Interview with RadioTimes

Patrick Dempsey opens up to RadioTimes.

In a recent interview, Patrick Dempsey talked about his role in Memory Of A Killer, James Bond and offered some insight on what it means to be a man.

About Memory Of A Killer

“I love the nonstop action because I love the physicality of it in the choreography, the physical training of working with this, I love that. That came to me really easily, although at my age, the recovery period was a little bit harder. It was the challenge of a man who has two distinctly different worlds and how they’re starting to collide, and then with the early onset dementia or Alzheimer’s, I found it to be a very complex, very interesting, unique story, the action as well as the family man and the disease, I found all of those things really appealing and challenging.”

About what it means to be a man

“I think it’s a very hard time to be a man right now, right? I think because of the #MeToo movement, what we’re seeing with the Epstein files, all of this stuff that there’s a toxicity to it, but yet there needs to be a masculinity as well. Our job is to protect our family, to provide, to be a gentleman, to be strong, to do all of these things, but at the same time, it’s important to show vulnerability, to admit that you have made a mistake, and it’s okay. I think that there are not very many role models like that, certainly not in government. There are in some of our athletes, some of our actors, although our politicians are struggling a bit right now and it’s a very hard period of time. To be a gentleman, what does that mean? We need to teach these values and there has to be some honour and dignity in that. And if you do make a mistake, you come forward and you admit that and there’s a strength in showing that.”