Ray Winstone has reflected on his time filming Marvel's Black Widow, and his memories are not all fond ones.
The actor played villain Dreykov, who controls the Red Room and its worldwide network of assassins, in the MCU film.
Speaking to Radio Times, Winstone explained that he did not enjoy having to return to the set after the filming initially wrapped, something that is common practice in Marvel and Hollywood in general.
"It was fine until you have to do the reshoots," he said.
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"Then you find out that a few producers have come down, and your performance is too much, it's too strong… That's the way Marvel works. It can be soul-destroying because you feel like you're doing great work.
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"I actually said, 'You ought to recast it because that was it for me.' And you end up doing it again because you're contracted to do it. Otherwise you end up in court. It's like being kicked in the balls."
While Black Widow served as the swan song for Scarlett Johansson's super spy, it introduced multiple characters that are set to return in Thunderbolts, including Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova.
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The actress revealed that production on the anti-hero team-up movie has finally begun, after a series of delays, with Pugh noting that filming has coincided with her doing press for Dune: Part Two (out this week) and Oppenheimer (which came out during last year's strike, so the cast are promoting it during the Oscars build-up).
"I feel so honoured that I've been able to basically do the most bizarre press tour for both movies at the same time I've just started my next movie," she said. "I managed to squeeze this one in, so I feel very grateful that I've managed to juggle all of them at the same time."
Black Widow is streaming on Disney+.
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