It’s hard to pick a favourite Guy Pearce role over his nearly 40-year career, but let’s try. Perhaps it’s drag queen Felicia Jollygoodfellow in his 1994 breakout Australian movie The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, or Detective Exley in 1997’s LA Confidential.
Maybe you prefer your Pearce going backwards in Christopher Nolan’s Memento; time-travelling back to 1899 in an adaptation of HG Wells’s The Time Machine; at sea in The Count of Monte Cristo; or all-too-briefly at war in The Hurt Locker. He’s also done royal drama (The King’s Speech, Mary Queen of Scots) and he’s done biopics (Andy Warhol in Factory Girl and Harry Houdini in Death Defying Acts). He’s been into space (Prometheus and Alien: Covenant) and he’s breathed fire (Iron Man 3).
