"Heres…… Jokey?"
I ran across an article today that was just too ridiculous to ignore.
It was an interview by MovieWeb with some cast members of TDK andwhat I specifically snorted over was the comments from Gary Oldman:
“While none of us in attendance really wanted to dwell on the death of Heath Ledger, Oldman offered his thoughts on the actor’s portrayal of the Joker, calling it the scariest on-screen performance he’s ever seen.
He even went on to compare it to his own work as Sirius Black, saying, ‘Sirius Black might scare six year olds, but he doesn’t scare nine year olds. It’s hard to scare kids these days. Heath does. He scares everybody. This is one of the most frightening performances I have ever seen put on film.’ ”
Uhhh… excuse me? I mean, Gary Oldman is an excellent actor, but apparently he’s not such a great judge of the performances of others. “…scariest on-screen performance..ever”? Was he high on crack doing that interview? Or, like so many others, was he brown-nosing the broadly (yet distorted) accepted notion that Heath’s death somehow lifted this average performance somehow into the realm of excellence?
Here’s the link:
http://www.movieweb.com/news/18/29618.php
Filed under: Subpar Acting
