Pierce Brosnan and Amir El-Masry presented Giant, Rowan Athale’s film of the boxer Naseem Hamed and his trainer Brendan Ingle, at a gala screening in the West End.
Pierce Brosnan and Amir El-Masry presented Giant, Rowan Athale’s film about the boxer Naseem Hamed, at Picturehouse Central in the West End on Wednesday 7 January 2026. Hamed himself joined them on the carpet for the UK gala screening.
Athale, whose earlier credits include Gangs of London, wrote and directed the film, with Sylvester Stallone as an executive producer. It follows Hamed from a working-class childhood in Sheffield to the championship fights of the 1990s, with the bond between fighter and trainer at its centre.
Brosnan was born in Drogheda, County Louth, in 1953 and trained at the Drama Centre London. He became known on television in Remington Steele and played James Bond four times between 1995 and 2002. In Giant he plays Brendan Ingle, the Irish trainer who shaped Hamed’s career.
El-Masry, seen in The Night Manager and Limbo, plays Hamed.
The screening came three months after the film’s first showing at the BFI London Film Festival, and two days before it opened in British cinemas.