Page 1 of 3 Gary Oldman was the angry young man of British film who cornered the market in cinema psychos. Now, as he approaches his 50th birthday, he is taking his life and work a little easier, preferring to be at home with his sons to hanging out at premieres and parties. Craig McLean meets him on the eve of his third Harry Potter outing In pictures: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Watch the trailer for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix In a drowsy London hotel room, from behind a bushy policeman's moustache, a quiet, reserved Gary Oldman is considering his reputation as - his words - 'Crazy-Scary-Gary'.
I don t go to premieres. I don t go to parties. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids' That is: Gary Oldman, brilliant portrayer of skinheads, punks, vampires, assassins, psycho-cops, psycho-pimps, psycho-psychos.
The actor fundamental to the success and magic of Mike Leigh's Meantime, Stephen Frears's Prick Up Your Ears, Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy, Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, Oliver Stone's JFK, Luc Besson's Leon, Tony Scott's True Romance and Alan Clarke's The Firm. The writer-director whose gritty south-east London upbringing formed the backdrop to 1997's Nil by Mouth: a semi-autobiographical tale of alcoholism, drugs, criminality, wife-beating and the misery man hands on to man. The 'bad boy' who, almost as soon as his career started, escaped Britain for high times in New York and Los Angeles.
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