- Gary Oldman is not crazy about his work in "Harry Potter."
- He said his performance as Sirius Black is "mediocre."
Oscar winner Gary Oldman has graced the screen for decades delivering memorable performances from Dracula to Winston Churchill. And it should come as no surprise that the character he's asked about most frequently is his portrayal of Sirius Black in the "Harry Potter" franchise.
However, what will come as a surprise is that the actor thinks his performance as Black is no good.
"I think my work is mediocre in it," Oldman recently told "Happy Sad Confused" host Josh Horowitz (at the 15 minute mark), to the host's shock. "No, I do. Maybe if I had read the books like Alan [Rickman], if I had got ahead of the curve, if I had known what's coming, I honestly think I would have played it differently."
Oldman went on to say that for "tons" of his roles over his career he'd "put it on a fire and burn it." That even includes his amazing performance as Count Dracula in Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 epic "Bram Stoker's Dracula," where he slept in a coffin every night during the making of the movie.
"I'm not crazy about it," he told Horowitz of his performance in the movie.
"It's like anything," Oldman continued. "If I sat and watched myself in something and said, 'My god, I'm amazing,' that would be a very sad day, because you want to make the next thing better."
Appearing on "The Drew Barrymore Show" earlier in December, the 65-year-old actor said starring in franchises like "Harry Potter" and "The Dark Knight" "saved" him when he became a single father, because they allowed him to be able to spend more time with his children.
"Thank God for 'Harry Potter,'" he told Barrymore. "I tell you, the two — 'Batman' and 'Harry Potter' — really, they saved me, because it meant that I could do the least amount of work for the most amount of money and then be home with the kids."
Oldman played Black in "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," "Goblet of Fire," "Order of the Phoenix," and "Deathly Hallows, Part 2."
He played Jim Gordon in Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight Trilogy."