Pierce Brosnan’s Son Dylan Towers Over Him as They Make Rare Red Carpet Appearance at Screening of The Thursday Murder Club

Pierce Brosnan had the support of his son Dylan at a New York City screening of his new movie, The Thursday Murder Club.

On Thursday, Aug. 14, Pierce, 72, proudly posed on the red carpet next to his son Dylan, 28, as the pair attended a pre-reception at the Plaza Hotel before heading to The Paris Theater.

The James Bond star looked as dapper as ever as he donned a cream blazer, matching shirt and polka dot tie for the screening, which he teamed with a pair of black trousers. Meanwhile, Dylan opted for a gray plaid suit, a white shirt and a black-and-white striped tie.

Pierce stars in the highly anticipated Netflix movie, directed by Chris Columbus, alongside a killer cast, which includes Helen Mirren, Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie.

The film, which is based on the first book in Richard Osman’s popular series, follows four residents of a U.K. retirement home who solve cold-case murders for fun.

When a death happens close to home, the quartet get caught up in a thrilling and humorous whodunit.

While speaking following the screening on Thursday, Pierce discussed starring alongside such an incredible cast, sharing, “To be in the company of Sir Ben and Dame Helen was powerful, really powerful, but so easy because they’re so gifted, and so beautiful, great human beings to be with. We all became pals, we became a company of actors and we all come from the stage, so it was glorious.”

Pierce said that he and his character Ron “are kind of joined at the hip in so many ways,” admitting he “wasn’t aware of the books” before taking on the role. 

“Chris called me up and said, I’m doing [The] Thursday Murder Club. I read the book. I fell in love with the book. I fell in love with all the characters and my character, but I never asked him really why he cast me as this character, because I could see other men playing this character,” he said on the panel.

Calling the movie “a love story,” Pierce added, “It’s a love story between these four people who are so vibrant and so alive and have such a creative, passionate zest for life, and that’s what I brought, or I tried to bring, to Ron,” explaining that he “identified with Ron’s passion for doing good things.”

Pierce’s latest movie comes after he was joined by his sons Dylan and Paris, 24 — whom he shares with his filmmaker and philanthropist wife Keely Shaye, 61 — in the Western The Unholy Trinity, which was released in June.

While speaking to PEOPLE about what it meant to him to be able to share the screen with his sons after so many years of bringing them to movie sets, the actor praised the “beautiful emotion” of the experience. 

“To be able to share that with them is a gift of time and memory,” he said.

“We always stayed together tight as a family unit during the days of James Bond, and now of course, as they’re older, here to be able to make movies with Dad,” Pierce added of Dylan and Paris.

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Pierce told his sons of whether he’d appear with them onscreen again, “I would jump into the trenches any day of the week with you Brosnan men. We travel well together.” 

The Mamma Mia! star also shares three children with his first wife, the late actress Cassandra Harris: Christopher, 52, Sean, 41, and their late daughter Charlotte, who died of ovarian cancer in June 2013.

The Thursday Murder Club — which is produced by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment and also stars Naomi Ackie, Richard E. Grant, Jonathan Pryce and Tom Ellis — is on Netflix Aug. 28.