Post your questions for Guy Pearce | Movies

It’s laborious to select a favorite Man Pearce position over his practically 40-year profession, however let’s attempt. Maybe it’s drag queen Felicia Jollygoodfellow in his 1994 breakout Australian film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, or Detective Exley in 1997’s LA Confidential.Perhaps you like your Pearce going backwards in Christopher Nolan’s Memento; time-travelling again to 1899 in an adaptation of HG Wells’s The Time Machine; at sea in The Depend of Monte Cristo; or all-too-briefly at conflict in The Harm Locker. He’s additionally finished royal drama (The King’s Speech, Mary Queen of Scots) and he’s finished biopics (Andy Warhol in Manufacturing unit Lady and Harry Houdini in Dying Defying Acts). He’s been into house (Prometheus and Alien: Covenant) and he’s breathed hearth (Iron Man 3).Man Pearce, centre, with Russell Crowe in 1997’s LA Confidential. {Photograph}: Cinetext Bildarchiv/Warner Bros/AllstarHe’s made two Aussie westerns with John Hillcoat (Lawless, The Proposition) and two but gnarlier modern tales set in his homeland (Animal Kingdom, The Rover). And earlier this yr he was Oscar-nominated for his position as a rich industrialist in The Brutalist. He didn’t win the Academy Award, however he made plenty of new followers along with his candour about marriage, Palestine, and his emotions about LA Confidential co-star Kevin Spacey.Pearce additionally received an Emmy for his position within the Todd Haynes miniseries Mildred Pierce, and was glorious in Mare of Easttown – each reverse Kate Winslet. He launched two solo albums within the 2010s, and clothes up as a dishevelled superhero within the video to Razorlight’s Earlier than I Fall to Items. However, in fact, there are a few of us who won’t ever get past pondering of him pretty much as good outdated Mike from Neighbours – a job to which he returned with successful welly within the finale-that-wasn’t-a-finale.Now Pearce returns as a soon-to-be-paroled inmate in hard-hitting jail drama Inside, for which he has excitingly agreed to take the reader interview chair. There’s a lot to ask the actor. Was he actually second selection behind Christian Bale for Batman? Does he declare to be Australian or English? (Pearce was born in England however moved to Australia when he was three.) Can anybody – not to mention he – keep in mind the title of the character he performed in Residence and Away? Or the title of the No 156 single he launched in 1989? Why does he suppose that he’s “shit” in Memento? And the way are his knees as of late?Please get your questions in by 6pm this Sunday, 20 July, and we’ll print his solutions in Movie & Music and on-line on 1 August. Inside is out on digital, DVD and Blu-ray on 11 August