Guy Pearce has discussed his recent encounter with 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. An epic about the literal building blocks of America, sure, and a big historical immigrant story, absolutely, it is deliberately never an easy watch. The unholy union of art and money isn’t meant to be palatable, and obsession never looks pretty if it’s done properly.
“The Brutalist earns its title even when it’s being occasionally hilarious and the running time isn’t the only thing about it that will leave you emotionally wiped out by the finale. But even though [director Brady] Corbet probably does a bit too much to make his film come across as a masterpiece, it’s impossible not to think it also actually is.”
Also in Pearce’s interview, he drew attention to his role in the prison drama Inside, which is set to appear in cinemas from Thursday (February 27). In the movie, he plays Warren Murfett, a prisoner who makes friends with younger inmate Mel Blight (Vincent Miller) and encourages him to kill cellmate Mark Shepard (Cosmo Jarvis), who has been in prison for mass murder since the age of 13.
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