For his Oscar-nominated performance as Herman J. Mankiewicz, the Academy Award-winning co-writer of Citizen Kane, Mank star Gary Oldman collaborated with fellow nominee David Fincher (who has earned his third nod for best director).
To achieve the Netflix film’s recreation of the Golden Age of Hollywood, the director at times had his actors performing the same scenes over a hundred times — at one point taking nearly a week to capture a scene.
But for Oldman, who earned a best actor Oscar for 2017’s Darkest Hour, those countless multiple takes are simply part of the job. "All directors have different ways of working," Oldman says. "If I’m committed to a project, I want to serve the character, the story and the director.
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