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Guy Pearce ‘Wanted to Punch’ a ‘Snobby Actress’ for Mocking His Soap Opera Career to His Face: ‘Five Years Later, I Saw Her on Some S— Ad on TV’

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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Guy Pearce recently spoke to The Times as part of his Oscar campaign for “The Brutalist” and remembered getting piled on by members of the industry due to his acting start on the popular Australian soap opera “Neighbours.” Pearce was a cast member from 1986 to 1989. “I have many feelings about that show,” Pearce said. “In the old days you were either a theatre actor or a film actor, and if you got stuck in a soap you were the lowest of the low — but what an opportunity.

I had no clue what I was doing but learnt a lot. When young actors ask me for advice, I shrug and say, ‘Get lucky?’ Because I got lucky. “That said, it really was frowned upon,” Pearce added of “Neighbours,” which also served as a launching pad for talents like Kylie Minogue and Margot Robbie. “I did a play a year after I left and this snobby actress said, ‘How could you even do that?’ I wanted to punch her!

Now, obviously, I didn’t punch her. But it was such a horrible attitude. And then, five years later, I saw her on some shit ad on TV.

I so wanted to go and find her and say, ‘Ok…’” Pearce is clearly proud of his soap opera roots, as he made a surprise return to “Neighbours” in 2022 for its series finale in Australia.

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