Guy Pearce

In 2000's 'Memento', Guy Pearce played Leonard Shelby, a man living with amnesia trying to find the second attacker who took his wife's life.

In an interview with Empire, Pearce detailed Nolan’s extraordinary skill on communicating exactly what he wants to happen on set.

He said: “Well, Chris is everybody’s director. He’s an art director’s director, a cinematographer’s director, an actor’s director. I thought, ‘Wow, I’m really working with someone who’s fantastic.’ Not just because of how clever he was, and how honest and humble he was, but how communicative he was about what he wanted to achieve and how he was gonna achieve it through the technical channels, how he wanted to shoot it. But also equally adept at analyzing and breaking down the emotions of the characters, the moments within scenes, why he wanted to push in on a close-up at this moment, because he felt that that would actually trigger something that somebody saw in a scene five scenes ago. I was completely intimidated, completely inspired, completely enamoured.”