GUY PEARCE | ‘I’d rather go to the pub!’

Ian Horner
Updated July 23 2018 - 5:19am, first published July 21 2018 - 7:41am

Guy Pearce has bounced back.

The year 2015 was a bad one for him. And he brought that up at the start of this interview.

Unlike most movie stars, he’s not at all shy of bringing a bit of personal truth to the table.

But having written a whole album about his journey to hell and back that year, it actually was quite appropriate to talk about it.

Nevertheless, his candour and approachable demeanour, which this writer has encountered several times before, sets him apart from so many of his peers.

Then again, he was back here on home soil and relishing the chance to “slip back into” that Australian way of dropping airs and graces.

His new show The Innocents is coming up on Netflix, he’s currently on air on the ABC and iView in the second run at Jack Irish and he’s just launched his second music album, The Nomad, written and performed by him.

NOMADIC: "That chap on the cover was a bit lost in 2015." Picture: Frank Okenfels
NOMADIC: "That chap on the cover was a bit lost in 2015." Picture: Frank Okenfels

INTERVIEW

This new album is quite moody, not exactly happy. 

Ian Horner

Ian Horner

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Editor of Fairfield Champion and Liverpool Champion, in South-West Sydney.