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Two years ago, British actor Gary Oldman found himself in Yorkshire for the wedding of his oldest son, Alfie.<\/p>\n
As Oldman\u2019s other sons, Gulliver and Charlie, were there too, along with his wife, Gisele Schmidt, and his stepson, William, Oldman thought it would be a lark to make the hour-long drive through the countryside to the York Theatre Royal, where he began his acting career in 1979.<\/p>\n
The boys were intrigued, as they had heard stories over the years. Before Oldman burst on the film scene in the 1980s playing punk rocker Sid Vicious in Sid & Nancy<\/em> and British playwright Joe Orton in Stephen Frears\u2019 Prick Up Your Ears<\/em>, he had turned heads in a run of plays throughout England.<\/p>\n Then he was, as he puts it, \u201ckidnapped by cinema\u201d. Wanting to see their father\u2019s career origins, the family piled into a couple of cars and headed out.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a lovely kind of homecoming, a debt paid, really,\u201d Oldman says.<\/p>\n Walking around York Theatre Royal, thinking he needed to pinch himself because, really, how could it be 45 years since he first took that stage, Oldman met Paul Crewes, the theatre\u2019s CEO.<\/p>\n \u201cDo you think you might want to ever return to the stage,\u201d Crewes asked Oldman, \u201cand if so, where might that be?\u201d Oldman thought for a moment and replied: \u201cI think I\u2019m standing on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.scmp.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two years ago, British actor Gary Oldman found himself in Yorkshire for the wedding of his oldest son, Alfie. As Oldman\u2019s other sons, Gulliver and Charlie, were there too, along with his wife, Gisele Schmidt, and his stepson, William, Oldman thought it would be a lark to make the hour-long drive through the countryside to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2448609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[25317,23898,348823,480868,357896,480869,25741,357052,480867,351777,356017,404043,342628,403504,394908],"class_list":["post-2448608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-apple-tv","tag-england","tag-gary-oldman","tag-gisele-schmidt","tag-jackson-lamb","tag-joe-orton","tag-london","tag-mick-herron","tag-paul-crewes","tag-royal-court-theatre","tag-samuel-beckett","tag-sid-vicious","tag-slow-horses","tag-york-theatre-royal","tag-yorkshire"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/\u2018Happier-than-Ive-ever-been-at-68-Gary-Oldman-is.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2448610,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448608\/revisions\/2448610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2448609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}