Nails on a chalkboard!"
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Guy Pearcewishes he could forgetMemento.
“I’m having an existential crisis,” Pearcesaid in a new interviewwith the U.K.‘sThe Times.
Guy Pearce in ‘Memento’.Credit:Newmarket Releasing/Courtesy Everett Collection
“I watchedMementothe other day and I’m still depressed.
I’m s— in that movie.
But while it was playing I realized I hate what I did.”
Guy Pearce; Christopher Nolan.Michael Loccisano/Getty; Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty
TheAdventures of Priscilla, Queen of the DesertandL.A.
Confidentialstar explained why he dislikes his performance in Nolan’s 2000 film.
“I was trying to do a flippant attitude, but it was all wrong,” Pearce said.
Yet I watchedMementoand realized I’m bad in a good movie.
F—."
Pearce clarified that he still stands by some of his early work.
“Look, I’m pleased withL.A.
Confidential, but I look at this and go, ‘Oof!
Nails on a chalkboard!'”
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“No, because I reckon he’d agree with me,” Pearce said.
“It’s funny; people say I should’ve been nominated forMemento.
Now I understand why I wasnt.”
Pearce received his first Academy Award nomination this year for his supporting turn inThe Brutalist.
“All this stuff about an exec at Warners being why I’ve not worked with Chris again?
It came crashing down,” he said.
“I know why I didnt work with Chris again its because I’m no good inMemento.”
Pearce had reflected on meeting with Nolan to consider other projects afterMemento.
“He spoke to me about roles a few times over the years,” Pearce recently toldVanity Fair.
“The firstBatmanandThe Prestige.
I’m never going to get Guy Pearce.
I’m never going to employ Guy Pearce.'”
