The famous actor Gary Oldman, known for roles in movies Francis Ford Coppola’s “Dracula”, “Sid and Nancy” and “Darkest Hour”, was a good friend of David Bowie. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter Oldman talked about his late friend and said the “world’s gone to shit” since he passed away.
Gary Oldman says the world fall apart since David Bowie died
To push the boat out. David always said, “When you’re wading out into the water and you can feel the sand beneath your feet, you feel safe and calm. But if you just go a little bit farther where your feet don’t quite touch the bottom, you’ll be in a place where you can do your best work.”
“We laughed a lot — a lot. He was very, very, very funny, David. And we sort of had similar kinds of backgrounds, grew up in similar neighborhoods. So we had that connection. But he was always pushing the envelope. He reinvented himself and his music many times. He was inspiring because he was a great innovator and not afraid to try things. It’s nothing conscious, but that rubs off.”
“And Dave … well, don’t you feel that since he died, the world’s gone to shit? It was like he was cosmic glue or something. When he died, everything fell apart. So, yeah, I miss him. Occasionally, I’ll see something, it’ll make me laugh, and I’ll think, ‘God, I wonder what Dave would have made of this,’ or ‘Oh, that would have made him laugh,’ Gary Oldman said.
David Bowie died on January 10, 2016 at the age of 69 after years of battling cancer. Just two days earlier, on his birthday, his final album Blackstar, which had been recorded in secrecy, was released.
Gary Oldman continues his successful career, more recently being praised for his acting in the series “Slow Horses”.