“When I was growing up, and the syllabus was very much that history was the great wars, World War I and World War II, he was and is the hero, the man who saved us from tyranny,” the actor said in a phone interview. “Although it obviously took more than one man, to us he’s the guy that won the war. He’s very much our savior.”
Oldman said he has “always been fascinated by him, but I never thought I would play him, only because of the physicality.”
Churchill was 5 feet 6 inches tall and resembled, in girth and demeanor, a jowly bulldog.