"'I don't get Guy Pearce. I'm never going to get Guy Pearce. I'm never going to employ Guy Pearce.'"Despite their acclaimed collaboration on Memento, Guy Pearce hasn't starred in any Christopher Nolan projects since — and he thinks one man is to blame.

Written and directed by Nolan, Memento stars Pearce as Leonard, a man struggling with short-term memory loss while trying to track down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The film also starred Carrie-Anne Moss and Joe Pantoliano.

Pearce, who currently co-stars in The Brutalist, says a Warner Bros. exec blocked him from reuniting with his Memento director. Photo: Guy Pearce in The Brutalist (Credit: A24) Christopher Nolan is known for sticking with actors he likes,

Guy Pearce revealed in a new interview with Vanity Fair that he was blocked from starring in Christopher Nolan movies after 2000’s “Memento” because a Warner Bros. executive just didn’t like his acting.

Clearly, that hater WB exec did not much appreciate Pearce’s work in Memento. And who knows where that person is today, or whether they’re still blocking Pearce’s opportunities. We do know that Christopher Nolan is not still at Warner Bros., so perhaps, as Pearce put it to jokingly end the VF interview, “now my time has come!”

During an interview, Guy Pearce revealed why he and Christopher Nolan haven't collaborated since their very first film, Memento.

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"There was an executive at Warner Bros. who quite openly said to my agent, ‘I don't get Guy Pearce. I'm never going to get Guy Pearce. I'm never going to employ Guy Pearce.'"

It turns out there's a specific reason Christopher Nolan and Guy Pearce haven't collaborated since making Memento, and it's not Nolan's doing.

A similar instance took place with Guy Pearce, who claims a Warner Bros. executive was the reason that ended his collaboration with Christopher Nolan after Memento. Here is how. Gur Pearce's future with Christopher Nolan went for a no show for Warner Bros.