“I was cataloged for a while”: when Gary Oldman was tired of playing bad guys

JFK, the fifth element, Léon, or Dracula, the British actor’s career was punctuated by Bad Guys roles.

Gary Oldman Counts in his filmography a good number of bad guys, each more memorable than each other. Between the terrifying Dracula of Francis Ford Coppola, the sadistic DEA agent in Leonthe role of Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg of Fifth element or that of the psychopathic drug dealer of True Romancethe 67 -year -old British actor has a beautiful collection. Without forgetting the role of the alleged assassin of Kennedy in Jfk From Oliver Stone, who launched his super-viola career in the 90s.

Until the day Oldman was tired of being always offered the same type of character, as he explains to Variety ::

“I was cataloged for a while. I became a kind of headliner of the villain to rent. Like: ‘Oh, we need a villain and we will take Gary! ‘. I don’t know how it happened, but it happened. It was fun for a while, but I ended up putting an end to it. It was a bit boring. ”

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This is particularly with the role of Commissioner Gordon In the Batman trilogy of Christopher Nolan (Batman Begins,, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises) that Gary Oldman started to change course. Davis S. Goyerscreenwriter on the first two films, said in the podcast HAPPY SAD Confused have been first “Very surprised” by this choice of casting. “Now that I am a more experienced filmmaker, I realized that it is very exciting to make atypical castings”, he recognizes today. Also note the role of Sirius Black In Harry Pottera very nice disguise as badly bad that Oldman began to embody from 2004.

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Subsequently, the actor continued other various interpretations such as that of Jackson Lamb in the series Slow Horsesor that of Winston Churchill in Dark hoursfor which He won a Oscar In 2018. Recently, we were able to discover Gary Oldman in Parthenope by Paolo Sorrentino. Or rather should we say Sir Gary Oldman, since he was ennobled by King Charles III in person!