Jeremy Irons, Globalized Villain: How One Man’s Velvet Voice Became the Soundtrack to Worldwide Decay
Jeremy Irons: the last of the gentleman villains, now globe-trotting in the twilight of the monocled misanthrope, has become an unlikely barometer for how the world prefers its decay—slow, articulate, and wrapped in cashmere. From the marbled corridors of Brideshead to the fluorescent purgatory of the International Criminal Court in The Hague (Netflix’s upcoming limited…