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Anyone Wanna Buy Gary Oldman’s Tinker Tailor Glasses?

It’ll cost you, but hey! Good cause! “In conceiving the actor’s characterization of the iconic character, Mr. Oldman conferred with director Tomas Alfredson and costume designer Jacqueline Durran over just which would be the right pair of glasses for Smiley to wear throughout. He found the desired pair in the U.S. and brought them to England for filming there. The glasses up for auction are the ones that Smiley acquires and begins wearing in the film, after the prologue and flashbacks, for the duration of the 1970s-era story as he tracks a double agent compromising Britain’s highest espionage ranks.” [ Charitybuzz ]

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Anyone Wanna Buy Gary Oldman’s Tinker Tailor Glasses?

Gary Oldman on The Dark Knight Rises and Tinker, Tailor’s Master Spy Smiley: He’s ‘Like Jazz’

At the center of Tomas Alfredson’s marvelously taut espionage thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (based on the John Le Carré novel previously adapted into a celebrated 1979 British miniseries) is an unusually understated turn by Gary Oldman as George Smiley, a recently retired career spy of few words quietly trying to uncover a mole within British intelligence. Oldman acknowledges a departure of sorts from the wild, often manic characters he built much of his career on — Sid Vicious, Count Dracula, Beethoven, DEA agent Stansfield of Leon, to name a few. Some of Oldman’s best-known roles are, as he described to Movieline this week in Los Angeles, more rock ‘n’ roll. “Smiley,” he explained, “is jazz .”

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Gary Oldman on The Dark Knight Rises and Tinker, Tailor’s Master Spy Smiley: He’s ‘Like Jazz’

Is Gary Oldman Having a Moment?

As you saw in the underwhelming teaser trailer for The Dark Knight Rises , it wasn’t Christian Bale, Tom Hardy or Anne Hathaway who got a majority of the 90-second screen time — it was Gary Oldman. (And the disembodied voice of Liam Neeson.) Oldman’s wheezing and battered-looking Commissioner Gordon told an off-screen Batman about “evil” and all the other mumbo-jumbo that old wheezing men in hospital beds go on about, and basically stole the show. The renowned character actor is also front-and-center on the U.K. poster for Tinker Tailor Solider Spy , with a headshot usually reserved for A-listers like Will Smith or Russell Crowe. Which raises the question: Is Gary Oldman having a moment?

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Is Gary Oldman Having a Moment?