just in case anyone needed a reminder in the wake of the hideously weird interview jeremy irons did about gay marriage, here’s some other seriously messed up things he’s said! also, a trigger warning for sexual statements about children most definitely applies here.

• “It is very difficult because children under 16 are immensely attractive. Any father will tell you.”
• he said his character in lolita wasn’t strictly a paedophile because he “knew that what he was doing was wrong”
• he complains about being made to feel “like a criminal” for putting his around on/around the shoulder of a schoolgirl he had jUST MET as she showed him around her school with the principal
• okay now this is the worst:
• “I remember when my son was 12 and he was like a god. He just went through that sort of golden time for about 18 months. I don’t have a daughter but they do the same.”
• he is just the biggest creep and wow nope one more
• “Parental love is sexual. Children practise on their parents. Girls will flirt outrageously with their fathers because they are practising. But we should know that that is practice. Boys will flirt outrageously with their mothers in a different way.”
• honestly what
• the fuck