Guy Pearce on ‘The Brutalist’ Shocker, Watching Christopher Nolan Win the Oscar and the ‘L.A. Confidential’ Sequel That Almost Happened
variety.comClayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Guy Pearce is having a moment — not that he ever left. “It feels funny when people kind of go: ‘Wow, so you’re back,'” he tells Variety‘s Awards Circuit Podcast. “And I’m like ‘Where did I go?
I didn’t go anywhere?” With a career spanning three decades, Pearce has always been a highly respected character actor, equally convincing as the clean-cut, ambitious detective in “L.A.
Confidential” (1997) or the amnesiac unraveling his own mystery in “Memento” (2001). Now, he’s drawing attention once again with a complex and haunting performance in Brady Corbet’s period epic, “The Brutalist.” But for Pearce, success has always hinged on the material. “I always find the best work I do usually comes when the writing’s really good,” Pearce says during our conversation on the Variety Awards Circuit Podcast. “You feel inspired, and you just dance on top of what the writer has created.
When the script is there, everything else falls into place.” Listen below! A24’s “The Brutalist” tells the story of an architect (Adrien Brody) navigating trauma, ambition, and relationships in the aftermath of World War II when he immigrates to America from Hungary.
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