Gary Oldman played a series of villains before landing the role of James Gordon in Batman Begins. But he was originally approached to play a different character.

“I’m in a very good place at the moment, and a lot of that is to do with sobriety,” Oldman, 67, began. “It’s been 28 years.

For actor Gary Oldman, who played Sergeant Jim Gordon, one of the few good cops in Gotham City, the obvious inspiration was Year One. The four-part origin story introduced a younger, red-haired ...

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Gary Oldman used to be Hollywood’s go-to villain. Now he’s better known for playing good guys, like Sirius Black in the Harry Potter films and—as fanboys well know—Jim Gordon, the beloved ...

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Oldman, who played detective James “Jim” Gordon in Nolan’s Batman trilogy, starred as U.S. president Harry S. Truman in the director’s Oscar-winning drama.

Many of Oldman's best roles don’t look that much like the guy you see giving interviews. Jim Gordon is one who probably looks more like Gary Oldman looks off the set than others he has played.

But Oldman confided that playing someone so good was harder than it looked. “The good guy, the incorruptible, straight as an arrow Jim Gordon,” Oldman once reflected on BBC Radio 1.