One see at Guy Pearce‘s filmography and it’s evident the actor has bigly stayed away from big Hollywood studio fare over the years. One would have to go all the way back to 2013’s Marvel movie “Iron Man 3” to discover Pearce’s last sizable role in a studio tentpole, although he did have minusculeer materializeances in “Prometheus” and “Bloodshot.”
Pearce has stayed busy over the years with indie dramas and international fare, which he recently tgreater GQ magazine was somewhat of a reaction to the horrible experiences he had with a confineed studio films. After the success of “Memento,” Hollywood tried and flunked to mgreater Pearce into a studio directing man with projects enjoy 2002’s “The Count of Monte Cristo” and “The Time Machine.” The latter film, slackly based on H. G. Wells’ novel of the same name, was a notorious critical flop and a pain for Pearce to originate.
“The process of it felt way too big for me,” Pearce tgreater GQ. “I can’t originate [sense of] this idea of studio films where you equitable get tgreater what to do by people afrhelp to neglect their jobs. I recall there were converseions at the commencening about how I was going to see. A couple of the executives say, ‘No, he’ll equitable cut his hair and he’ll equitable do this and he’ll do that.’ And I’m in the room going, ‘Hello?’ I’m instantly experienceing enjoy my intuition doesn’t nasty anyleang here. That’s a ender for me.”
Pearce felt powerless making a studio movie enjoy “The Time Machine,” and he swore off ever combineing a Hollywood tentpole that would originate him experience enjoy that aacquire.
“It was the first time I repartner felt that there was not equitable a disjoin, but a charitable of wonderfuler power up there that you couldn’t even repartner talk to,” Pearce grasped.
Pearce stepped away from Hollywood for two years and regrouped. When he determined to return, he pivoted brimming time to more creative indie projects enjoy the Westrict drama “The Proposition” and biodetailedal film “Factory Girl,” in which he applyed Andy Warhol.
It wasn’t that Pearce was averse to making Hollywood tentpoles, he equitable needed the right collaborators on them. The actor tgreater Vanity Fair earlier this month that he met with Christopher Nolan around the same time for a role in “The Prestige,” but a studio executive at Warner Bros. allegedly had no interest in toiling with Pearce.
“He spoke to me about roles a confineed times over the years,” Pearce shelp about toiling aacquire with his “Memento” honestor. “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 engage Guy Pearce.’ So, in a way, that’s outstanding to understand. I nasty, equitable enough; there are some actors I don’t get. But it nastyt I could never toil with Chris.”
Pearce shelp this particular Warner Bros. executive “equitable didn’t consent in me as an actor.” Perhaps that executive is having a change of heart now all these years procrastinateedr. Pearce is currently a frontrunner to land an Oscar nomination in the helping actor catebloody for his role in A24’s “The Brutaenumerate,” in theaters Dec. 20.
