Gary Oldman has hinted that he could be playing Winston Churchill again in a possible Darkest Hour sequel.
He is the hot favourite to win Best Actor at this weekend's Academy Awards – which would be his first win – and has spoken to The Hollywood Reporter about a follow-up to Joe Wright's wartime biopic.
"There could be [a sequel] because at the end of the war, there's the summit with Stalin and [Roosevelt]. Roosevelt's a great character; he's on his way out. So maybe," Oldman explained, referring to the Yalta Conference in 1945, which aimed at developing a post-war peace.
For now though, he's just happy to have "a break from the make-up chair" after the extensive work required to shoot Darkest Hour.
A sequel is not the only way that Oldman could reprise his role as Britain's famous cigar-chomping prime minister, either, as he also spoke about how he was adapting a short story Churchill had written in 1947 called The Dream.
"It's [about] the ghost of his father, Randolph, who visits him in his studio at Chartwell. It's two people, not an expensive thing to do. It might be something I'll try and get on its feet. I long to go back [to the stage]. It'll be quite terrifying, I'm sure, after 20 years," he noted.
Following his win at the Golden Globes, Oldman also won Best Male Actor at the Screen Actors Guild Awards last month and at this month's BAFTAs, meaning it would be a massive upset to see anyone else win at the Oscars.
Decide for yourself if he deserves it as Darkest Hour is still in cinemas.
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