A Sensitive Guy
Guy Pearce has never followed the Hollywood pack… and with his first Oscar nomination, that canny move has paid off. Here, he tells what attracted him to his intriguing new role
Author: GILL PRINGLE
Guy Pearce has never followed the Hollywood pack… and with his first Oscar nomination, that canny move has paid off. Here, he tells what attracted him to his intriguing new role
In the late 1980s, you couldn’t turn anywhere without seeing or hearing Neighbours’ perky trio Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Guy Pearce. The Aussie soap stars earned a huge part of our hearts, but if you’d asked anyone back then which of the inhabitants of Ramsay Street would stay the course and gain an Oscar nomination, chances are that Guy might not have been top of the list. A former child actor, he achieved overnight stardom as Mike Young in Neighbours, going on to appear in 476 episodes ...