Gary Oldman gave us one of his most memorable performances as Sirius Black in Harry Potter movies, but he wasn’t the biggest fan of his work in this franchise. The Oscar-winning actor recently said he gave a “mediocre” performance as Sirius Black and explained why he feels this way.
Oldman was promoting his Apple TV+ spy show Slow Horses during a recent interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, and the host Josh Horowitz asked him how he felt about his portrayal of Harry Potter’s godfather Sirius Black in this magical movie franchise.
“I think my work is mediocre in it. No, I do. Maybe if I had read the books like Alan [Rickman, who played Professor Snape], if I had got ahead of the curve, if I had known what’s coming, I honestly think I would have played it differently,” explained Oldman.
The Oscar-winner also added that he’s his own biggest critic and that he never thinks he’s amazing in anything because he wants “to make the next thing better.” He previously told Drew Barrymore that the roles in the Harry Potter and The Dark Knight franchise saved him because he could “do the least amount of work for the most amount of money and then be home with the kids.”
Oldman made his debut as Sirius Black in the third film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, directed by Alfonso Cuarón, and reprised it in two more sequels.
