Before we start, I have to admit to a personal bias that may color this story: I’ve been a fan of Guy Pearce since first seeing him in 1997’s L.A. Confidential. So knowing that he’s been popping up on the 2024 movie schedule in movies like The ...

He was briefly considered for Liam Neeson's part in 'Batman Begins' before it was decided he wasn't allowed to take on the role.

Clearly, that hater WB exec did not much appreciate Pearce’s work in Memento. And who knows where that person is today, or whether they’re still blocking Pearce’s opportunities. We do know that Christopher Nolan is not still at Warner Bros., so perhaps, as Pearce put it to jokingly end the VF interview, “now my time has come!”

Guy Pearce doesn’t think he would be cast in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert if it were made today.

Guy Pearce revealed in a new interview with Vanity Fair that he was blocked from starring in Christopher Nolan movies after 2000's "Memento" because a Warner Bros. executive just didn't like his acting.

Guy Pearce was Christopher Nolan’s first choice for the character of Ra’s Al Ghul in Batman Begins, but for some reasons Liam Neeson ended up getting the role.The actor recently

Pearce had previously played the lead role of an amnesiac in Nolan's 2001 neo-noir picture Memento, alongside The Matrix bombshell Carrie-Anne Moss.

Guy Pearce claims Warner Bros exec barred him from working with Christopher Nolan again - Pearce starred in Nolan’s breakout neo-noir ‘Memento’ in 2000