Jonathan Rhys Meyers and John Travolta seemed the best of pals when they walked the red carpet this week at the New York premiere of their new thriller, From Paris With Love.
According to OK! magazine, JRM said of his co-star:
“He’s an incredibly nice guy. Sometimes you’re shocked. I find the more successful –- the bigger stars that I work with, the nicer they are.”
Travolta was similarly enamored of the Tudors star.
““He’s the best,” he said of Jonny Boy. “He’s so talented and smart.”
The guys brought along their best gals, too.
Travolta’s wife, actress Kelly Preston, dished about some of the …read more

Tudors fans, you can expect to see a lot of Jonathan Rhys Meyers this week, as he makes the rounds to promote his new film From Paris With Love (co-starring John Travolta).
In this charming clip from Regis & Kathy Lee, Jonny Boy explains why he likes learning to ski (and the outfits that go with it) and chats about how his take on Henry VIII is different from other stars who’ve portrayed the historical tyrant. Enjoy!
The Tudors fourth and final season airs this spring.

In Season 3 of The Tudors, we saw  star Jonathan Rhys Meyers seem to become a more portly King Henry VIII by donning heavier robes, furs and ruffs.
Still, Jonny Boy couldn’t entirely hide that svelte, animal attitude we remember from Seasons 1 and 2.
For the series’ final season, Rhys Meyers consented to “some aging,” Liz Smith notes in her Variety column, but we’re guessing he’ll still bring plenty of sexy to Season 4, which debuts April 11.
Till then, you can re-live all the action from previous episodes on Sunday nights. Showtime will start airing all three seasons, two back-to-back episodes …read more

Count winter 2009 as an “on” moment in the on-again, off-again relationship between Tudors star Jonathan Rhys Meyers and his beauty-industry mogul girlfriend, Reena Hammer.
While rumors swirled that Hammer dropped Jonny Boy after his rough patch with drinking (and the arrest that followed), Reena recently said she’s standing by her man — and has been for some time.
“We have been together through everything in the past five years,” she told The Telegraph.
In fact, Hammer, who at 23 years old runs the creative arm of Urban Retreat, the beauty company founded by her father, said she’s considered getting hitched to her …read more

As The Tudors readies for its fourth and final season, star Jonathan Rhys Meyers has filled his slate with plenty of other projects.
The Irishman is getting ready for the premiere of From Paris with Love, a thriller set in France in which he co-stars with John Travolta.
The spy drama drops Feb. 5, according to Irish Central.
JRM also will begin production on another film with a Hollywood veteran attached. He’s set to appear opposite Kevin Bacon in Whole Lotta Sole.
In the comedy, he’ll play a thief who tries to rob a fish market and ends up taking Bacon’s character hostage, …read more

In his role as Henry VIII for three seasons on The Tudors, Jonathan Rhys Meyers has learned a lot about life in 16th-century England. When Henry wasn’t busy bedding comely lasses, he was famous for imbibing rich food and drink.
“If you look at the Tudor diet, I’m surprised anyone lasted longer than six months,” JRM told the Edmonton Sun (Season 3 of The Tudors recently premiered on Canadian TV).
For instance, take the royal recipe for poultry:
“They would take a chicken, tear the top off, giblets on the top, and they would take giblets from the bottom, they would …read more

A cool idea for your Friday, Tudors fans: What if your favorite tyrant king became a superhero?
MTV’s film bloggers tell us Sir Ian McKellan won’t be part of X-Men Origins: Magneto, even though he’s played the character in every installment of the franchise thus far.
Magneto needs to be recast, and MTV’s “Secret Identity” suggests five hot actors who could do the complex villain justice. Tudors’ star Jonathan Rhys Meyers made the list, thanks to his calculating turn as a gold-digging tennis pro in Woody Allen’s Match Point.
Even more telling, MTV’s Josh Wigler writes, is Meyers performance as King Henry VIII:
“He’s …read more

Showtime announced today that Joely Richardson will share the throne with Jonathan Rhys Meyers on the final season of The Tudors, having signed on to play Katherine Parr to his Henry VIII.
The Nip/Tuck actress reportedly beat out Gillian Anderson and several other A-listers for the part.
Richardson’s five seasons  Nip/Tuck have earned her two  Golden Globe nominations. The actress belongs to an English theatrical dynasty that includes her mother, Vanessa Redgrave, father, director Tony Richardson, aunt Lynn Redgrave and sister, the late Natasha Richardson. Her film credits include The Patriot, I’ll Do Anything, and most recently, the children’s fantasy film, …read more

Jonny Boy is back — on the set of The Tudors, that is.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers showed up on set this week in Ireland, following his arrest at a Paris airport on June 25. The actor had allegedly assaulted the staff at an airport bar when they tried to cut off his supply of booze.
Back at work, Rhys Meyers took time to hang out with a few young extras while filming Season 4, in which he’ll portray an older, if not wiser, King Henry VIII.
JRM will return to France in September to answer charges of “charges of “willful …read more

Well, Showtime Fans, could you have guessed his sobriety wouldn’t last? Tudors star Jonathan Rhys Meyers has been back in the tabloids of late.
This time he’s in the hot seat for allegedly assaulting a waiter at a bar in the Paris airport.
Jonny Boy had recently claimed he’d cleaned up after a third try at rehab, but it looks like moderation isn’t his style.
He also was arrested in 2007 after a drunk and disorderly episode at the Dublin airport (deja vu, anyone?).
In Paris, he reportedly punched a waiter in the face after the bar staff stopped serving him drinks while …read more