![]() ![]() ![]() This is an insight that a number of actors who play Churchill - who came to power in 1940 aged 65 - have missed, and who thus play him as a man in late middle age. He would skip around at 65 like a 30-year-old, he had a sparkle, the eyes were alive, he had a very sort of cherubic grin.’ ‘I went to the newsreel,’ he says, ‘and what I discovered was a man who had this very athletic tread. Oldman avoided this in Darkest Hour through research. He is therefore almost always left with either mere impersonation or caricature. We all have our own mind’s-eye view of what Churchill should look and sound like, and his personality was so strong and sui generis that it is almost impossible for an actor to impose himself on the role. The challenge in part was the physicality, because you’re playing someone whose silhouette is so iconic.’ ‘I thought that with some work I could approximate the voice. ‘I knew I didn’t look like him,’ Oldman has said. ![]() ![]() Gary Oldman has joined a long list of actors who have portrayed Winston Churchill - no fewer than 35 of them in movies and 28 on television. ![]()
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