Gary Oldman: A Life In Pictures

Sunday 18 September

On Sunday 18 September 2010, actor Gary Oldman joined Francine Stock on stage at BAFTA's Princess Anne Theatre to be interviewed as part of the BAFTA: A Life in Pictures series.

Life in Pictures: Gary Oldman

(Picture: BAFTA / J. Simonds)
Life in Pictures: Gary Oldman

The audience wait for the event to start in BAFTA's Princess Anne Theatre. (Picture: BAFTA / J. Simonds)
Life in Pictures: Gary Oldman

"Acting in the movies was always something 'other' people did." (Picture: BAFTA / J. Simonds)
Life in Pictures: Gary Oldman

"It takes a great director to see and incorporate the little things which happen on set." (Picture: BAFTA / J. Simonds)
Life in Pictures: Gary Oldman

Oldman in conversation with Francine Stock (Picture: BAFTA / J. Simonds)
Life in Pictures: Gary Oldman

Writer and critic Francine Stock (Picture: BAFTA / J. Simonds)
Life in Pictures: Gary Oldman

On Ray Winstone in Nil by Mouth: "I wanted to cast someone who you really believed was a heavy drinker. Who filled the screen." (Picture: BAFTA / J. Simonds)
Life in Pictures: Gary Oldman

"Smiley is an outsider like King Lear or Hamlet. That's what makes him interesting. That's where the drama is." (Picture: BAFTA / J. Simonds)
Life in Pictures: Gary Oldman

"There was no hope for me at drama school. I've been at the mercy of what comes through the letter box." (Picture: BAFTA / J. Simonds)
Life in Pictures: Gary Oldman

Francine Stock (Picture: BAFTA / J. Simonds)
Life in Pictures: Gary Oldman

An audience member asks a question. (Picture: BAFTA / J. Simonds)
Life in Pictures: Gary Oldman

"My first audition at RADA was awful - I didn't get in." (Picture: BAFTA / J. Simonds)
Life in Pictures: Gary Oldman

Gary Oldman on Coppola and filming Dracula: "He want to make a love story not a horror movie." (Picture: BAFTA / J. Simonds)
Life in Pictures: Gary Oldman

Tomas Alfredson, in house during the event, describes Gary Oldman as 'the swiss army knife of actors'. (Picture: BAFTA / J. Simonds)