You once said you have to have control over things that If you had a brain surgery, you only feel comfortable if you do it yourself. Do you still feel that way? Fiorybek
I don't remember that I said that, but I can see how someone could joke about it. There is usually room for improvisation in life, but I have never been a very good improviser for acting. When I do things in my own accent, like Jack Irish, he was pretty fairy and funky, so I could be looser and pull things out of the air. But when I work with powerful actors and speak with a tricky accent, I learn my lines, do what is necessary and keep control.
If you would take part in a dinner party where all other guests were characters that they played, who would they sit next to you and who would you avoid?? Frocksway
I would avoid Eric from the Rover and the Reverend from Brimstone because they may kill me. Ed Exley from La Confidential is quite arrogant and boring. I want to sit next to Andy Warhol that I played [in Factory Girl]. Houdini would be interesting, although I don't think they would get a word. And Leonard von Memento would start with dessert and end with the starter because he is all backwards.
I love my partner very much, but she says that if she would ever leave me, it would be for “Mike von neighbors”. What can I do to stop them? Maybe you can tell her Toomuch savings
No, I won't let her stop. I am all the way with her when she thinks: If you want an affair, make sure you have one with Annette Bening or whoever. Maybe she has to see some of the terrible characters that I played like Charley Rakes in Lawless. This is another character that I don't want to sit next to. She should watch Brimstone and Lawless, and I can guarantee that she has lost interest in Mike from neighbors.
When she sent you the script for Memento for the first time, was it backwards? Lagodeluna
It was exactly the way you see it in the film. When Christopher Nolan speaks of people who have control over what they are doing, he is king of it because he constructed something so brilliantly where there was no room for things that could move. When my agent sent me the script, he said: “By the way, everything goes backwards.” I am glad that he did it, otherwise I would have read it three times before I got what was going on.
All news about the Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Consequence? Did you get back into the lavender bus or still put you in the desert before production? Badrobot2 and Feir Feidz
We put in the desert before production and go back and forth in script, places and budget. I have the feeling that there is enough love in the room to achieve it.
I don't know if I'm looking forward to putting on a dress again. I don't think I will look so good in a dress I turned Prometheus in London, so they said: “Could you come to Madame Tussauds and stand in your underwear and pull them” – you had a photo – “And we will take six million photos from every point of view?” I said, “This is 2011. I am not in the same form that I was in 1993.” They went: “Yes, yes, yes. Everyone wants bigger muscles and bigger breasts. We will make the Clay model first, you can come in, and if you don't like something, you can let us know.” So I had to go in and say: “If you look at this photo, my waist used to be a little thinner” and you said: “Oh yes, good point.”
Do you have ha?I suspect that La Confidential would be such a masterpiece while you filmed it? Gaspargarcao
No, the answer is. I really have an idea for something. I had made four or five films in Australia, but it was a completely different environment: in the USA, with Americans, in an American film. The whole thing was so big that it was difficult for me to measure something. I was too concentrated to do a good job to think: “Wow, it will be good.” I was the second person to Russell Crowe. Russ and I rehearse while working with the script and occupied other people. So David Strathairn, Kim Basinger and Danny Devito appeared.
James Cromwell says to my character in the film: “Would you be ready to shoot a hardened criminal to save your face?” I say: “No, no no”, everything is moral, but in the end I shoot it in the back. When I shot him, the slot shot flew out and hit it into the back of the head. He was 30 feet away, so everyone said: “Don't worry, it's safe.” But for a moment I thought: “Lord. I killed him. I will never work again in Hollywood.”
There was a certain one Role that Radiohead's approval nod brought them to appear in their music video Do you follow me? Mcscootikins
I don't believe. They contacted my agent in the USA and said: “Do you have actors who might want to do it?” And Chris, my agent, who knows that I am a big radiohead fan, immediately said: “Guy Pearce is currently in London.” I shot a spy among friends with Damian Lewis and said: “I have to call Thom Yorke about this Radiohead music video. So apologize.”
Are you grateful that your pop career was not started in the late 80s? Megapode777
That is the best question that was ever asked in my life. After I finished the neighbors, there was a time when people said: “Were you Mike from neighbors used to?” Then one day this 10- or 12-year-old child came to me in a shopping center and said: “Were you used to Guy Pearce?” I thought: “Wow, that's the most profound thing someone has ever said.” In a way, it was true.
I always knew that I wasn't just a soap operator. I was only stuck in this cycle. I had made theater in front of the neighbors for 10 years, which played the same figure for four years. I wanted to deal with a variety of personalities and behaviors. But when I ended the neighbors in 1989, I was in the wilderness because nobody wanted to keep the guy who was in neighbors, and I tried to find work. I went back and made a theater, a bit at home and away and then, in 1993, I had to make priscilla. So, yes, I am Really I am grateful that my 80s -M 80s -P -POP career was not started!