Arts Interview: Playing the wild Rover

Guy Pearce has a wonderful habit of making himself look terrible on screen. Think of all those tattoos up his arms and across his torso in Memento. Or that Razorlight video for Before I Fall To Pieces, where he came on like a slobbish superhero, munching pizza with rotten teeth. Or his cameo as a bedraggled hobo in The Road. “I’m certainly not doing what I can to pretty myself up,” he says. ...