Guy Pearce adopted a new outlook after feeling a ‘disconnect’ when making a 2002 flop ‘It was the first time I really felt that there was not just a disconnect, but a kind of greater power up there that you couldn’t even really talk to’.
Although the film, which also stars Jeremy Iron and Samantha Mumba, made more than $100m at the box office, it received mostly poor reviews and currently holds a rating of just 28 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes.
The 57-year-old, who is nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 2025 Goldeb Globes for his role in The Brutalist, was a rising star in Hollywood in the late Nineties and early Noughties thanks to roles in LA Confidential and Memento.
However, Pearce claims he had a bad experience when making the movie The Time Machine, a remake of a 1960 sci-fi classic inspired by HG Welles’ 1895 novel of the same name.
Australian actor Guy Pearce has opened up about how he felt after a 2002 film he starred in flopped, causing him to reassess his career.
