Guy Pearce has admitted he "wanted to punch" a former costar who once made "snobby" comments about his past work in Australian soap opera Neighbours. "I did a play a year after I left [Neighbours] and this snobby actress said,

Guy Pearce recently spoke to The Times as part of his Oscar campaign for “The Brutalist” and remembered getting piled on by members of the industry due to his acting start on the popular Australian soap opera “Neighbours.

Pearce was on Neighbours in the mid-to-late 1980s and reprised the role for the show's original 2022 finale (though it's since been revived). He noted of getting his start on a soap: That said, it really was frowned upon.