THE ARRIVAL OF THE THINKING WOMAN'S SEX SYMBOL
by The editors, Glamour
March 1, 1984
Jeremy Irons, thirty-five, plays sophisticated, literary men. This month he stars as French aristocrat Swann, the tormented lover in the French film "Swann In Love," based on the work of Marcel Proust. In the movie "Betrayal" and the play "The Real Thing," the characters he plays have passionate affairs with their friends' wives. The actor is so charmingly upright -- who would suspect? His perfect English accent, debonair flair, exact manners and dazzling way with words are seductive. Inside there's a yearning that's part of his appeal. "I can play strength with vulnerability; heterosexual actors who can do that are rare," he has said. As you would expect, Irons thinks sex symbols are "pretty mindless objects." But, "If I am to be anybody's, I think probably I would prefer to be the thinking woman's because it's always better to think about it."