On the floor, there’s so much to love about “Sid And Nancy.” An early instance of Roger Deakins’ cinematography, the biopic options standout performances from Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious and Chloe Webb as Nancy Spungen. Cox additionally manages to wring some sympathy for Vicious and his doomed relationship out of the entire thing — regardless of the very fact the punk legend was, by most accounts, a fairly repulsive man and questions stay about his involvement in Spungen’s loss of life.

However for those who ask Oldman, none of that issues as a result of he cannot even watch the movie with out wincing. Because the actor instructed The Hollywood Reporter, earlier than he’d accepted the position, he noticed punk and Vicious’ life as, “quite a lot of noise” and was involved about, “who would see ‘Sid and Nancy?” However past that, the Oscar winner appears to treat the entire thing as a few of his worst on-screen work, including, “I do not suppose I am excellent in it.”

It would not be the primary time he’d expressed his distaste for the movie. In a 2016 interview, he stated:

“If [‘Sid And Nancy’] comes on TV and I am channel browsing and I see a second of it I wish to simply throw the tv out the window. I had little interest in the Intercourse Pistols. I checked out it and thought, ‘Why? Why would you make a film about these individuals?’ But it surely’s bought its charms, [there’s] nice issues in it. It is Roger Deakins cinematography, certainly one of his early movies. But it surely’s simply previous stuff now, to me.”

Evidently, Oldman will not be watching the upcoming Hulu retelling of the Intercourse Pistols story. However there’s extra to Oldman’s view of “Sid And Nancy” than his disinterest in punk.