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May 08, 2006
Winstone swears good like an Englishman should: Ray knows how to swear
Brit acting great Ray Winstone is pretty special in The Proposition; in the UK, he's promoting one of the most swearful UK pics ever made, Channel 4's All in the Game, a role as a soccer manager that the Observer's Lynn Barber calls "terrifying." Screenwriter Tony Grounds, says Barber, "portrays the very worst side[s]... not bad behaviour by the fans, but by the management, agents and players, who are all up to their necks in dodgy deals, bungs and betting scams. Grounds says it is not based on any particular club or individual but it certainly has an insider feel." There's another feeling Barber has: "All in the Game is remarkable for having the highest expletive count of any film I have ever seen. I asked Winstone if all the fucks and fuckings were in the script, and Grounds intervened: 'Ray's very good—he plays every word as written. But we had a meeting with the Channel 4 producer about a week before we started shooting and he had the script and there were about a thousand stickers in it—blue, yellow, green, pink—and I said "What's all that?", and he said, green is fucking, yellow is cunt, blue is racial abuse or whatever, and he said, "We should have a cunt reduction." But it's part of the culture, part of the natural flow of the language. And Ray knows how to swear.'"
Posted by Ray Pride at May 8, 2006 05:41 PM
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