Actor Ray Stevenson has starred in some of the biggest projects of the past few years.
He discusses his work on new DVD releases Kill The Irishman and Thor, as well as the latest big screen version of The Three Musketeers.
Thor is released on the same day in the same formats, and The Three Musketeers gets a UK cinema release on October 12.
HOW HARD WAS IT MAKING NEW GANGSTER EPIC, KILL THE IRISHMAN?
It was a very tough shoot actually. We shot it in seven weeks. It really does come across like a 40 million dollar movie; a huge testament to (director) Jonathan Hensleigh and those involved. I was basically filming every single day; there wasn’t a scene that I wasn’t in.
WORKING WITH CO-STAR CHRISTOPHER WALKEN MUST HAVE BEEN FANTASTIC
Oh my God, he’s incredible. And they’re thoroughly prepared as well. Him and Val Kilmer and Vincent D’Onofrio... all the guys from New York. They were just great.
YOU PLAY REAL-LIFE CHARACTER DANNY GREENE. HOW FAMILIAR WERE YOU WITH HIM BEFORE YOU STARTED WORK?
I thought I wasn’t at all when I was first approached, but Jonathan (Hensleigh) sent me the script. As I was reading it I thought, ‘Hang on, I know this’. When I finished it I realised three or fours years ago I’d seen a programme on The History Channel about American mobsters and it was the story of Danny Greene.
THOR WAS ONE OF THE YEAR’S BIGGEST BLOCKBUSTERS. HOW DID YOU LAND THE PART OF HIS ALLY, VOLSTAGG?
Kenneth Branagh just called me up and he says, ‘Ray, I’ve got this job...’, I said, ‘I’ll do it!’ He said, ‘No, let me explain. I’ve been watching your work love, I know you’re a big strapping guy and everything, but there’s this part and I think you could do it’. Then the role nearly killed me. We were filming in New Mexico and LA. I had to have a vest on with ice water pumped through pipes on this vest to cool your core temperature down. I mean there’s this huge latex fat suit, then a big pashmina woolly scarf as a beard, then a nice woolly hat as his headpiece. Then they put armour on you and give you a six-bladed axe to wield.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE IN THOR 2?
I think they’re in talks with the director now. I know they want to mash these worlds together in The Avengers. I don’t know. If the sequel happens it may be that Thor will go off on a wild adventure on his own and leads The Warriors Three to Asgard. We’ll see.
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