Pierce Brosnan selling his James Bond-inspired LA house for $100 million.
The actor who portrayed James Bond was inspired to design the oceanfront home in a Southeast Asian style while filming ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’ in Thailand.
The actor and his wife, journalist and filmmaker Keely Shaye Brosnan, started working on the custom 12,500-square-foot house in 2002, shortly after the debut of Brosnan’s fourth Bond film, Die Another Day.
They hired architects Ralph and Ross Anderson to build them a new house inspired by their trip to Thailand, where “we fell in love with the architecture,” says Ms. Brosnan.
Named “Orchid House,” the Malibu property spans roughly an acre on Broad Beach, which is home to other actors like Dustin Hoffman and Danny DeVito. The Brosnan property has about 120 feet of frontage on the ocean, while the average home in the area has around 42 feet, says listing agent Chris Cortazzo of Compass.
As befits a Hollywood star, the lower level of the home has a screening room with custom surround sound, a bar and tiered seating for about 20. “We screen first-run movies every weekend when we’re home,” says Ms. Brosnan. “It’s dinner and a movie.”
Outside the screening room, another bar has a caramel-covered onyx countertop and climate-controlled storage for roughly 200 bottles of wine. Like James Bond, Mr. Brosnan “loves to have a martini,” his wife says.
There is also a gym, a music room and a travertine-walled spa with two soaking tubs. The couple selected chandeliers for the house at antique dealers in Paris, Mr. Brosnan says.
Outside, the estate has carved teak entry gates the couple brought home from Thailand, Ms. Brosnan says. There is a saltwater outdoor pool with a waterfall and glass-enclosed areas for outdoor dining, “so you can have an outdoor dinner party and your napkins aren’t blowing around.”
“It’s time to move on… It’s time to change,” Brosnan told WSJ of his and Smith’s decision to sell the custom home. Currently, they’re spending their days at their compound on the North Shore of Kauai in Hawaii, though they may soon look for a home in Santa Barbara, California, where they spent $2.945 million on a home for Paris and Dylan just last year.
“I love Malibu. It has my heart,” Brosnan shared. But for now, he says, Hawaii is where you’ll find him: “Home is very much here in the islands.”
