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REPORTER 1: Hello, Gary.
Right here.
Right here in the-- to your left.
Hi.
REPORTER 1: First, congratulations.
Thank you. REPORTER 1: Excellent role.
I know so many characters you play that you've
got to build a back story to.
But Winston Churchill, having so much written about him,
so many quotes, do you feel like that--
did you pull from anything in particular that was
text from him or stuff that--
to build this character?
Or how was that different than playing characters
that are more created then?
Well, there's obviously--
the material on Churchill is voluminous.
I mean, I think there's 800 books
that were written about him.
He wrote 50.
And you can't-- there is--
I mean, I'm still reading them.
So I mean, this is going to be, I
would imagine my curiosity about him is a lifelong journey.
But what I-- the real key to him, there's so much
you can get from the written material.
But at some point, it--
the intellect, the intellectual side of it has to stop.
And you have to somehow kind of take all of that
and metabolize it and make it into a living,
walking, breathing person.
The big help to me was the footage of him at this time.
And the revelation to me was that he--
just the energy and the dynamism of him
was just so extraordinary.
So I sort of--
I started with this.
You might say, I started outside in.
And I tried to get sort of the physicality and the walk.
And then that gives you clues.
But I was lucky that I had some Churchill
scholars who could direct me to certain reading material.
You know, you've got--
I had a long time.
But there's a lot of books.
And so it was handy to have someone
sort of guide me, to cherry pick, you know, the prime ones.
REPORTER 2: Hi.
Melody Waintal from [INAUDIBLE].
Hello.
REPORTER 2: Could you share your story
on how you became an actor and what it meant to be
a young actor as an Oldman?
And the last bit was-- what it--
REPORTER 2: What it meant to you to be
a young actor as an Oldman.
Well, I--
I saw-- I was around 14.
And I saw the performance.
There was a rerun of a Malcolm McDowell film.
I don't even know if it--
I haven't seen it for so many years.
And I wouldn't even know if it would hold up.
But it was Bryan Forbes movie, called--
in England, we called it "The Raging Moon."
And there was something quite remarkable about Malcolm's--
there was a sort of wonderful menace and vulnerability to him
that were just sort of happening at the same time.
And I was completely captivated by that grin
and those huge, huge, big blue eyes.
And it was like a light-- it was like a lightning ball
or a light-- it was like the lights
in the room got brighter.
I thought there and then that I want to do that,
and that's what I want to do for a living.
And I have been truly very, very lucky and very blessed.
It's been-- it's had its ups--
it's had its ups and downs, its hills and valleys.
But it has been quite a remarkable journey.
If I would-- young actors, some young actors, not all of them,
but we're in a sort of time where a generation wants
to get everything instantly.
And they want to take, you know, four weeks of acting school,
and then they've got it.
You know?
Or they think they've got it.
And there's no substitute for the work.
You've got to really, I think, earn your dues,
put the work in.
REPORTER 3: Right here in front to your left,
Russ from "Hollywood Life."
You mentioned ups and downs.
But in the wake of all this award success,
how do you feel that your standing in Hollywood
has changed, if at all, in the last couple of months?
I mean, we have--
you have your moment in the sun.
Careers, there's no guarantee that you're
just going to keep--
there's no guarantee you're going to keep working.
You know, I could--
you know, god forbid, I could get sick.
I could get hit by a car.
There's no-- we have today.
But there's no guarantee that we're going to get tomorrow.
And so my feeling is, enjoy the moment in the sun.
And it will eclipse.
It always does.
And then it will be--
it will be someone-- it'll be someone else
standing up here next year.
So I'm enjoying it.
Thank you. Yeah.
REPORTER 4: [INAUDIBLE]
Yeah.
Thank you.