Gary Oldman On Playing ‘Mank’, Working With David Fincher, And Finally Answering The Controversy Of Who Really Wrote ‘Citizen Kane’
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deadline.comComing off a Best Actor Oscar win for Darkest Hour, Gary Oldman had a lot of choices but following up that remarkable portrait of Winston Churchill during the war years with another real life figure , an alcoholic screenwriter from Hollywood’s golden era , could not be more of a polar opposite.
The result however is the same, and that is wide acclaim and instant Oscar buzz for his portrayal in Mank, about the Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz who contractually wasn’t even supposed to receive credit for the job that Orson Welles, then the 25 year old wunderkind director/star, brought him aboard to do.Welles and Mankiewicz ended up sharing credit, and ironically the iconic film’s only Oscar, for Best Screenplay, out of nine
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