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.

After work on The Tudors’ third season wrapped, the series’ pouty star, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, took off from Ireland, where much of The Tudors is filmed, and joined John Travolta in France for their upcoming buddy action flick, From Paris With Love.
Here are a few on-set photos from the movie, co-written by Luc Besson and directed by Pierre Morel. Filmed in Poissy, near Paris, From Paris with Love sees JRM ditching his Tudors doublets as a young embassy employee and Travolta going bald to play a badass American spy with a devil-may-care attitude.
As buddy movie formula dictates, Jonny Boy gets …read more

Maybe Jonathan Rhys Meyers canceled his talk show appearances for Children of Huang Shi because his agent realized how bad the reviews would be. The movie opened on the coasts this weekend and critics had few good words to say. Take a gander:
Entertainment Weekly
Gives the film a D. “A lot of emotions look good on Jonathan Rhys Meyers’ sneery, overripe features, but compassion isn’t one of them. … (The movie is) like Schindler’s List crossed with The Sound of Music, and Roger Spottiswoode directs it in a stiff, lifeless, utterly dated style of international squareness.
The Village Voice
Gives its review …read more

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Last week it looked like Jonathan Rhys Meyers planned to make the rounds on the talk show circuit to promote his new movie, The Children of Huang Shi. But now The Tudors star has been removed from the guest lists for Ellen, Conan and Regis & Kelly, reports JRMfansite.
Jonny did sit for an interview with the New York Daily News to promote The Children of Huang Shi, about a British journalist who in the 1930s travels to China seeking fame but instead gets caught up in the …read more