{"id":64487,"date":"2025-08-13T07:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/64487\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T07:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:01:10","slug":"pierce-brosnan-almost-chokes-on-salsa-during-tv-appearance-with-helen-mirren-on-the-tonight-show-starring-jimmy-fallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/64487\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierce Brosnan almost ‘chokes’ on salsa during TV appearance with Helen Mirren on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon"},"content":{"rendered":"

He’s the Irish actor tough enough to portray the iconic 007, James Bond<\/a>, but just don’t give Pierce Brosnan<\/a> some hot salsa!<\/p>\n

The actor, 72, appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/a> this week alongside his The Thursday Murder Club co-star \ufeffHelen Mirren, 80,<\/a> the pair trying some of Fallon’s homemade salsa with some chips.<\/p>\n

Brosnan couldn’t handle the heat and almost ”choked,” after Mirren called the food “fabulous”.<\/p>\n

Watch the video above.\ufeff<\/p>\n

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\"PiercePierce Brosnan almost ‘choked’ on salsa during a TV appearance with Helen Mirren. (@fallontonight\/YouTube)<\/p>\n

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Brosnan started clearing his throat and took some sips of water and admitted: “I don’t do hot sauce or jalape\u00f1os.”\ufeff<\/p>\n

“He’s choking!” Fallon jokingly remarked.<\/p>\n

\"Pierce “I don’t do hot sauce or jalape\u00f1os,” he said. (@fallontonight\/YouTube)<\/p>\n

Brosnan joked: “No, it’s ok, I’ll be fine. You two just carry on… it’s ok, just pretending.”\ufeff<\/p>\n

While Brosnan struggled with the salsa, Mirren loved it and carried on eating.\ufeff<\/p>\n

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These stars returned to their iconic movie roles years later<\/p>\n

The pair star in Netflix’s The Thursday Murder Club, where a group of retirees investigate murders, before becoming suspects in one.<\/p>\n

Directed by Chris Columbus, it is based on the novel of the same name.<\/p>\n

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Brosnan has kept himself busy in recent years and is also known for the 2025 series MobLand, and films including The Out-Laws, and Four Letters of Love.<\/p>\n

He is married to American journalist and author Keely Shaye Smith, 61, who he married back in 2001.<\/p>\n

\"KeelyHe is married to American journalist and author Keely Shaye Smith, 61. (Jamie McCarthy\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

As the pair marked their anniversary last year, Brosnan did a tribute post<\/a> and wrote about his wife: “Happy 23rd anniversary my darling Keely my beautiful brown eyed girl, my north, my south, my east and west.”<\/p>\n

“All my love, should I fall behind wait for me.”\ufeff<\/p>\n

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