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Guy Pearce says he was blocked from working with Christopher Nolan by Warner Bros

Memento actor says a studio executive told his agent ‘I’m never going to employ Guy Pearce’ and stopped him from appearing in Batman Begins and The Prestige

Guy Pearce has revealed that the reason he has not worked with Christopher Nolan since the 2000 film Memento is because he was repeatedly blocked by a Warner Bros executive who didn’t like his acting. The director ended his relationship with Warner Bros over a disagreement with its decision to simultaneously release films in theatres and on the streaming service HBO Max, a fate he did not want for his 2023 historical drama Oppenheimer. Nolan is working at Universal again on an as-yet-unnamed film coming out in 2026 that will star Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Zendaya, Charlize Theron and Anne Hathaway.

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