British actor Gary Oldman, who plays a washed-up alcoholic writer in the new Cannes film “Parthenope,”said Wednesday he is celebrating 27 years sober.
The Italian coming-of-age drama ‘Parthenope,’ inspired by mythology, traces a beautiful young woman as she drifts through Naples and Capri. Gary Oldman appears briefly as famed novelist John Cheever, who in real life struggled with severe alcoholism — a part that Oldman said was not much of a stretch. ‘I just celebrated 27 years of sobriety,’ he reveals.
“I’ve been there. I know what that means. So coming to this role, there were things that I just instinctively understood. “When Paolo said to me, ‘I want you to play this sad, melancholic, drunken poet,’ I went, ‘Yeah, I kind of know what that is!’” In the film, Cheever strikes up a bond with Parthenope, who adores the author’s books but has grown disenchanted with her life.
“Had I known from the very beginning — if I had read the five books and I had seen the arc of the character — I may have approached it differently,” he said. “I may have looked at it differently and I may have painted in a different color.” Besides, Oldman said, actors are “always hyper-critical” of their own work. “If I watched a performance of myself and thought ‘My god, I’m fantastic in this,’ that would be a sad day. Because my best work is next year.
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