Irish actor Gabriel Byrne has paid a heartfelt tribute to his friend the late actor Julian Sands, who he described as having a “fierce intelligence” and a “unquenchable curiosity”. Writing in The Guardian, Byrne said “images of Julian have been recurring in my mind”, in recent months. Byrne said, Sands was “destined – everyone said – to be a Hollywood heartthrob” but that was not what Julian wanted and instead, he “craved distant fields and mighty rivers”.