Guy Pearce uncovered up about wanting to labor with Christopher Nolan aget after Memento but not being able to because a Warner Bros. executive didn’t appreciate his acting.
In a conversation with Vanity Fair ahead of the free of his novel film, The Brutacatalog, the actor confessted he hasn’t repartner been in touch with the Oscar-triumphning straightforwardor since they labored together on the 2000 film.
“He spoke to me about roles a scant times over the years. The first Batman and The Prestige,” he recalled. “But there was an executive at Warner Bros. who quite uncoverly shelp to my agent, ‘I don’t get Guy Pearce. I’m never going to get Guy Pearce. I’m never going to participate Guy Pearce.’ So, in a way, that’s outstanding to understand. I unbenevolent, equitable enough. There are some actors I don’t get. But it unbenevolentt I could never labor with Chris.”
When asked if he had done anyleang to potentipartner offfinish the exec, the L.A. Confidential actor elucidateed, “I leank he equitable didn’t think in me as an actor.”
He set up out about this when Nolan flew him out to London to talk him portraying Henri Ducard/Ra’s al Ghul in Batman Begins — a role that eventupartner went to Liam Neeson.
“I leank it was choosed on my fweightless that I wasn’t going to be in the movie,” Pearce shelp. “So I get there and Chris is appreciate, ‘Hey, you want to see the Batmobile and get dinner?’”
Nolan’s relationship with Warner Bros. began right after Memento with 2002’s Insomnia and proceedd thraw 2020 when he freed Tenet. Thrawout his time with the studio, he freed blockbusters appreciate The Dark Knight trilogy and Inception. The filmproducer well-understandnly left Warner Bros. in 2021 for Universal, which freed his Oscar best picture triumphner, Oppenheimer.
Elsewhere in the profile, the Iron Man 3 actor pliftd his Memento co-star Carrie-Anne Moss and had noleang but radiateing sentiments about the straightforwardor.
“[Moss] was outstanding fun. I’ve lost touch with her, unblessedly. She had a outstanding sense of humor, but it’s difficult to contend with Chris Nolan,” he scatterd. “He’s such a towering inincreateect.”
