“Harry Potter” actor Gary Oldman revealed in a recent interview that he was not terribly impressed with his own performance in the popular film series, calling his acting “mediocre” and suggesting that he might have been better prepared for the role if he “had read the books” like some of his colleagues.
Oldman — who portrayed Harry’s godfather Sirius Black through several of the films — spoke with host Josh Horowitz on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, where he downplayed his own performance, but had nothing but the highest praise for the late actor Alan Rickman, who played the role of Severus Snape.
“I think my work is mediocre in it,” Oldman said of the series as a whole, but said that he might feel differently — or he might have approached his character differently — if he had taken the same steps to prepare that Rickman had going into the…
