and "harms a woman."
"Take abortion," he told The Guardian's Catherine Shoard in an interview published March 24. "I believe women should be allowed to make the decision, but I also think the church is right to say it's a sin. Because sin is actions that harm us. Lying harms us. Abortion harms a woman – it's a tremendous mental attack, and physical, sometimes. But we seem to get that muddled. In a way, thank God the Catholic church does say we won't allow it, because otherwise nobody's saying that it's a sin."
Irons, 67, has been acting on the stage and in film and television since 1969. His breakout role was as Charles Ryder in the 1981 miniseries Brideshead Revisited, and he voiced Scar in The Lion King.
He has won an Academy Award, a Tony, and an Emmy. He is currently cast as the lead in Eugene O'Neill's play Long Day's Journey into Night at the Bristol Old Vic.