Yesterday featured a look at the roundtable interview I participated in with Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy star Colin Firth. My sit-down with the film’s director, Tomas Alfredson, and co-writer, Peter Straughn will be published on Friday. Today brings the question-and-answer segment focused on Gary Oldman, the firm, reserved core of the film’s ensemble.
Oldman plays George Smiley, perhaps the character most iconically associated with spy novelist John le Carré, who is responsible for the film’s 1974 source material. Oldman has, rather infamously (and sadly), never been formally recognized by the Academy Awards, and many are hoping that his layered turn as Smiley could break the barrier for him. However, the thing is, interestingly enough, that this quiet, methodical performance is something that the Academy rarely attaches themselves to, so the mere fact that he’s in firm contention for a Best Actor nomination – indeed, most pundits currently have...
Oldman plays George Smiley, perhaps the character most iconically associated with spy novelist John le Carré, who is responsible for the film’s 1974 source material. Oldman has, rather infamously (and sadly), never been formally recognized by the Academy Awards, and many are hoping that his layered turn as Smiley could break the barrier for him. However, the thing is, interestingly enough, that this quiet, methodical performance is something that the Academy rarely attaches themselves to, so the mere fact that he’s in firm contention for a Best Actor nomination – indeed, most pundits currently have...
- 12/8/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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