The Gentlemen features Ray Winstone as a barbeque-devouring drug lord, and the Guy Ritchie series has put in a meaty display with British audiences.
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Ray Winstone spoke candidly about his Marvel experience.
The actor played the villainous Dreykov alongside Scarlett Johansson in 2021′s Black Widow.
While he said that the filming experience was “fine” at first, Ray explained how it got so “soul-destroying” that he asked to be recast.
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According to Ray, it got bad when it was time to do reshoots.
“Then you find out that a few producers have come down, and your performance is too much, it’s too strong… That’s the way Marvel works,” he told Radio Times. “It can be soul-destroying because you feel like you’re doing great work.”
Ray continued, recalling, “I actually said, ‘You ought to recast it because that was it for me.’ And you end up doing it again because you’re contracted to do it.”
“Otherwise you end up in court. It’s like being kicked in the balls,” he concluded.
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The Gentlemen features Ray Winstone as a barbeque-devouring drug lord, and the Guy Ritchie series has put in a meaty display with British audiences.
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Guy Ritchie fans have spent their weekend binge-watching the latest gritty gangster drama from the celebrated director. The Gentlemen is a spin-off of the 2019 film of the same title, following a new set of unassuming characters.
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The Gentlemen, a brand new Netflix series from Guy Ritchie inspired by his 2019 movie of the same name, has arrived on the streaming platform, but what songs are on the show’s soundtrack?All eight episodes of the series were released yesterday (March 7) to the streaming giant’s platform. The spin-off series stars Theo James as Eddie Halstead, who has inherited an estate of 15,000 acres and the title of Duke of Halstead from his deceased father.
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Ray Winstone has revealed that he was once arrested after getting involved in a fight with a man on a motorbike.In an interview with Metro, the actor, who is currently appearing in new Netflix series, The Gentleman, revealed that the incident happened when he bumped into one of his acting heroes – Hollywood legend James Cagney.“My mate was driving him and I saw him get out of the car. James Cagney is one of my heroes – and I just didn’t know what to say,”’ he continued, explaining that he was starstruck.He continued: “He walked into [a building] and my mate said he’d be back later on and told me to get back here.
Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen has received a TV sequel series on Netflix.The spin-off series stars Theo James as Eddie Halstead, who has inherited an estate of 15,000 acres and the title of Duke of Halstead from his deceased father. He soon discovers the land, however, is part of Mickey Pearson’s cannabis empire.Pearson was played by Matthew McConaughey in Guy Ritchie’s original 2020 film, alongside Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, Jeremy Strong and Michelle Dockery.This sequel series, meanwhile, stars predominantly British acting heavyweights including Kaya Scodelario, Daniel Ings, Joely Richardson, Peter Serafinowicz, Ray Winstone and Vinnie Jones.Netflix has not announced whether The Gentlemen will return for a second season.
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Ray Winstone says he nearly quit the 2021 MCU movie “Black Widow” — and likened its “soul-destroying” endless reshoots to being “kicked in the balls.”Winstone, 67, who played villainous Russian general Dreykov in the movie — opposite Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow — made his damning comments about working in the Marvel Comics Universe to UK’s Radio Times.“It was fine until you have to do the reshoots,” he said in this week’s issue of Radio Times, according to Daily Mail. “Then you find out that a few producers have come down, and your performance is too much, it’s too strong.”“That’s the way Marvel works,” he added.
Actor Ray Winstone has two Netflix projects on the way: Guy Ritchie’s crime comedy series, “The Gentlemen” (read our review), and “Damsel” opposite Millie Bobbie Brown. But of course, as is custom these days, the actor was asked about his appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Ray Winstone has described filming Marvel‘s Black Widow as a “soul-destroying” experience.In a new interview with with Radio Times magazine, the actor, who played villain Dreykov in the Scarlett Johansson-led 2021 action-thriller, admitted that filming the Marvel movie “was fine until you have to do the reshoots.”“Then you find out that a few producers have come down, and your performance is too much, it’s too strong… That’s the way Marvel works,” Winstone said. “It can be soul-destroying because you feel like you’re doing great work.”The Sexy Beast actor said that he wanted to give up on the project altogether, but realised couldn’t as he was contractually obliged to complete it.“I actually said, ‘You ought to recast it because that was it for me.’ And you end up doing it again because you’re contracted to do it,” he explained.
Ray Winstone appeared in Marvel’s Black Widow, which came out in 2021 and which starred Scarlett Johansson as the titular character.
Witty, nimble, sharply dressed, and light on its feet, Guy Ritchie’s dexterous “The Gentlemen” is a largely surprising delight (mostly, anyhow)—an entertaining crime comedy with a snap, crackle, and pop that’s far superior to the more self-enamored 2019 film of the same name whence it came. The connections to the original are tenuous at best, nothing more than the cannabis and drug empires milieus in the U.K.
Ray Winstone has said he sometimes stars in films he doesn’t “want to do” so he can “pay the rent”.In a new interview with The Guardian, the 67-year-old spoke about his life and career and admitted that sometimes, he did films he didn’t necessarily want to do.He explained: “You go have fun for six weeks, see how it turns out,” he said, referring to the filming process. “If it turns out great, it’s a plus.
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