Guy Pearce has revealed his very surprising reaction to receiving a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the upcoming Golden Globes for his work on The Brutalist.
The Australian actor, 57, admitted he thought the ceremony sometimes got it wrong when it came to picking the winners, and wasn’t sure if his work on the period drama was worthy.
‘I am a bit confused, I suppose. I’ve seen people win awards and I thought “really?”‘ Guy told The Courier Mail.
‘Then I’ve seen other people not win awards and gone “really?” So I don’t know what I think about it all to be honest.
‘I’m sure if I was to win an award I’d go, “Wow. That was great, pretty cool”
‘I think as long as I felt like what I’d done was worthy of it. I won an award once and I felt pretty positive about it because I felt like I created a character that was pretty good.’
Guy Pearce (pictured) has revealed his very surprising reaction to receiving a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the upcoming Golden Globes for his work on The Brutalist
Guy stars alongside Adrien Brody, Felicity Martin and Taylor Swift’s ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn in the 2024 movie which explores people working towards the American dream in post-WWII America.
The Memento star also said he was pleased to be nominated at the Emmys last year for Guest Performance in a Daytime Drama Series, for his cameo appearance on Neighbours in 2022.
‘It was flattering, I have to say, but pretty funny. It did make 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 lead character, a Hungarian Jewish architect who survived the Holocaust.
The film was released in the US last month and will be out in Australian cinemas later this year.
Guy is one of Australia’s most respected actors and he recently revealed the startling reason he missed out on a role in Christopher Nolan‘s Batman movies – despite being friends with the director.
The acclaimed trilogy began with the 2005 release Batman Begins, starring Christian Bale as the title character opposite 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 picking the winners, and wasn’t sure if his work on the period drama was worthy
Guy stars alongside Adrien Brody, Felicity Martin and Joe Alwyn in the 2024 movie which explores people working towards the American dream in post-WWII America
Pearce had previously played the lead role of an amnesiac in Nolan’s 2001 neo-noir picture Memento, alongside The Matrix bombshell Carrie-Anne Moss.
When the time came to cast Batman Begins, Nolan thought highly enough of Pearce to fly him out to London to read for Ra’s Al Ghul.
However, Guy was ultimately denied the role by circumstances out his control – and has in fact never worked with Nolan since then.
In December, he revealed the real reason they have not done a picture 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 particular executive was not a fan of Pearce’s acting and vowed ‘never’ to cast him.
