Ray Winstone was working in Malta at the time of the interview after flying there from London.
“I've flown back from London to Malta. I'm working in Malta, really.”
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Ray Winstone is working on a show called Danger Money for Amazon.
“we're doing a a a show called Um, Danger Money for Amazon.”
Ray Winstone says he stopped drinking about two and a half years before the interview.
“what happened with me was I stopped drinking about two and a half years ago.”
Ray Winstone says his shingles began in November and eased in February when he started work.
“Well, since November, it kinda settled down in February when I started working”
Ray Winstone says he first went into a school play at about fourteen years of age.
“I went into a school play when I was about, I guess I was about fourteen years of age.”
Ray Winstone says his parents paid 900 pounds a term for his drama schooling in the 1970s.
“it was 900 quid a term, and in those days, it was back in the seventies”
Ray Winstone says his school friend Danny Jones was one of the Hatton Garden robbers.
“he was one of the Hatton Garden old men who done the robbery.”
Ray Winstone made the film Scum before he was a trained actor.
“I done a film called Scum, and I wasn't an actor at the time”
Ray Winstone says Gangster No. 1 fell through after a falling out with the producers, so he made Sexy Beast instead.
“Gangster number one had a falling out with the producers and all that, so we couldn't do that.”
Ben Kingsley arrived late to Sexy Beast, so the cast shot in Spain around his absence.
“But then he doesn't turn up because he's locked in on this other film. So we're in Spain shooting around him”
Ray Winstone says West Ham and Liverpool share working-class dock roots.
“There's a lot in common with West Ham and Liverpool because they're both dock teams, you know”
Ray Winstone says he asked Martin Scorsese to play Mister French, a gangster character with few lines.
“I said, Can I play Mister French? And he said, But Mister French don't say anything.”