The star of the black widow Ray Winstone says that his original Dreykov was “like a pedophile” and all his scenes were reshot

In a recent conversation at the Sarajevo Film Festival, Ray Winstone Open on his frustrating work experience on Marvel Studios Black widowRevealing that his entire performance as a bad Dreykov was reshot and that the original version of the character was a much darker and more disturbing figure.

Winstone, who played the left -wing claim of the Red Room, shared that the Dreykov’s public version saw in the final cut of Black widow he was drastically different from what he and the director Cate Shortland He had originally made.

“I worked with this fantastic director, Cate Shortland, and we worked on what would have been my character. It was like a pedophile that ran around all these girls and became a black widows. We used to applaud on the set. It was probably the best thing I did for a long time.”

Winstone explained that after enveloping what he thought it was his last performance, he received an unexpected call from Shortland.

“Then I go home after finishing the job and I receive a call saying that we have to make some shots. I say: how many scenes? [Cate] He says “all of them”.

“So I said it should make [the role]But I was contracted, so I had to do it. I go back, they all do my hair well, they put me in a dress and I couldn’t do it. I had already done it. “

His frustration did not stop there. Winstone described the experience as emotionally overwhelming, saying:

“I thought:” I’m not doing it now. I did it. It is so. This is refusal, you know?

This is not the first time that Winstone expressed disappointment with the Hollywood machine. Speaking of the state of the film industry today, he said:

“It’s about selling tickets. Let’s see what’s going on in Hollywood with Marvel and all that kind of things. There is room for this, and it’s funny, but takes away the cultural films made, which are the best for the actors, [and] They are really good acting parts. “

He also indicated the current pressures that the actors face in the merger process, adding:

“It is becoming more and more difficult to do it. If you are not on social media now, they may not consider you even for a film because they want a fan base to come with that.”

While Black widow It was not a bankruptcy at the box office, its strategy of release of the pandemic era damaged its performance. He has withdrawn $ 379.8 million all over the world, well below what most Marvel Studios’ films generally earn.

The simultaneous release of the film on Disney+ Premier Access also triggered a legal battle with Scarlett Johanssonwho sued Disney for the lost box office bonuses.

Winstone’s character was killed Black widowAnd his daughter, Taskmaster, returned briefly in Thunderbolts* At the beginning of this year, just to be pulled out after a couple of scenes.

The details behind the scenes of Winstone offer more information Black widowThe troubled production and shows how different the film would have been before Marvel intervene with the filming.

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