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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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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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.
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It's a wonderful device to be able to show the huge events in history this way. Sometimes it is the man in the street who drops the stone that causes the ripple which upsets the empire. I'm sure it's happening today as we speak.
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It's a wonderful device to be able to show the huge events in history this way.
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It's an interesting theory, ... But you can put British actors in silly clothes and not look ridiculous. Now if the Brits were to make a western, it would fall apart.
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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.