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    Gary Oldman Admits to Be Uneasy With His Lack of Disguise in 'Mank'

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    In the David Fincher-directed movie, the ‘Darkest Hour’ star takes on the role of Herman J. Mankiewicz, who was tasked with revamping the script for Orson Welles’ iconic 1941 film ‘Citizen Kane’.

    Dec 28, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Gary Oldman was “uneasy” at his lack of a disguise to portray Hollywood screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, because he had become so comfortable hiding behind prosthetics to play real people.
    The Brit portrays the writer tasked with revamping the script for Orson Welles’ iconic 1941 film “Citizen Kane” in new biopic “Mank”, but he wasn’t keen on director David Fincher’s idea to forgo heavy makeup and prosthetics, which Oldman wanted to use to make him look more like the titular character.
    “I am partial to a disguise. I like to hide. And David wanted no veil between me and the audience,” Oldman tells The Associated Press.
    “He said, ‘I want you as naked as you’ve ever been.’ It wasn’t that I resisted that. I was just a little uneasy with it at first.”

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    The movie chronicles the tumultuous development of “Citizen Kane”, and co-stars Amanda Seyfried as actress Marion Davies, and Charles Dance as her lover and media magnate, William Randolph Hearst.
    In a separate interview, actor Ferdinand Kingsley said that director David Fincher asked him and Oldman to do one scene nearly 50 times for the movie. “He’s intensive insofar as he doesn’t take his foot off the gas. You spend very little time not acting, not doing a take,” said Kingsley. “The turnarounds take about 90 seconds. The crew are military, so almost all the time on set is spent doing takes and you do a lot. You do 30, 40, 50, 60 takes a shot.”
    As for his personal best for takes was during filming, Kingsley mentioned one scene with Oldman. “Gary and I did one shot 40-something, 50-ish times. I think the record on the shoot was either 74 or 78 and that was a scene with Gary, Tom Pelphrey, and Arliss Howard in a walking and talking scene. So they all got blisters.”
    “They’re walking around the MGM studio lot and it’s a brilliant shot. I think David [Fincher] said his record is 104 takes. When I asked if we were going to beat that he swore at me. That was when he filmed Panic Room and he said it was a stunt. I can’t imagine what it was like,” he added.

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      Gary Oldman Named Defendant in Lawsuit Over 'Darkest Hour'

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      In the legal papers, a History Channel writer, known as Mr. Kaplan, claims parts of screenwriter Anthony McCarten’s script for the 2017 film about Winston Churchill are very similar to his own.
      Sep 22, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Gary Oldman, his manager, and executives at NBCUniversal have been sued by a writer who claims they ripped off his script for 2017 film “Darkest Hour”.
      Oldman won a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Britain’s wartime leader Winston Churchill in the film, and now he has been named among the defendants in a suit filed by a History Channel writer, known as Mr. Kaplan, who claims parts of Anthony McCarten’s script are very similar to his own.
      In legal papers obtained by Deadline on Monday, September 21, the plaintiff’s lawyers claim their client spent years “developing, writing and refining” his script for “Churchill”.

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      “Several versions of the script for ‘Churchill’ were distributed to members of film industry in Los Angeles County, California,” the detailed breach of implied contract action reads. “It was understood by members of the film industry that Mr. Kaplan had created a script for a film about Winston Churchill and was planning on turning that script into a feature film.
      “Defendants’ wrongful conduct includes using numerous specific elements and ideas from Mr. Kaplan’s Churchill script for their own film, ‘Darkest Hour’.”
      The lawyers are chasing an injunction on the film and seeking a wide range of damages, including all the money the defendants made from the movie, insisting they had access to “three ‘Churchill’ scripts prepared by Mr. Kaplan,” dating from May 2013 to December 2014.
      The lawyers have also listed the alleged instances of similarity between the scripts for “Darkest Hour” and “Churchill”.

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      'Dracula' Director Admits to Ordering Gary Oldman to Whisper 'Evil' Words to Winona Ryder

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      Francis Ford Coppola admits to telling Gary Oldman to whisper ‘evil and horrific’ words in Winona Ryder’s ear during a scene but denies making such demands on Keanu Reeves.
      Jun 26, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Francis Ford Coppola has denied he ordered Keanu Reeves to insult co-star Winona Ryder on the set of “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” – to make her cry on cue.
      The “Stranger Things” star made the claim during a recent Sunday Times interview, insisting her leading man refused his director’s demands, but Coppola has fired back, admitting he asked Gary Oldman to whisper “evil and horrific” words in her ear, but he never made such demands on Keanu, who played lawyer Jonathan Harker in the 1992 movie.
      The 81-year-old filmmaker has also dismissed Ryder’s claims he called her “a wh*re” in an effort to make her cry during one scene, telling People, “While I think Winona is a wonderful actor, the incident she described is not how it happened, and shouting or abusing people isn’t something I do as a person or as a filmmaker.”
      “In this situation, which I remember clearly, I instructed Gary Oldman – in character as Dracula – to whisper improvised words to her and the other characters, making them as horrific and evil as he could. I don’t know what was said, but improvisation is a common filmmaking practice.”
      Ryder’s memory has also been questioned by Mel Gibson’s representative, who has denied her claims the “Braveheart” star upset her by using a derogatory term for Jews at a Hollywood party.
      The actress recalled the incident in the same Sunday Times interview and alleged Gibson referred to her as an “oven dodger.”
      “We were at a crowded party with one of my good friends, and Mel Gibson was smoking a cigar, and we’re all talking and he said to my friend, who’s gay, ‘Oh wait, am I gonna get AIDS?’ ” Ryder told the newspaper. “And then something came up about Jews, and he said, ‘You’re not an oven dodger, are you?’ ”
      Gibson’s rep has responded, stating, “This is 100 per cent untrue. She lied about it over a decade ago, when she talked to the press, and she’s lying about it now. Also, she lied about him trying to apologise to her back then. He did reach out to her, many years ago, to confront her about her lies, and she refused to address it with him.”

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