At the last moment the article was held, not because of any particular lack of enthusiasm for it, or misgivings about it, but because when there are too many stories competing for space in a magazine like GQ, the most vulnerable are usually those which are the least topical. It was originally intended to appear in the January 2010 print issue of GQ and was actually prepared for publication in that issue-not only written but laid out on the page, designed, and researched. The planned article, taking in the full rich sweep of his life and career, would be an antidote to that. If you’d like to begin reading it right now, please scroll down to "The 2009 Article." But if you’d prefer to know why you’re only getting a chance to see this story now-and why Oldman’s representatives somehow became convinced that it was a hit piece-read on.Īs I remember it, the discussions in the GQ office leading up to this article being commissioned revolved around a sense that Gary Oldman was one of the greatest actors of his generation but one that had somehow been forgotten about, and that while others less deserving were feted and celebrated, he seemed to be underappreciated. The profile of Gary Oldman that appears below was reported and written in the fall of 2009.
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