Richard Dreyfuss discusses Marie Fleming’s right-to-die campaign on Ireland AM.

Tuesday 25th, 16:59pm

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IMMEDIATE: Tuesday 25th February, 2014.

Richard Dreyfuss discusses Marie Fleming’sright-to-die campaign on Ireland AM.

Dreyfuss thinks that legal leaders interfering with Marie Fleming’s decision to leave this planet is a ‘disgusting interference’.

Dreyfuss opensup about the passing of late Phillip Seymour Hoffman

Ireland AM airs Monday to Friday from 7am – 10.45am on TV3.

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Mark Cagney caught up with Academy Award winning actor Richard Dreyfuss to discuss his latest film ‘Cas & Dylan’, which he was promoting at the Jameson International Film Festival last week. The interview aired on Ireland AM this morning (Tuesday 25th February).

Referring to another film ‘Who’s Life is it Anyway?’ that Dreyfuss starred in, in 1981, about an artist who is paralysed from his neck and wants to die, Mark raises the high profile right-to-die subject made topical in Ireland by the late Marie Fleming. Dreyfuss states that: “there are things that lack common sense and the idea that you have a tribunal of legal leaders who think that they have the moral authority to interfere with a woman’s [Marie Fleming’s] decision to leave this planet under her own two feet is a disgusting interference.”

Dreyfuss opens up to Mark about how he feels about the sudden and shocking passing of the Late Phillip Seymour Hoffman: “The reason we mourn Phillip Hoffman is not because of his death but because his future was stolen from us. Because he was such a great young actor that we could all feel and be specific about what he would have done and I really feel that.”

When quizzed on who he would like to work with in the current generation of actors, he said “George Clooney is a hero of mine”, in reference to Clooney’s performance in the critically acclaimed ‘Good Night, and Good luck’.

Ireland AM airs Monday to Friday from 7am – 10.45am on TV3.

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