Guy Pearce had “good old laugh” with Robbie Williams at awards ceremony

nme.com:

Robbie Williams at the AACTA Awards, and it seems as though they got on well with each other.Pearce told The Guardian how it feels to be nominated for awards in a new interview – his role as Harrison Lee Van Buren in The Brutalist has seen him nominated for everything from an Oscar to a BAFTA – joking that Kieran Culkin has been beating him to all of the awards for his turn in A Real Pain.At the “divine” AACTAs in his native Australia, Pearce was nominated for Best Lead Actor, this time for his role in The Convert, and bumped into Williams, nominated for his biopic Better Man, while he was there.

He explained, “I said, ‘Hey, another award show!’ and he went, ‘But have either of us won anything? No!’ So we had a good old laugh – then of course he bloody won!”Better Man’s Jonno Davies was directly up against Pearce for Best Lead Actor, with Davies portraying Williams, and won in that category.

The movie also won Best Film, Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, Best Editing and Best Original Music Score and Best Casting.Meanwhile, Pearce said of getting his first Oscar nomination, “It’s funny.

Not funny that I haven’t had one before – just funny to even get one, I reckon. I stop and go, ‘Wow, is that – really? OK? That’s really happened?’”NME gave The Brutalist a glowing five-star review, writing, “The Brutalist will still probably feel like the least plausible Best Picture we’ve had in years.