Ray Stevenson
Ray Stevenson
Actor who has appeared in action films such as Thor and King Arthur. He played Firefly in G.I. Joe: Retaliation, and portrayed Porthos in The Three Musketeers.
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth25 May 1964
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It was two people that were thrown together in a friendship in spite of themselves, ... Everything that's around them is being turned into quicksand. The whole fabric of their lives and the structure of their society is completely mixing them around.
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People will be told it features graphic content and adult language,
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Working at night helps people focus in on this crazy little bubble you've created, wherever you are filming. It doesn't matter where the location is, the world doesn't exist outside this bubble. And everyone is trapped inside.
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I suppose from my point of view, (they are) two people that were thrown in together in a friendship in spite of themselves, in one sense flip sides of the same coin, ... Their weaknesses are sort of complemented by the strengths of the other one, and vice versa. They don't accept this, they don't recognize it, but it's just the subtext of their relationship itself.
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[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.
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I love the chameleon nature of this business [acting]. I always have. Sometimes I'm not as recognizable as somebody else and I may not have gotten a role, but for me, acting is not a competition. I've just kept my head down and kept working, and had the great pleasure of working with some amazing people and playing some extraordinary and extreme characters.
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As an actor, I relish and delight in doing things that I'm not necessarily the demographic for. This is a demographic that is touching the psyche of a certain age group, facing the real internal questions of people who are going through rites of passage into adulthood. It's earth-shaking stuff.
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The weird thing is, in America, people were saying, "You're not going to get recognized because all you're going to see is basically your forehead and eyes."
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For me, because I've had classical theater training, when people say, "Oh, my god, the play is amazing!," I'll never get to see it because I'm in it.
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I didn't want people to go out wanting to go tool up against the bad guys (and at impressionable ages). I said, don't shy away from the violence or pull back on this, commit to this.
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One of the most profound things for me is that my character's name was held by somebody, ... It's not just made up.
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I feel like I don't exist. It's like I'm some sort of an alias.
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The best piece of advice I've ever been given was, 'Be in the business you're in.' Don't just be a satellite around it and expect it to come to you. Be in the business you're in.
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(They) were thrown together in a friendship in spite of themselves.