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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When you're wearing jeans there's a shift in your center of gravity. A costume like this and a character like this, there's no way to hide. If you try and play him any way sort of modern or normal, you diminish. He's larger than life. He's 150 percent. You've got to go for it all the time. It was just impossible.
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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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Hence the genius of having Ken steer this ship as well. You have to invest these characters with a Shakespearian quality and not in a way that might disengage the audience but in a way that actually lets you play to an audience.
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There's not a lot of direct back story but you do get to see them playing around each other a lot.
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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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It got bloody and it got messy. There was a huge amount of work done by a tremendous Italian stunt team ... and we'd be thrown into the melee.
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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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I feel like I don't exist. It's like I'm some sort of an alias.
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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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People will be told it features graphic content and adult language,
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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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He sees the world in black-and-white. That allows him to drink and fight; it makes life alive for him.
If you're going to be offended, don't put yourself in that position.
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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.