{"id":46683,"date":"2024-02-27T13:25:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T12:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1999069"},"modified":"2024-02-27T14:16:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T13:16:42","slug":"ray-winstone-remembers-soul-destroying-experience-filming-for-mcu","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/ray-winstone-remembers-soul-destroying-experience-filming-for-mcu\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Winstone remembers \u201csoul-destroying\u201d experience filming for MCU"},"content":{"rendered":"

The actor played a villain in 2021’s Black Widow. <\/p>

By Lidia Molina-Whyte\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 27 February 2024 at 12:25 PM<\/p>

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Ray Winstone has become the latest big name to criticise the Marvel Cinematic Universe<\/a>, joining the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, Ken Loach and Martin Scorsese, who famously told Empire magazine<\/a> that Marvel movies are \u201cnot cinema.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wintone appeared in Marvel\u2019s Black Widow, which came out in 2021 and which starred Scarlett Johansson as the titular character.<\/p>\n

In this week\u2019s issue of Radio Times magazine<\/strong>, Winstone opened up about his experience playing the film\u2019s villain, Russian general Dreykov.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was fine until you have to do the reshoots,\u201d he said. \u201cThen you find out that a few producers have come down, and your performance is too much, it\u2019s too strong\u2026 That\u2019s the way Marvel works. It can be soul-destroying because you feel like you\u2019re doing great work.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actor revealed he was ready to give up on the project altogether: \u201cI actually said, \u2018You ought to recast it because that was it for me.\u2019 And you end up doing it again because you\u2019re contracted to do it. Otherwise you end up in court. It\u2019s like being kicked in the balls.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ray Winstone in The Gentlemen.<\/span><\/figcaption> Christopher Rafael\/Netflix<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Winstone also opened up about his two upcoming Netflix projects, the Millie Bobby Brown-starring Damsel<\/a> and the Guy Ritchie-directed The Gentlemen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He plays Brown\u2019s father in the former, and a Cockney drug lord in the latter.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone can talk a good film, but you get a little smell sometimes if someone\u2019s a bit more serious than others,\u201d he said of Damsel and its director, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo.<\/p>\n

Winstone also had praise for Ritchie, who he\u2019s working with for the first time on the Netflix spin-off of his 2019 film.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s pretty clear what he wants. Then he changes his mind! He does that all the time, by all accounts. But as long as you\u2019re up to speed and you know what you\u2019re doing, then it\u2019s easy to change. If you ain\u2019t done your homework, then you\u2019re f***ed. Because he\u2019s a very clever boy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Read the full interview in this week\u2019s issue of Radio Times magazine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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