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Why Gary Oldman Opted To Not Use His Legendary Chameleon Skills In ‘Mank’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Gary Oldman is widely
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Speaker 1: regarded as one of the biggest chameleons in acting. He's
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Speaker 1: played and looked like everybody from sex Pistols Said Vicious
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Speaker 1: to Lee Harvey Oswald and JFK to Dracula. But in
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Speaker 1: his latest role, Netflix period piece Mank, he plays real
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Speaker 1: life Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman j Megowit and looks nothing
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Speaker 1: like the actual guy. The truth is Gary was more
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Speaker 1: than willing to go through his regular transformation, even Gaine
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Speaker 1: White pluck his hairline and we're prosthetics, but director David
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Speaker 1: Fincher wasn't interested. He tells Variety. I told him, no,
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Speaker 1: we've got to watch you be this guy, and they're
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Speaker 1: coming nothing artificial between the audience and you. I need
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Speaker 1: somebody who walks into a room and everyone would say
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Speaker 1: that's the guy. You need an actor's actor. If you're
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Speaker 1: casting based on heightened hairline, you're missing the point. Clearly,
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Speaker 1: Gary didn't need any prosthetics to own the character. Because
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Speaker 1: he's widely considered to be a frontrunner for his Best
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Speaker 1: Actor Oscar nomination, mank hits Netflix the severer fourth that's
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Speaker 1: direct from Hollywood,