Gary Oldman got tired of playing the villain.
While discussing his performance as Dr Zachary Smith in “Lost in Space” during a recent episode of Variety“Know their lines,” Oldman said there was a moment in his career when he was the choice for the casting directors who needed a villain.
“I have a kind of typaste for a while,” said Oldman. “I became a bit like the” Back-A-Villain “poster. In a way, “Oh, we need a villain and we will get Gary.” I don’t know how it happened, but it happened.
Oldman then compared the character of Dr. Zachary Smith to another of his roles of emblematic bad guys, Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg of “The Fifth Element”.
“This in particular, like” The Fifth Element “, a bit like” Lost in Space “, they are comic bad guys,” he said. “”[‘Lost in Space’] was fun, super casting. I thought history was a lot to do. It was a lot of movie in two hours. But [Dr. Zachary Smith] was fun to play because she is a villain with a tongue in the cheek or a little sparkling in the eyes.
One of the first great passengers of Oldman from the villain in Hero was when he joined the “Batman” trilogy of Christopher Nolan as Commissioner Gordon. David S. Goyer, who wrote “Batman Begins” and “The Dark Knight” for Nolan, recently recalled on the Podcast “Happy Sad Confused” that he was “very surprised” to hear Oldman had won the role, given his bad status.
“Now that I am a more experienced filmmaker, I realized that it is really exciting to launch against the type,” said Goyer. “It’s exciting for filmmakers, and it’s also exciting for actors.”
