I got to the point where I was sick and tired of being sick and tired. I talked on the phone when it wasn't plugged in, and I was getting out of bed, crawling across the floor on my hands and knees, vomiting in the shower and blaming it on the shampoo. You name it, I've probably been there.
And back again. We had to drive off like the clappers with them chasing. And they were chasing us right through the red lights. It was like the Grand Prix going through the center of London. I couldn't believe it. Air Force One 's not a movie I'd particularly want to go and see myself, it's just not my cup of tea.
But I'm lucky that I have this lucrative second career. I'm getting older, I'm nearly 40 and I've got responsibilities and a family.
I've got to put food on the table and pay the mortgage like everybody else. If I want to take time away from the marketplace as an actor, and take two years out of my life to go off and do something like this that I feel very passionate about, I have to go and do a movie like "Air Force One" that buys me freedom, as cynical as that sounds. With Sid and Nancy , I'd never really liked the script. It put me off cause I think it was a rather inarticulate, monosyllabic, banal kind of generation of people.
I liked that particular idea [director] Alex Cox had developed, to do a love story about Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen. But that was about all it had going for it. In terms of dialogue, it was quite terrible.
And I think we did a good job of lifting some of that off the page and making it work. Acting is a passion, I'm obsessed. It drives my girlfriend mad cause I'm so self obsessed. I don't want any stone left unturned. I wanted to be Sid Vicious, I didn't want to play him. But there are two scenes I'm happy with a couple of scenes that maybe worked, I never enjoyed the film. I made the decision not to always play the token Englishman. I think the real juicy roles in my generation are going to go to the American actors.
I thought, this is the visual image I want to present, I want this before I do anything else. He doesn't need the karate and the fast car and the gun. That's what makes George dangerous, is the fact that he does blend in and he disappears. He's the one to watch. He's the leopard camouflaged by the jungle, ready to pounce, so its nice to play someone like that. He operates from a very unseemly passive position.
Britain has always had spies and I think we've spied rather well. He told me that you would be given an assignment and go to Russia or to Czechoslovakia.
You would be sent to watch someone. You would be in some miserable little room with a fake ID, and it would be very lonely and often very boring. He said that the terror of having your cover blown was exhausting: you were always waiting for the footsteps on the stairs. I guess that's why so many of them hit the bottle. I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing.
But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown. I read the script and thought it was a load of rubbish. I loved his work long before I ever had the idea of being an actor, so I was nervous to meet him. I was like a fanboy, like that annoying character on 'Saturday Night Live'.
I'm sitting there. Remember that scene you were in? It's an iconic part, it's just a wonderful leading role and it's the sort of role that one, in a career, dreams about. It's a role that will come along once or twice. If you look at any of those great parts, for instance, you take someone like Daniel Day Lewis -- who I think, any way you slice it, is a genius actor. How often do you get a Daniel Plainview? It's hard to top them. So this kind of role -- and when I say this kind of role, I usually play extrovert characters -- this role is also very quiet, it's subdued, it requires a different kind of thing, it's a minimalist performance in that sense.
It's a "please don't ask me to bounce off the walls anymore," you know what I mean? I've been waiting for it. Clint Eastwood gave me the best advice when I directed: "Get more sleep than your actors. I don't remember doing Sid and Nancy I've wiped that from the hard drive. I even felt sorry for the trees they cut down for the script paper. I hadn't worked, I needed some money after the divorce [from Donya Fiorentino in ].
If you're a connoisseur of the terrible, you might get a twisted joy out of it. I'm 56 now, and if you've managed to work as long as I have, you understand that these roles everyone fusses over are your career; they're not your life. It's just a job, really. You have financial responsibilities, you have children, you have all those things all the regular people have.
Honestly, I forget I'm an actor until I'm reminded. It was the most thrilling experience watching myself for the first time in JFK , for example, because I couldn't believe I was in it - Oliver Stone at the very height of his powers, the sheer energy of it all, his commitment.
When I saw the finished product I had to pinch myself. I thought, Wow, I'm in this movie. This is terrific. I'm trying to give my sons an education about movies as well. You tell them this guy was at one time considered the greatest living actor.
My boys look at me and say, "Really? This guy? He's a middle-aged dad. I try to give them a sense of what cinema used to be like rather than just these tent-pole movies that come and go on demand within five minutes. I've never worked with Todd Haynes.
I love John Sayles. I've never worked with Scorsese. A great director is a great artist. At one point I looked over and [ Harrison Ford ] was in the doorway beneath the sign with a burrito, a cigar and a cup of coffee, which I thought was hilarious. I could never get the image out of my head.
Nowadays we would take out an iPhone and post something like that on Instagram. There's a lot of rubbish talked about acting, and it's often propagated by practitioners of it. You just want to say, "Oh, shut up. I just think political correctness is crap. That's what I think about it. I think it's like, take a fucking joke. Get over it. I heard about a science teacher who was teaching that God made the earth and God made everything and that if you believe anything else you're stupid.
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Self uncredited. Self - Darkest Hour. James Gordon uncredited. Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg. In , he played one of the lead humans in the science fiction action film Dawn of the Planet of the Apes For his performance in the latter film, Oldman won his first Academy Award. Oldman has been married five times and has three sons : Alfie Oldman born from his first marriage to Lesley Manville. Gary Oldman His mother was a housewife, born in Ireland and his father was an ex-sailor, turned welder.
As a child, Oldman showed talent as a pianist and a singer. However, he decided to pursue acting instead of music, citing Malcolm McDowell in The Raging Moon as his primary influence for doing so. Acting Career: In , Gary Oldman graduated from drama school. He spent the next eight years working in the theatre and landed roles in some minor films, including 's Remembrance and 's Morgan's Boy. John Lydon the Sex Pistol's singer commented that Oldman was "a bloody good actor. The following year was a busy one for Oldman.
Later that year, he worked with Kevin Bacon in the film Criminal Law. The film, which also starred Tom Cruise and Winona Ryder, was a huge box office hit.
His appearance in Bram Stoker's Dracula proved to be a catalyst for his career and found him playing a string of 'bad guy' characters. In Murder in the First he played a cruel prison officer and in The Fifth Element, he played an oppressive capitalist. The next year, Oldman starred in Hannibal, the sequel to Silence of the Lambs.
In the film, he plays Mason Verger, Hannibal Lecter's only surviving victim. Julianne Moore and Anthony Hopkins also starred in the film. When Gary Oldman appeared in two episodes of Friends, the popular American sitcom, he was awarded an Emmy for his performance.
Gary Oldman played the role of Sirius Black in the film adaptations of J. Rowling's Harry Potter books. In , Gary Oldman was arrested for drink driving. He was with the actor Keifer Sutherland at the time. Gary Oldman has had four marriages. Since he has been married to Alexandra Edenborough. As coincidences go, Meryl Streep and Lily James ' discovery that they are distantly related is as adorable as it gets with the pair having portrayed young and older versions of the same character in the recent 'Mamma Mia 2'.
They are ninth cousins three times removed, if you can get your head around that. Gary Oldman and Laila Morse. In a drama echoing that which followed the Golden Globes earlier this year, the ex-wife of Gary Oldman has lashed out at the Academy Awards for awarding both the actor and short filmmaker Kobe Bryant at this year's event, when both have been accused of violence against women.
Gary Oldman at the Vanity Fair Oscar party. Donya Fiorentino has expressed her disgust that her former husband of four years was given the Best Actor Oscar for his role in 'Darkest Hour', especially in the wake of the flurry of allegations of violence and sexual assault that have plagued Hollywood in the last year. British actor Gary Oldman is somebody whose career seems to be going from strength to strength. In his latest movie 'Darkest Hour', he takes on the role of former UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill, chronicling a time in which the country had to choose which route to go down in regards to the looming Nazi threat.
This past weekend, Oldman picked up the award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for his performance as Churchill, and he now seems on the perfect path to do extremely well come time for the Academy Awards. Though he's telling a portion of history here, Oldman isn't somebody adversed to getting involved in a big screen telling of a fictional story. Despite the unusual casting, Gary Oldman has become the frontrunner to win most of the Best Actor prizes during this year's awards season for his performance as Winston Churchill in Joe Wright's Darkest Hour.
He already has the Golden Globe on his mantlepiece. Gary Oldman in 'Darkest Hour'. You could see yourself playing Lear maybe, down the road.
But when you start with the robust silhouette of a man like Churchill, with the big jowls and the double chin, it's hard to see that.
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