One take a look at Man Pearce‘s filmography and it’s clear the actor has largely stayed away from huge Hollywood studio fare through the years. One must go all the way in which again to 2013’s Marvel film “Iron Man 3” to search out Pearce’s final sizable position in a studio tentpole, though he did have smaller appearances in “Prometheus” and “Bloodshot.”

Pearce has stayed busy through the years with indie dramas and worldwide fare, which he lately informed GQ journal was considerably of a response to the dangerous experiences he had with just a few studio movies. After the success of “Memento,” Hollywood tried and didn’t mould Pearce right into a studio main man with initiatives like 2002’s “The Depend of Monte Cristo” and “The Time Machine.” The latter movie, loosely primarily based on H. G. Wells’ novel of the identical identify, was a infamous important flop and a ache for Pearce to make.

“The method of it felt method too huge for me,” Pearce informed GQ. “I can’t make [sense of] this concept of studio movies the place you simply get informed what to do by folks afraid to lose their jobs. I bear in mind there have been discussions firstly about how I used to be going to look. A few the executives say, ‘No, he’ll simply minimize his hair and he’ll simply do that and he’ll try this.’ And I’m within the room going, ‘Hi there?’ I’m instantly feeling like my instinct doesn’t imply something right here. That’s a killer for me.”

Pearce felt powerless making a studio film like “The Time Machine,” and he swore off ever becoming a member of a Hollywood tentpole that will make him really feel like that once more.

“It was the primary time I actually felt that there was not only a disconnect, however a type of higher energy up there that you simply couldn’t even actually discuss to,” Pearce added.

Pearce stepped away from Hollywood for 2 years and regrouped. When he determined to return, he pivoted full time to extra artistic indie initiatives just like the Western drama “The Proposition” and biographical movie “Manufacturing facility Lady,” wherein he performed Andy Warhol.

It wasn’t that Pearce was averse to creating Hollywood tentpoles, he simply wanted the fitting collaborators on them. The actor informed Self-importance Honest earlier this month that he met with Christopher Nolan across the identical time for a task in “The Status,” however a studio government at Warner Bros. allegedly had no real interest in working with Pearce.

“He spoke to me about roles just a few occasions through the years,” Pearce stated about working once more along with his “Memento” director. “However there was an government at Warner Bros. who fairly overtly stated to my agent, ‘I don’t get Man Pearce. I’m by no means going to get Man Pearce. I’m by no means going to make use of Man Pearce.’ So, in a method, that’s good to know. I imply, honest sufficient; there are some actors I don’t get. However it meant I may by no means work with Chris.”

Pearce stated this explicit Warner Bros. government “simply didn’t imagine in me as an actor.” Maybe that government is having a change of coronary heart now all these years later. Pearce is at present a frontrunner to land an Oscar nomination within the supporting actor class for his position in A24’s “The Brutalist,” in theaters Dec. 20.