The Perfect Patient

Newcastle Herald

Thursday February 15, 2001

according to Chad Watson & Linda Barnier

IT took several hours every day to transform Gary Oldman into a faceless victim of Dr Hannibal Lecter for the movie thriller Hannibal.

Oldman sat for five hours a day having makeup and prosthetics put on him for the role of multimillionaire Mason Verger, and another hour and a half to take it all off. But the actor described the experience as being `strangely uh, liberating'.

`You would think that you would be restricted with all of that stuff,' he says. `But if anyone's worn a mask at a Halloween party, you feel uninhibited, like no-one can see you.

`I have patience. Some actors can't bear it.'