“I was trying to do a flippant attitude but it was all wrong,” Pearce said of his performance as Leonard. “John Gielgud once said, ‘You can be good in a good movie, good in a bad movie, bad in a bad movie, but never be bad in a good movie.’ Yet I watched Memento and realized I’m bad in a good movie. Fuck!”

Guy Pearce is known for his superlative performances in films, such as LA Confidential, The King's Speech, and last year's The Brutalist. However, the actor recently had a brutally honest take on his own performance as an amnesiac insurance investigator in Christopher Nolan's sophomore directorial,