Guy Pearce opens up about wanting to work with Christopher Nolan again commemorate But it didn’t happen because one of the Warner Bros. executives didn’t like his performance.
with vanity fair Ahead of the release of his new movie, fauvismthe actor admitted that he hasn’t really kept in touch with the Oscar-winning director since they worked together on the 2000 film.
“He’s talked to me about characters many times over the years. The first one batman and prestige,” he recalled. “But one of the executives at Warner Bros. publicly said to my agent, ‘I don’t understand Guy Pearce. I will never get Guy Pearce. I will never hire Guy Pearce. So, in a way, It’s good to know that. I mean, that’s fair. There are some actors I don’t quite understand, but it means I’ll never be able to work with Chris.
When asked if he had done anything that might have offended executives, L.A. Confidential The actor explained, “I think he just didn’t believe in me as an actor.”
He discovered this when Nolan flew him to London to discuss his role as Henri Ducard/La’s Al Ghul in the film. batman begins — a role that eventually went to Liam Neeson.
“I think I decided on the plane that I wasn’t going to be in the movie,” Pierce said. “So I got there and Chris said, ‘Hey, do you want to see the Batmobile and have dinner?'”
Nolan’s relationship with Warner Bros. began commemorate with the 2002 Insomnia and continued into 2020, when he released purpose. While working in the studio, he released such releases as dark knight trilogy and Inception. this The filmmaker left Warner Bros. in 2021 to join Universal Pictures, which distributed his Oscar-winning Best Picture, Oppenheimer.
Elsewhere in the profile, iron man 3 The actor praised his commemorate Co-star Carrie-Anne Moss has nothing but warm feelings for the director.
“[Moss] Very interesting. Unfortunately, I lost touch with her. She has a great sense of humor, but it’s hard to compete with Chris Nolan,” he shared. “He’s so intellectually advanced.”
