Guy Pearce revealed he is recovering from a chest infection as he walked the red carpet at the 2025 Oscars on Sunday night.
The Australian actor, who has been nominated for the first time for his role in The Brutalist, explained he has lost his voice as he arrived to the star-studded event.
‘I’m a little husky voiced at the moment… I actually had a chest infection about two weeks ago,’ he told The Morning Show’s Mylee Hogan.
‘And then it turned into this terrible cough which has now turned into losing my voice. It’s like the timing couldn’t have been better.’
Guy also discussed the moment he found out he had been nominated for an Oscar after landing in Melbourne.
‘I landed and turned my phone on and the nominations had come through,’ he said.
Guy Pearce revealed he is recovering from an illness as he walked the red carpet at the 2025 Oscars on Sunday night
‘So I was trying to get through immigration and customs with people texting me about this Oscar nomination.’
It comes after Guy previously revealed his surprising reaction to receiving a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his work on The Brutalist.
The Australian actor admitted he thought the ceremony sometimes got it wrong when it came to picking the winners, and wasn’t sure if his work on the period drama was worthy.
‘I am a bit confused, I suppose. I’ve seen people win awards and I thought, “really?”‘ Guy told The Courier Mail in January.
‘Then I’ve seen other people not win awards and gone, “really?” So I don’t know what I think about it all to be honest.
‘I’m sure if I was to win an award I’d go, “Wow. That was great, pretty cool”.
‘I think as long as I felt like what I’d done was worthy of it. I won an award once and I felt pretty positive about it because I felt like I created a character that was pretty good.’
Guy stars alongside Adrien Brody, Felicity Martin and Taylor Swift’s ex-boyfriend Joe Alwyn in the 2024 movie which explores people working towards the American dream in post-WWII America.
‘I’m a little husky voiced at the moment… I actually had a chest infection about two weeks ago,’ he told Mylee Hogan on The Morning Show
Guy plays an American industrialist who employs Adrien Brody’s lead character, a Hungarian Jewish architect who survived the Holocaust.
The film was released in the US in January and will be out in Australian cinemas later this year.
Guy is one of Australia’s most respected actors and he recently revealed the startling reason he missed out on a role in Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies – despite being friends with the director.
The acclaimed trilogy began with the 2005 release Batman Begins, starring Christian Bale as the title character opposite Liam Neeson as the villain Ra’s Al Ghul.
Pearce had previously played the lead role of an amnesiac in Nolan’s 2001 neo-noir picture Memento, alongside The Matrix bombshell Carrie-Anne Moss.
When the time came to cast Batman Begins, Nolan thought highly enough of Pearce to fly him out to London to read for Ra’s Al Ghul.
However, Guy was ultimately denied the role by circumstances out his control – and has in fact never worked with Nolan since then.
