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Sitting in Winston Churchill’s chair in the War Cabinet Room at Westminster sent a chill down Gary Oldman’s spine. “I discovered a manifestation of stress which now physically lives in a piece of furniture,” the 59-year-old English actor says. “On the left arm of the chair are these huge divots that Churchill had made with his fingernails, and on the right arm there are scratches from his family ring.”
A number of critics have posited Mr. Oldman as an early front-runner for the Academy Award for best actor for his prosthetically…