
“We”d love to find a project together,” said the 63-year-old “Gandhi” star, who has a half dozen films of his own on the way, including “Elegy,” “The Wackness” and “The Love Guru.” “We”re both moved by similar things. Whatever happened before hasn”t stopped him from setting up a production company with Barbosa, a former waitress and sometime journalist. “I have signed a legal document whereby I am absolutely forbidden from making any reference to any previous marriage,” he replied. Did his last marriage give him any doubts that this one would work? Shortly thereafter, Kingsley met Barbosa. The couple ended their 15-month marriage last year.

But right now life is good.”īetter, certainly, than when a German tabloid published pictures of his third wife, Alexandra Christmann, also three decades younger than Kingsley, kissing another man.

So many things will conspire to upset the balance. “I hope they”re talking about the right person,” he said. One taxi driver said the “b-” was even tipping better. Leaving out “newspaper,” we said we”d heard that locals in his Cotswold village were finding Sir Ben much nicer since he”d married that young bird. “I”m saying I don”t read them,” he said firmly, “and you”re holding a newspaper under my nose! I”m trying to be polite, but. “I”m being dead-serious,” he interjected. It”s written for people who are curious about me.” “I don”t read anything about me in print,” Kingsley interrupted.

Well, we said, we”d just read a newspaper story about … We saw our opening when he mentioned that he was calling from his estate in Oxfordshire. But now we were trying to steer him toward the topic of his fourth marriage, this time to Daniela Barbosa de Carneiro, a Brazilian actress 30 years his junior.

We”d been careful to address the Oscar winner as “Sir Ben.” We”d asked him about each of his many new films.
