Guy Pearce
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"Guy Edward Pearce" is an English-born Australian actor and musician, mainly known for his roles as Fernand Mondego in The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo_(2002_film)/The Count of Monte Cristo (2002), Mike Young (Neighbours)/Mike Young in the Australian television series Neighbours and films such as The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994), L.A. Confidential (film)/L.A. Confidential (1997), Memento (film)/Memento (2000), The King's Speech (2010), Lockout (film)/Lockout (2012), Prometheus (2012 film)/Prometheus (2012), and Iron Man 3 (2013). He has won an Emmy Award and received nominations for Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and Saturn Awards.

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I have real dilemmas at times in trying to understand what I really think about the things that are in films and how people respond to them. I flip back and forth from going, "It's a slice of life. This happens in life. A film is an artistic venture. It's expressing life, so why not?"

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I'll have a different answer tomorrow that I do today.

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The good thing is, really, if I'm to do a role where I want to put some muscle on, it doesn't take long back at the gym, because of muscle memory. It doesn't take long to go, "Okay, we're back!"

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There's a bunch of different people that I utilize when we record at home. There's a girl that I'll play with more regularly than anybody else, I suppose. Whenever I go home, she and I try to go and do some little gigs around the place, just the two of us. So, no, I'm not really in a band.

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Ah, we tend to do a lot of that stuff in Australia. We don't really have the money to get anyone else to do it. "We can't afford a stuntman today, so you'll be jumping onto the train." "Right, okay."

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If I had to choose between a good Australian film and a good international film, I'd definitely choose the good Australian film.

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Sometimes I'll go for something more because of the story, or more because of the director. But, generally, I have to feel like it's something that I have a real sympathy for - a person that I can completely go, "Oh, wow, oh, I'm there." Otherwise I don't feel like I will be able to pull it off at all.

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