RoboCop 2014 – Gary Oldman said he did it for the money

British acting legend Gary Oldman has cracked on that the real reason he signed up to star in the new RoboCop movie was for the money.

The Oscar-nominated star said it was the wage packet that motivated him to join the sci-fi reboot as Doctor Dennett Norton.

He made the quip at a press junket for the film alongside Joel Kinnaman, Abbie Cornish and director Jose Padilha.

The 55-year-old joked “Why am I in this movie? Money!

“I’m at the mercy of what the industry is making and what comes through my door.

“But I thought this was an intelligent script and I love Jose’s point of view.”

The actor, who has starred in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, Nil By Mouth and four of the Harry Potter films, continued: “It’s always interesting when you’ve got someone on the outside coming in to make a movie like this, a part of American pop culture.

“You’ve got people like Alfonso Cuaron making Harry Potter, Tomas Alfredson makes Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and a Brazilian documentarian (Padilha) making RoboCop.

“It was a hard one to turn down really.”