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Ellise Shafer Gary Oldman took the opportunity to clarify his comments about his acting in the “Harry Potter” franchise during the Cannes press conference for his new film, “Parthenope,” on Wednesday. When asked about a prior comment in which he disses his performance as Sirius Black as “mediocre,” Oldman said he didn’t mean to “disparage anyone out there who are fans of ‘Harry Potter’ and the films and the character who I think is much beloved.” “What I meant by that is, as any artist or any actor or painter, you are always hypercritical of your own work,” he continued. “If you’re not, and you’re satisfied with what you’re doing, that would be death to me.
If I watched a performance of myself and thought, ‘My God, I’m fantastic in this,’ that would be a sad day.” He continued, “There was such secrecy that was shrouded around the novels, they were under lock and key. And had I known from the very beginning, if I had read the five books and I had seen the arc of the character, I might have approached it differently. I may have looked at it differently and painted in a different color.
So when I started ‘Harry Potter,’ all I had was the book, ‘The Prisoner of Azkaban,’ and that one representation of that man. One book in the library of Sirius Black. And that’s kind of what I meant by it.
It’s not me looking at the movie and saying it’s a terrible film or I’m terrible, I just wish it had been under different circumstances. That’s what I meant, not to be rude to any of the people out there who like that film.” Oldman plays the American writer John Cheever in Paolo Sorrentino‘s “Parthenope,” which is a love letter to the director’s native Naples. At its premiere on Tuesday night, “Parthenope” received a 9.5-minute standing
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Gary Oldman is clarifying the previous comments he made about his performance in the Harry Potter franchise.
Harry Potter films was “mediocre”.In December, the actor spoke about how he felt about his performance as Sirius Black in the franchise, which began with 2004’s Prisoner of Azkaban and wound up with 2007’s Order of the Phoenix (except for a cameo in the final film in 2011).“I think my work is mediocre in it,” he told the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “No, I do.
Today at the Parthenope Cannes press conference, actor Gary Oldman was asked about throwing his performance as Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban under the bus.
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