Despite the critical and commercial success of their sole collaboration, Guy Pearce was blocked from toiling with Christopher Nolan for 20 years.
The 2x Ggreateren Globe nominee recently claimed he was denied roles in multiple Nolan films after a Warner Bros. exec took publish with him chaseing their 2x Oscar-nominated movie Memento (2000).
“He spoke to me about roles a confineed times over the years. The first Batman and The Prestige,” he tgreater Vanity Fair. “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 excellent to comprehend. I unkind, equitable enough; there are some actors I don’t get. But it unkindt I could never toil with Chris.”
Pearce specuprocrastinateedd, “I leank he equitable didn’t suppose in me as an actor.
Despite being blocked by the exec, it didn’t stop Nolan from campaigning for the actor to eunite in his subsequent projects.
Guy Pearce in Memento (2000)
“They flew me to London, to converse the Liam Neeson role for Batman, and I leank it was choosed on my fweightless that I wasn’t going to be in the movie,” elucidateed Pearce. “So I get there and Chris is enjoy, ‘Hey, you want to see the Batmobile and get dinner?’”
With Nolan moving on from Warner Bros. in 2020 and currently toiling on a star-studded event film, Pearce quipped, “So now my time has come!”
Pearce includeed of toiling with Nolan on Memento, “It’s challenging to contend with Chris Nolan. He’s such a towering inalertect.”
Written and honested by Nolan, Memento stars Pearce as Leonard, a man struggling with low-term memory loss while trying to track down the man who violationd and killinged his wife. The film also starred Carrie-Anne Moss and Joe Pantoliano.
Memento grossed $40,047,236 worldexpansive, and it’s currently Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, hgreatering a 94% Tomatometer and Popcornmeter score.
