ABC 7's Janet Davies talked to the actor about this epic movie that opens in Chicago next Friday.
Janet Davies: 'How do you view him growing up and school and through your adult life until you portrayed him?"
Gary Oldman: "He's our hero, isn't he, he's our savior..."
Davies: "The first time you looked in the mirror with it all on, were you taken aback?"
Oldman: "Yeah, and the makeup, it was so good that people who would visit the set, you could be an inch from my face and you could not see where I start and it ends or where it ends and I start, so people were quite staggered."
Davies: "Was it important to have his heirs, his family sign off on it?"
Oldman: "Yeah, they got there, there was 14 of them and they had a blast and since the screening of the movie for them they've come out and said yeah I've got him right so it's always good to know."
Davies: "How are you reacting to all this Oscar buzz about this and you?"
Oldman: "Nothing to complain about, someone saying you may get an Oscar, things could be worse."