Ray Winstone is a veteran actor, but MCU fans may know him as the villain Dreykov in Black Widow. With the Scarlett Johansson-led project, it was reportedly a rough shoot, and now Winstone is opening up about his experience in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Speaking with Radio Times magazine, the actor holds nothing back when discussing what happened with Black Widow, stating that he felt it was “going to have fun for six weeks” and if the film “turns out great, it’s a plus.” But things turned sour with the traditional Marvel reshoots.
Winstone unleashes on the film, “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.”
Winstone will next be seen in the Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen series on Netflix. Watch the trailer here.
In Marvel Studios’ action-packed spy thriller “Black Widow,” Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow, confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.
Black Widow is directed by Cate Shortland (Lore) and sees Scarlett Johansson reprising her role as Natasha Romanoff alongside William Hurt as Thaddeus Ross, Florence Pugh (Fighting With My Family) as Yelena Belova, O-T Fagbenle (The Handmaid’s Tale) as Mason, David Harbour (Stranger Things) as Alexei Shostakov/Red Guardian, Rachel Weisz (The Favourite) as Melina Vostokoff and Ray Winstone (Sexy Beast) as Dreykov.
