June 2013
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Iain Glen sold the HELL out of every single one of his scenes this season, often just with his facial expressions. You can really tell how much Jorah loves Dany.
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November 2012
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“[on working with Gary Oldman] Gary Oldman is my hero, that’s it. When I went to drama school everybody used to quote him in all his films, you know “State of Grace” right through to “Léon: The Professional” or whatever. And I’d sit there really quietly and think ‘No, no, you don’t know. I’m more of a Gary Oldman fan than you are.’ [laughs] When you do an impression of him, that’s sacrilege! So to work with him, for him to look me in the eye, talk to me…. acknowledge I exist! Cos I’m not star struck by people, but Gary just took the wind right out of me. I’m very lucky we had to re-shoot those scenes on the couch [in “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”] because the first task that I did was just me watching him, because I was shocked to actually be working with him. Then for him to actually like me, and to work three times with him, cos we did “Lawless” afterwards. I remember saying “Would you look at the script, it’s really cool”, and he’s like “Yeah, sure. This is crazy, you know? This is a man that I’ve stolen everything that I’ve done from, like “Bronson” and “Stuart: A Life Backwards”. That’s me trying to emulate what Gary’s done, and to work with him makes me feel like I don’t have any characters of my own. [laughs]”
—Tom Hardy (via lokiandbanegal)
September 2012
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“Working with Gary Oldman was hugely meaningful for me. I love his work and I have for a long time. Getting to work with that guy – he so disappears into his characters. My favorite kind of actors are the chameleons. The ones where you don’t see actor, you see the character. I specifically remember the first time I saw “The Dark Knight,” I just wasn’t paying that much attention to who was in the cast and whatnot. And when the credits came up and it said that Gary Oldman was playing Commissioner Gordon, I was like “[expletive] I totally forgot he’s that guy!” He played him in “Batman Begins” also but that was like four years prior, and it wasn’t on my mind and it just didn’t occur to me. Honestly, this is an actor I really like, I really like “True Romance” and “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.” I really like this actor and I literally didn’t recognize him. He’s so different. To me that’s the height of acting.”
—Joseph Gordon-Levitt on working with Gary Oldman (x)
