Guy Pearce hopes that he can forget Memento.
The actor was frank on his work Christopher NolanThriller de Breakout, in which he plays a man without short -term memory who tries to resolve the murder of his wife.
“I have an existential crisis,” Pearce said in a new interview with the United Kingdom Time. “I looked Memento The other day and I am still depressed. I am S — In this film. I had never thought about it before, but I did what Memento Earlier this month and decided to review the film. But while he was playing, I realized that I hate what I did. “”
THE Adventures of Priscilla, queen of the desert And The confidential Star explained why he didn’t like his performance in Nolan’s film in 2000. “I was trying to make a casual attitude, but it was bad,” said Pearce. “John Gielgud said one day:” You can be good in a good movie, good in a bad movie, bad in a bad movie, but never be bad in a good film. “Yet I looked Memento And I realized that I am bad in a good film. F —. “”
Pearce clarified that he is still held under some of his first work. “Listen, I am satisfied with The confidentialBut I’m looking at that and I’m going, ‘oof! Nails on a blackboard! ‘, “He said about Memento. He then compared this film to his work on a beloved Australian soap opera: “If I count my performance Neighbors is two out of ten, Memento is a five. “”
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The actor said he had not consulted Nolan since his review (and hate) his performance. “No, because I think he would agree with me,” said Pearce. “It’s funny; people say I should have been nominated for Memento. Now I understand why I was not. “”
Memento Finally received the Oscar nominations for the best suitable scenario and the best assembly, finally losing to Gosford Park And Black Hawk Downrespectively. Pearce obtained his first Oscar appointment this year for his support turn The brutalist.
Pearce also took the opportunity to establish the hinges on time on the reasons for which he no longer collaborated with Nolan, which he had previously blamed in an inmpression. “All this on a Warners leader being why I no longer worked with Chris? It collapsed,” he said. “I know why I no longer worked with Chris – it’s because I’m not good Memento. “”
Pearce had thought about the meeting with Nolan to consider other projects after Memento. “He told me about roles several times over the years,” said Pearce recently Vanity. “The first Batman And The prestige. But there was a frame at Warner Bros. Who openly said to my agent: “I don’t have Guy Pearce. I’m never going to have Guy Pearce. I will never use Guy Pearce. ‘”