I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very vivid as I read the script and I'm not having to create stuff and trying to cobble together something. …
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About Guy Pearce
Guy Edward Pearce is an Australian actor. His accolades include a Primetime Emmy Award, as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, two Golden Globe Awards and eight AACTA Awards.
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I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me.
I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well.
The thrill of coming home has never changed.
It's funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.
Funny enough, if you are looking at people these days who are putting Botox in their face and getting all sorts of plastic surgery, we look at them and go, I can tell you've had Botox. I can tell you…
You work on things and you have such faith in them while you're making them that everything feels special - in a way.
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The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.