Back in December, Guy Pearce surprisingly admitted that a Warner Bros executive had blacklisted him from ever appearing in another one of Christopher Nolan’s projects after “Memento.”
The actor recalled an unnamed executive at the studio criticizing his lead performance in the 2000 film. The WB executive’s lack of enthusiasm for Pearce subsequently got the actor blacklisted from working at both the studio and with Nolan.
Now, Pearce has had a total 180 on the subject and is saying that the Warners exec was right? Call whatever Pearce is going through a “midlife crisis,” or, as the actor refers to it, an “existential crisis.”
“I’m having an existential crisis,” Pearce admitted to The Times. “I watched ‘Memento’ the other day and I’m still depressed. I’m shit in that movie. I’d never thought that before, but I did this Q&A of ‘Memento’ earlier this month and decided to actually watch the film again.”
“But while it was playing I realized I hate what I did,” he added. “And so all this stuff about an exec at Warners being why I’ve not worked with Chris again? It came crashing down. I know why I didn’t work with Chris again — it’s because I’m no good in ‘Memento.’”
Pearce’s lead performance in “Memento” belongs in the Nolan time capsule. It’s easy for an artist to watch his or her work and nitpick on it, but moviegoers have been raving about Pearce’s work in “Memento” for a few decades now.
Last year, Pearce confirmed that because of the unnamed Warner Exec’s hatred towards him, the actor missed out on playing Ra’s al Ghul in Nolan’s “Batman Begins, a role that eventually went to Liam Neeson instead. Many were hoping his name to be announced as being part of “The Odyssey,” but that hasn’t come to fruition, just yet.