-Our next guest tonight is a Golden Globe-nominated actor
you know from his work on "The Wire" and "The Affair."
He stars opposite Keira Knightley in "Colette,"
which is in select theaters September 21st.
Let's take a look.
-You. You could write. -What?
-Those stories you told me of Saint-Sauveur last year.
-My school stories? -Yes.
That could be Willy's next novel.
Try it anyway. But try now. Start immediately.
Aim for four hours at a time. The wolves are at the door!
-Please welcome back to the show Dominic West, everyone!
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How are you? -Very well. How are you?
-I'm wonderful. It's great to see you.
I want to bring something up, because your character, Willy,
not a wonderful guy in the film.
Is that safe to say?
-Well, I would argue he's okay, but, yeah.
No, he locks her up and makes her write
and then steals all her writing and sells it for himself.
But other than that, he's a good guy.
-Yeah, and last time you were here, we were talking about
how the show runner for "The Affair" said
that your character, Noah --
You were wonderful playing that part.
And he's a huge ass [bleep] too.
-Yes.
I'm the go-to guy, I think. -Yeah.
-Is someone trying to tell me something?
-Do you have something -- Do you have anything coming up
where we might feel like -- -I do, yeah, I do.
See, this is what happens. I spend --
After "The Wire," I spent 10 years
trying not to play a drunk cop again.
Those are the only parts you get.
And then you play one ass [bleep],
and then you get all of them.
But, no, I've done -- I've just done --
I've finished shooting a thing for the BBC of "Les Misérables."
-Fantastic. -And I play Jean Valjean.
-Jean Valjean. There you go!
-A hero at last!
-You have very considerable facial hair in this film.
-Oh, God, yeah.
-And a fat suit.
-I had three fat suits. -Three fat suits?
-Yeah, I had the mini, the midi, and the maxi.
-Oh, wow. So we watched him --
I'm assuming -- He seems like a --
-All of them boiling-hot in the Budapest sun.
Every scene, I'm sweating and red like you just saw.
-And did you have any way to keep yourself cool?
-Yes, yes.
John C. Reilly, who just played --
Laurel and Hardy. He just played Oliver Hardy.
He said, "You got to get this little vest that you wear
which has pipes in it that you pump cold water."
So at the end of each take, I'd plug into this thing
that looked like a colostomy bag.
And I just -- And I'd get pumped with cold water and cool down.
It was just blissful.
-And, uh, you know, here's the real Willy.
And, obviously, you see this is not --
-He doesn't look that fat there. -That's a real -- What?
-He doesn't look so fat there. -You think they just --
They made you wear a fat suit for no reason?
Oh, my God. They were like,
"This guy is such an ass [bleep] in his movies.
Let's make him wear a fat suit."
Was it -- Did you enjoy having a thick, luscious beard?
-No. I mean, you know --
I'm in a film with Keira Knightley,
and we have a couple of intimate scenes,
but I can't get anywhere near her
because I got to get the fat suit.
And then finally we have --
Finally, we have a kiss, and I've got this walrus mustache
and a top hat, so I couldn't get near her.
I hated the mustache.
-I was about to say nothing is going right for you, except --
This is a true story.
Your wife is a descendant of Irish royalty?
-No, no. She's -- No.
Well, no, she's got a very romantic family,
which is for 700 years, they've lived in this place
called Glin Castle and they've been called the Knights of Glin.
-Okay. -They were created by
a Celtic and Normand mix of these three knights,
and they're the Black Knights of Glin.
-That sounds so Monty Python.
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-Yeah, it is. -But this is --
There's an actual castle involved in this.
-There's a castle, yeah. -Truly, it's inherited?
It's now been inherited? -No, she hasn't inherited it.
No, no, that was the problem.
She -- Her dad, unfortunately, when he died six years ago,
he was the last Knight of Glin.
He was the 29th.
And he had three daughters, so he had no heirs.
So the title died, and then the castle was put up for sale.
And my wife was distraught and despondent,
and the only way I could -- And I eventually thought,
"[Bleep] it.
Your relations have been shot out of cannons
and beaten off Cromwell to save this castle.
We've got to give it a go."
So we're trying to give it a go now.
We're going to open it for private rentals.
-You're going to make it a hotel? What is the plan?
-Not a hotel, yeah. I don't know.
We're going to open it up for private rentals.
-It seems like -- This is just like --
If you're, like, a small family,
you want to Airbnb for the weekend...
maybe you and a couple of college friends,
just ask Dominic about Airbnb'ing.
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-Come along. It's going to be great.
Meyers sort of family reunion. -Yeah.
-Any family reunions -- Go and see your roots in Ireland.
Or, when Trump got in, I remember lying awake thinking,
"Where are we going to go where we can be...
where we can be safe?"
And I thought, "We'll go to Glin," because we'll be safe.
It's used to fighting off -- -Well, we went to Ireland --
-But, actually, Trump's next door.
He's in Doonbeg, which is down the road.
-And he was going to go, and he canceled his trip, right?
He was going to go to Ireland.
-Yeah, I think they didn't welcome --
-Yeah. -They didn't...
They didn't make him feel so welcome.
-Or they did that Irish thing where they welcomed him
but it was really passive-aggressive.
And he saw right through it, and he's like,
"You're not happy I'm coming."
And there's a whiskey distillery on site?
-No. No, we've got -- I want to get a whiskey --
I've met this amazing woman who's across the river.
It's right on the River Shannon.
And she's the only independent whiskey bonder.
And she's got a farmyard full of these ancient whiskeys.
She's going to do a blend, and then she was telling me how
they used to float the barrels across the Shannon to Glin.
So we're going to float the barrels across.
I'm going to create this little shebeen
with a turf ceiling and a turf floor and a turf fire,
and we're going to have whiskey nights.
-Now, is this a thing where when I order the whiskey,
you float them across then, or are they already...?
'Cause I don't want to, like, wait an hour for my barrel.
-You have to go and get it. -Oh, you have to get it.
Just make sure you put all this in the Airbnb listing,
'cause its seems like a few more things than...
It's always so great to see you.
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