Guy Pearce came from the Australian soap Neighbours and broke internationally in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and then L.A. Confidential, where his ambitious young detective is the film’s most morally interesting figure.
Memento is the performance that defined him: a man with no short-term memory, played across a reversed timeline, requiring him to perform scenes without knowing what preceded them.
He has consistently chosen small and difficult films over leading-man work, including The Proposition, Animal Kingdom and The Rover.
He is also a musician and has released several albums, and takes franchise work sparingly.
Colin FirthThe King's Speech (2010) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A well-made two-hander about a man with a stammer and the unqualified Australian who treated him, which beat The Social Network for Best Picture and Best Director…
Guy PearceThe Time Machine (2002) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. H. G. Wells's great-grandson directed it, collapsed from exhaustion, and Gore Verbinski shot the last eighteen days. The first act is genuinely good and the film throws…
Ben KingsleyTony Stark hunts a terrorist called the Mandarin while battling PTSD from the Avengers, with Christmas as the season-long backdrop. Iron Man 3 is Shane Black's 2013 American superhero film depicting Tony Stark hunting an apparent terrorist called the Mandarin…
Anthony MackieKathryn Bigelow's 2008 Iraq EOD drama. Won Best Picture, Best Director.
Guy PearceCurtis Hanson's 1997 neo-noir on 1950s LAPD corruption. The rare adult crime film that respects its audience.
Carrie-Anne MossChristopher Nolan's directorial breakthrough. Guy Pearce's career-defining performance.
Charlize TheronPrometheus wastes one of the most visually gifted directors in contemporary cinema on a script that requires its characters to be catastrophically stupid. These are supposedly the best scientists humanity could assemble for a trillion-dollar mission to find humanity's creators.
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