By Veteran British actor Ray Winstone (“Sexy Beast,” “The Departed”) doesn’t have the fondest of memories of his time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Winstone starred as the villain Dreykov in Scarlett Johansson-led spin-off film “Black Widow” which was shot before the pandemic and released in early 2021 simultaneously in cinemas and on Disney+ as a premium day & date release.
Winstone is very straightforward and practical about his experiences, a few days ago saying how shooting a movie is about “going to have fun for six weeks” and if the film “turns out great, it’s a plus”.
Now, speaking with Radio Times magazine, the actor indicated that his issues with the film tied to the reshoots and all the executives who got involved:
“It 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. It can be soul-destroying because you feel like you’re doing great work.
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.”
The comments come as Winstone has three projects on the way shortly – the series adaptation of Guy Ritchie’s “The Gentlemen,” the Millie Bobby Brown-led film “Damsel,” and the recovery drama “A Bit of Light”.
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