Pierce Brosnan Saved Uma Thurman from Potential Car Crash — He Has a 'Warm, Kind Heart' despite Tough Childhood

• Pierce Brosnan grew up to be a fine gentleman with a kind heart despite his difficult childhood.
• He grew up without a father, yet is a doting father and grandfather to his five kids and four grandchildren.
• The same way he plays superheroes and superagents in movies, he is also a superhero in real life.
• Brosnan once saved "Percy Jackson" co-star Uma Thurman from an uncontrollable van while filming on location.

Pierce Brosnan often plays superagents and superheroes in movies, which mirrors how he is in real life. He's a doting husband, father, and grandfather and has been noted for saving the life of one of his famous colleagues.

Before becoming one of Hollywood's most esteemed actors, Pierce Brosnan had to endure a difficult and lonely childhood. His father left him when he was an infant, and he grew up in the care of his mother and grandparents.

Brosnan commended his mother for being courageous, choosing to leave Ireland to work as a nurse in England in hopes of a better life for him. They only saw each other once or twice a year, and he was left with his grandparents, whom he remembered quite differently from one another.

The "Black Adam" actor remembers his grandfather as a great man, well respected in the community, while his grandmother was a darker person. Helping them raise Brosnan were the Christian brothers, and it wasn't a great experience for the actor.

Brosnan called the brothers "dreadful," claiming they were hypocritical in what they preached. He added that they were often very cruel to children and were somewhat bitter. "I have nothing good to say about them and will have nothing good to say about them," he said. "It was ugly. Very ugly. Dreadful. I learned nothing from the Christian brothers – except shame."

When Brosnan began to grow up, he ended up in a boarding house where he shared a room with two working men. One of the men he stayed with worked in a factory, while the other worked in a sawmill.

The actor recalled that in that room, almost always alone, he started to daydream about one day being in American Westerns, something that he deeply enjoyed. That was how he began to work towards his future career.

Brosnan Chose to Have a Family

Despite the difficult past he had with his family, Brosnan chose to have a family of his own later on. He married Keely Shaye Smith in 2001, ten years after his marriage to Cassandra Harris ended after she died of cancer.

The actor adopted his late wife's children from a previous relationship, Charlotte and Christopher, and raised them as his own. They also shared a son named Sean. Meanwhile, Brosnan shares two sons named Dylan and Paris with Smith.

Brosnan, who has endured all the ups and downs with his wife Keely, was once asked what the secret was to a great marriage. He answered:

"Solving problems day in, year after year, liking each other, getting on with each other."

While the entire world knows Brosnan as "James Bond," he is simply "dad" to his children. Likewise, Brosnan is quite present in his grandchildren's lives, as they "melt his heart." He admitted that there was something "intoxicating" about being a grandparent, and it has something to do with how much time had gone by in his life.

While promoting the film "The Son," Brosnan noted that while he has experience raising four sons, his fatherly instincts were not passed on but were entirely his own. "They relate back to no one because there was no one," he admitted.

While filming, Brosnan noticed a vehicle moving uncontrollably towards his co-star Uma Thurman and a few other cast and crew members and decided to step in to make sure they were unharmed by the threat.

Smith also has kind words to say about her husband as a family man. While promoting his latest movie "Black Adam" where he stars alongside Dwayne Johnson, she told the press that he was just as much a superhero in their own home as he is on the big screen. When asked what made him a superhero at home, she revealed it was his "big heart; generous, warm, kind heart."

Brosnan is a Real-Life Superhero

The same way that the actor is a superhero to his family, he was also a savior to his colleagues while they were shooting "Percy Jackson." While filming, Brosnan noticed a vehicle moving uncontrollably towards his co-star Uma Thurman and a few other cast and crew members and decided to step in to make sure they were unharmed by the threat.

The "James Bond" actor saw that no one was driving the van as it moved swiftly towards a grassy area where Thurman was lounging in-between takes. Brosnan ran after the van, opened the driver's door to get in, and pressed on the brakes as soon as he could.

Ultimately, the van hit a curb and crashed into several garbage bins, and the cast and crew were able to move out of the way before the actor brought the van to a stop.

The movie's transportation crew was reprimanded for not setting the van's emergency brake properly, and the incident made Brosnan a hero in the eyes of his co-star. "Pierce got kudos and hero 007 jokes from Uma," an insider disclosed.

If anything came out of Brosnan's difficult childhood, it was knowing for certain what he didn't want to happen with his own family. The actor puts great importance on his relationships with his wife, kids, and grandkids, and puts them at the center of everything he does as an actor.