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rwmj ◴[05 Feb 25 15:50 UTC] No.42950240[source]▶
When Jeremy Irons was asked why he did Dungeons & Dragons (2000), he replied "Are you kidding? I'd just bought a castle, I had to pay for it somehow"

(https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190374/trivia/)

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falcor84 ◴[05 Feb 25 16:23 UTC] No.42950789[source]▶
As someone with more modest means, I'm wondering - was that just a quip, or is it really possible for rich people to buy property first, and then figure out how to pay for it? How do they finance it?
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1. HighChaparral ◴[05 Feb 25 19:32 UTC] No.42953856[source]▶
This is the castle in question:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilcoe_Castle https://jeremyirons.net/kilcoe-castle/

It’s quite something. He bought it for IEP 150,000 (around €190,000) but likely spent an order of magnitude more restoring it.