Julian Sands spoke about “finding human remains” and the dangers of mountaineering weeks before his death – showbiz

Julian Sands spoke about the dangers and “scary things” she encountered while mountaineering in an interview weeks before she disappeared during the activity in January.

Best known for films like “Bedroom With A City View,” “Warlock,” “Dying In Las Vegas,” and “Romansanta,” the British actor with extensive mountaineering experience was talking about a new job for the BBC when the topic changed to the upcoming adventure.

“You found scary things in the mountains, when you know you are in a place where many people are lost, be it Eiger [Alpes suíços] or in the Andes. You can find human remains and it can be scary,” he told Radio Times late last year, after his remains were found on June 24 on Mount San Antonio (known locally as Mount Baldy), north of Los Angeles (California).

He added, “Not necessarily supernatural, perhaps very natural—what I would call supernatural. You are in the presence of great nature and great nature reveals itself in all its power. This can take us beyond the threshold of hypersensitivity to the control of natural forces.”

The actor also explained that “his version of LA isn’t swimming pools and parties…it’s rattlesnakes and bears and cougars and mountains” and described his activism as “Comfort and a kind of existential self-denial, but also self-affirmation.

He explained, “If you can handle dangerous mountains, you can certainly handle life as an actor—the two are so complementary.”

At the time, Sands, who was 64, dismissed the notion that he was too old to climb mountains, though he admitted that he had fewer and fewer friends to accompany him, either because of age or because “climate change, rocky surfaces are becoming more and more difficult.” So much. Unstable.”

“If you don’t really have the will, the discipline to climb a path, and if you’re not fully committed, it becomes more dangerous and it’s a more vacant experience. It’s not easy.”

He noted, “The problem with mountaineering is that you’re always making plans and looking for paths – you probably end up hitting 5% of all the things you set out to do.”

From the same generation as Daniel Day-Lewis, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Kenneth Branagh, and Rupert Everett, Julian Sands started out with supporting roles in Roland Joffé’s Oscar-winning Bloody Land and in the blockbuster Oxforx Blues, starring Rob Lowe. (“Discovery” in Portugal), both from 1984.

Fame came with success as she starred alongside Helena Bonham Carter in one of the most famous kisses in cinema history in James Ivory’s romantic drama “Room Overlooking The City” (1985), followed by Ken Russell’s “Gothic – Poets and Ghosts” (1986).

Choosing to move to Hollywood to enter American films, he delivered all kinds of productions, of greater or lesser quality, but they seldom delivered on the promise his initial works revealed.

Among the best titles from the horror saga “Warlock”, known in Portugal as “Sortilégio” and “Sortilégio 2: o Juízo Final”, from 1989 and 1993, as a sorcerer who traveled from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, haunted by Witch hunter played by Richard E. Grant (in the first film).

Other important titles in this first phase include “Arachnophobia” (1990); “O Festin Naked” by David Cronenberg (1991); “The Secret Passion of Women” (1991); and the controversial at the time (1993) “Boxing Helena” (“Wild Passion”), directed by Jennifer Lynch (David’s daughter).

There were also films by Mike Figgis: “The Browning Version” (1994), the Oscar-winning “Dying in Las Vegas” (1995), “Accomplice by Night” (1997) and “Timecode”.

Films that were already on the decline, the most notable films being Wim Wenders’ “Million Dollar Hotel” (2000); “Vatel” by Roland Joffé (2000); “The Medal” (2003); “Romasanta” (2004); Steven Soderbergh’s “Ocean’s Thirteen” (2007); US version “Millennium 1: Men Who Hate Women”, by David Fincher (2011); and Václav Marhoul’s “The Painted Bird” (2019).

Featured on television are the terrorist Vladimir Berko in season five of “24” (2006), Jor-El in two episodes of “Smallville” (2009-2010), and Miles Kastner in season eight of “Dexter.” (2013) and William Jagger in Crossbones.

His many theatrical stints over the past decade have been well received, including under the direction of John Malkovich.

He also voiced DeFalco in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.