Actor Guy Pearce discusses his new film 'The Brutalist', his career, and finding contentment with age.
Guy Pearce walked to his recent press day in Los Angeles. The hotel where the interviews were taking place was just a few blocks from the L.A. condo he bought around the time he was shooting “Memento” in 1999 and has held onto ever since. He would walk back home at the end of the day. There is something candid and unpretentious about Pearce, including how he talks about his profession.
'I suppose on some level I'm interested in demystifying it a little bit,' Pearce, 57, said over coffee in a corner table of the hotel's restaurant, with a hillside view of the city unfurling behind him. 'It's a funny life because it's always sort of being assessed in a way, and we're all assessing it together. You are asking me questions about me, I'm sort of trying to analyze myself and it's out there in the public. 'I'm trying to always be easier on myself as time goes on,' he adds. 'I've had darker, more troubled times and been grumpy at lots of things in the past, but I feel life's pretty good these days.' In between his two walks, Pearce would mostly be talking about his new movie “The Brutalist,” which has earned rave reviews and rapturous responses ever since it premiered without a distributor at the Venice Film Festival. Picked up by upstart awards powerhouse A24, the film has generated a lot of attention in advance of its limited release on Friday, with special 70mm engagements already happening. Pearce is the kind of hiding-in-plain-sight character actor that can be all too easy to overlook. Having begun as a child performer in Australia, he launched to stardom there while still a teenager on the TV soap opera “Neighbours” (which also gave a start to the likes of Kylie Minogue, Margot Robbie and Russell Crowe). His turns in films such as “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,” “L.A. Confidential” and “Memento” soon made him familiar to American audiences as wel
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