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Gary Oldman is looking back on his experience playing Sirius Black in the Harry Potter movies.
The 64-year-old actor made his debut playing Harry Potter’s imprisoned godfather in 2004′s Prisoner of Azkaban and died on screen in 2007′s Order of the Phoenix before making a cameo in the final movie in 2011.
Years after he hung up his cape and wand, he revisited his performance in the franchise while on the Happy Sad Confused podcast and deemed it lacking. Gary also jokingly reflected on what he deemed to be one of his hardest scenes to film.
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“I think my work is mediocre in it,” Gary admitted during the interview, comparing his performance to Professor Snape actor Alan Rickman‘s. “No, I do. Maybe if I had read the books like Alan, if I had got ahead of the curve, if I had known what’s coming, I honestly think I would have played it differently.”
He added that his critique of himself was not to diss fans of his work in the franchise or any of his other work. However, “If I sat and watched myself in something and said, ‘My god, I’m amazing’ that would be a very sad day because you want to make the next thing better. It’s so subjective,” he explained.
In the interview, Gary also said that “the most difficult thing I ever had to do” was filming a scene in Prisoner of Azkaban when dementors (the prison guards of Azkaban) were sucking his soul out of his body.
What made it difficult was how long filming took and the location. The scene took place alongside a frozen lake and was filmed in the studio over the course of a week.
“I had to just lie there for a week. Day in, day out, doing nothing,” he recalled, adding that his various body parts started hurting while filming.
Pedro Pascal is full of jokes at the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards!
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Harry Potter film franchise was not up to his own standards. Oldman played Harry’s godfather Sirius Black across four of the films, starting with 2004’s Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and winding up with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in 2007. But now, in an interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, he has said that he is not especially proud of his contribution to the films.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director The “Harry Potter” film franchise might have saved Gary Oldman’s career, but he’s not giving himself much praise for his performance as Sirius Black. Oldman debuted as the fan favorite character in 2004’s “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.” During a recent interview on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, the Oscar winner called his acting in the “Harry Potter” movies “mediocre.” Most fans across the world would probably disagree.