Barry Lyndon sights on Thackeray's 1844 "satirical picaresque about the fortune-hunting of an Irish rogue," "Barry Lyndon", the setting of which allowed Kubrick to take advantage of the copious period research he had done for the now-aborted "Napoleon". At the time, Kubrick merely announced that his next film would star Ryan O'Neal (deemed "a seemingly un-Kubricky choice of leading man") and Marisa Berenson, a former "Vogue" and "Time" magazine cover model, and be shot largely in Ireland. So heightened was the secrecy surrounding the film that "Even Berenson, when Kubrick first approached her, was told only that it was to be an
Simon Lyndon Simon Lyndon Simon Lyndon (born February 1971, in London) is an Australian actor and director who grew up in Fremantle, Western Australia. He is a WAAPA graduate. Lyndon played Jimmy Loughlin in "Chopper" with Eric Bana, for which he won an AFI award for Best Supporting Actor and a Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for best supporting actor. He received AFI nominations for Best Supporting Actor for "Blackrock" (as "Ricko") and Best actor in a telefeature or mini-series for his role in "My Brother Jack". Other films include "Fresh Air", "Sample People", "The Thin Red Line", "From the Outside"