This time around, the former Bond star has a key role in boxing biopic Giant, which tells the story of the life and career of '90s boxing legend Prince Naseem Hamed through the lens of his relationship with longtime coach Brendan Ingle.
Speaking exclusively to RadioTimes.com ahead of the film's release, Brosnan explained how he would watch interview clips of Ingle "endlessly" while preparing for the role, listening to his voice and "his philosophy of life" – which he says chimed with his own views of the world, harking back to when he was starting out as an actor.
Ingle ran a boxing gym in Sheffield for years as part of an initiative to give young people more of a direction in life, and in doing so helped launch the career of several prominent boxers, also including Johnny Nelson, Herol "Bomber" Graham, Junior Witter, and Kell Brook.
He served as Hamed's mentor for 18 years – from when he was seven until he was 25 – but their relationship broke down in part due to an arrangement which saw Ingle take 25 per cent of the boxer's earnings.
He added: "I came to it as a father. I played it as a father/son relationship. But again, with all of the ingredients – the anger, the determination, the ambition, the burning ambition of both men, both men being kind of outsiders within a community in a space of history and time – that's what I identified with.
"He was this man who really took care of a community, took care of his wife, his family, and [had a] burning passion to be great. And then he found the greatness in Prince Naseem, this young man."
El-Masry added: "There's a beautiful tenderness to that, in a way. How, a man [who's] not sought out to make millions, but sought out to build a safe community for these young men to kind of get off the streets and be safe in a place where they feel welcomed, regardless of what background they're from."
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