Guy Pearce reveals why he wouldn’t star on classic Aussie film again if it were made today

Aussie actor Guy Pearce reveals why he wouldn’t star in this critically acclaimed Aussie film again if it were made today.

Guy Pearce doesn’t think he would be cast in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert if it were made today.

The 1994 movie follows two drag queens played by Hugo Weaving and Pearce and a transgender woman played by Terence Stamp as they traverse across the Australian Outback.

Pearce who played Adam Whitely, a flamboyant drag queen who performed under the name Felicia Jollygoodfellow, won rave reviews for the role three decades ago.

From left to right: Guy Pearce, Terence Stamp and Hugo Weaving starred in The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert.

Stamp, Pearce and Weaving portrayed one transgender woman and two drag queens in the 1994 movie.

“I probably wouldn’t get cast now in the movie just because there’s a big push to only cast people with the same sexual orientation,” he told Page Six exclusively at the Gotham Awards on Monday.

The Aussie actor, 57, admitted he has complicated feelings about it.

“I always think [it] is a little weird because one’s sexual orientation should be private,” he opined. “So I don’t know why that comes into play when it comes to casting.”

“But that said, I understand that, you know, people feel that they need their own kind represented.”

Pearce won rave reviews for his role as Adam Whitely, aka Felicia Jollygoodfellow.

Nevertheless, the Memento star added, “I’m an actor and we play all kinds of people. Otherwise, I could only play bogans from Geelong.”

When Page Six asked Pearce to translate “bogan” for an American audience, he explained that “it’s like white trash.”

Perhaps in keeping with his self-appointed “bogan” title, Pearce joked that he was attending the Gotham Awards by accident.

The Aussie actor says he probably wouldn’t be cast in the film today. Picture: Theo Wargo/Getty Images

“I was just walking by and someone said, ‘There’s like a film thing going on, you should come in,’ and I was wearing a nice suit, so I came in.

“Otherwise I would have just been at Macca’s down the road,” he cheekily added.

The L.A. Confidential star was at the starry event to help support the The Brutalist, which has been winning rave reviews and is tipped to garner a slew of Oscar nominations.

The sweeping historical drama stars Adrien Brody as a Hungarian-born Jewish architect who survives the Holocaust and emigrates to the United States.

This article originally appeared in Page Six and was reproduced with permission

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