Heartbreaking: Gary Oldman English Actor and Film Writer Just Passed Away At the Aged of 66…see..more… generally considered, correctly, to be one of our greatest living actors. Some of Oldman’s best roles are some of the best performances in recent memory. Christopher Nolan is known, also correctly, as one of our greatest current directors. Together, the pair have made four movies, with Oldman playing James Gordon in Nolan’s Batman trilogy as well as appearing in the cast of Oppenheimer. One of the reasons the two have worked together so often may be that Nolan doesn’t have to do much when directing Oldman.
story that Oldman told on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that is currently going viral on Instagram reveals that over the seven years that Oldman has been directed by Christopher Nolan, the director has only ever given him a couple of notes. One of those came during one of the Batman movies, and even the note was simple. Oldman said…
I did a scene once in Batman and he came up to me, and it was probably one of two notes he ever gave me in seven years, and he came up to me and he said ‘Let’s do that one more time. There’s more at stake
Oldman doesn’t specify which scene, or even which Batman movie, the note came from, but it was clearly important if it was one of only a couple of times that Nolan even gave him a note at all. Oldman has spoken about the importance of trusting his director, and part of that may be trusting him to focus on what’s importan
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