Guy Pearce has revealed his surprising reaction to receiving a nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the upcoming Golden Globes for his work in The Brutalist.
The Australian actor, 57, admitted he thought the ceremony sometimes got it wrong when it came to choosing winners and was unsure whether his work in the period drama was worthy.
I guess I’m a little confused. I’ve seen people win awards and I thought, ‘Really?'” Guy said. courier mail.
‘Then I saw other people not winning awards and I said “really?” So to be honest, I don’t know what I think about all this.
“I’m sure if I won an award I’d be like, ‘Wow. That was great, great.”
‘I think as long as I felt like what I had done was worth it. I won an award once and I felt quite positive because I felt I had created a character that was quite good.’
Guy Pearce (pictured) has revealed his surprising reaction to receiving a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the upcoming Golden Globes for his work in The Brutalist.
Guy stars alongside Adrien Brody, Felicity Martin and Taylor Swift’s ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn in the 2024 film that explores the people working for the American dream in post-World War II America.
The Memento star also said he was delighted to have been nominated for an Emmy last year for guest performance in a daytime drama series, for his cameo on Neighbors in 2022.
‘I must say it was flattering, but quite funny. It made me laugh.’
The English-born actor had a major role in the three-and-a-half-hour historical epic The Brutalist.
He plays an American industrialist who employs Adrien Brody’s main character, a Hungarian Jewish architect who survived the Holocaust.
The film was released in the United States last month and will hit Australian cinemas later this year.
Guy is one of Australia’s most respected actors and recently revealed the surprising reason he missed out on a role in Christopher Nolan’s Batman films, despite being friends with the director.
The acclaimed trilogy began with the 2005 release Batman Begins, starring Christian Bale as the title character alongside Liam Neeson as the villain Ra’s Al Ghul.
The Australian actor, 57, admitted he thought the ceremony sometimes got it wrong when it came to choosing winners and was unsure whether his work in the period drama was worthy.
Guy stars alongside Adrien Brody, Felicity Martin and Joe Alwyn in the 2024 film that explores the people working for the American dream in post-World War II America.
Pearce had previously played the lead role of an amnesiac in Nolan’s 2001 neo-noir film Memento, opposite The Matrix bombshell Carrie-Anne Moss.
When it came time to cast Batman Begins, Nolan thought enough of Pearce to fly him to London to read for Ra’s Al Ghul.
However, Guy was ultimately denied the role due to circumstances beyond his control and, in fact, has never worked with Nolan since.
In December, he revealed the real reason they hadn’t made a film together in almost a quarter of a century, in an interview with vanity fair.
The problem was that immediately after Memento, Nolan began a long professional relationship with Warner Bros., where one executive in particular was not a fan of Pearce’s performance and vowed to “never” hire him.