Guy Pearce ‘Wanted to Punch’ a ‘Snobby Actress’ for Mocking His Soap Opera Career to His Face: ‘Five Years Later, I Saw Her on Some S— Ad on TV’
Guy Pearce says fellow industry members piled on him for getting his start as a soap opera actor on Australia's "Neighbours."
Guy Pearce recently spoke to The Times as part of his Oscar campaign for “The Brutalist” and remembered getting piled on by members of the industry due to his acting start on the popular Australian soap opera “Neighbours.” Pearce was a cast member from 1986 to 1989.
“I have many feelings about that show,” Pearce said. “In the old days you were either a theater actor or a film actor, and if you got stuck in a soap you were the lowest of the low — but what an opportunity. I had no clue what I was doing but learnt a lot. When young actors ask me for advice, I shrug and say, ‘Get lucky?’ Because I got lucky.
“That said, it really was frowned upon,” Pearce added of “Neighbours,” which also served as a launching pad for talents like Kylie Minogue and Margot Robbie. “I did a play a year after I left and this snobby actress said, ‘How could you even do that?’ I wanted to punch her! Now, obviously, I didn’t punch her. But it was such a horrible attitude. And then, five years later, I saw her on some shit ad on TV. I so wanted to go and find her and say, ‘OK…’”
Popular on VarietyPearce is clearly proud of his soap opera roots, as he made a surprise return to “Neighbours” in 2022 for its series finale in Australia. Perhaps less memorable was a run of acting jobs he did in the late 2010s for the sole purpose of making money amid his divorce. Pearce separated from Kate Mestitz, his wife of 18 years, in 2015.
“Yeah — I did a bunch of shit during my divorce because I needed the money,” Pearce admitted. “It was my divorce period, 2016, ’17 and ’18. I’d read scripts thinking, no, this is pretty good actually, I could do this … But a year earlier I would have said no. You’re forced to expand your tolerance of things when you need dough, so it was a real relief once I paid off my divorce. But it blurred my vision. I’d read something that I felt was good and then question myself. Is it good? Or just in the camp of paying off my divorce?”
Pearce is currently earning career-best reviews for “The Brutalist,” which earned him an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. Head over to The Times’ website to read the actor’s latest profile in its entirety.
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