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Jared Harris recalled the time his father - legendary Limerick actor Richard Harris – used to bring him around Limerick and once offered him $400 to break a vase in their home with a football.
Harris was a guest on The Late Late Show to promote his new film Reawakening, which features in the Dublin International Film Festival. Naturally, host Patrick Kielty was keen to ask him about his father, the late Richard Harris.
He asked Jared about his time in Limerick, given that his father was a proud citizen of that city by the Shannon.
"In the beginning we went back a lot," Jared recalled. "And then it stopped. I realised it coincided with his mother dying, my parents getting divorced, and his career taking off. And we didn't go back for a long time.
"It wasn’t until my mother went into PR for hotels, and she was given the contract to look after Dromoland Castle, and we used to get back there for Christmas every year. The last ten years of his life.
"He reintroduced us to the city and took us on these mad pub crawls around the city, where he’d show us the history of the Famine, and point out these buildings, [saying] 'Once upon a time this family owned this . . . This is where I went to school . . . This is where I had my first kiss . . . and a lot of other [stuff]."
Without beating around the bush, Kielty described Richard Harris as "someone who lived it to the full . . . what was that like?"
"He really enjoyed the anarchy that children bring," Jared told him. "He had three sons so there was a lot of anarchy.And we were encouraged just to enjoy ourselves."
Explaining that his mother knew that there needed to be boundaries, Jared recalled: "One time we arrived at the house in the Bahamas. We’d been on this long flight and we’d been pent up, and we started kicking this football around in the house.
"His then second wife tried to stop his doing it because we were going to break stuff and she turned around and said, ‘You could’ve gotten $200 for that vase’ and dad said, ‘If you break the other one I’ll give you $400. And if you do it with your head I’ll give you five.’"
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