[kj] ot Ray Winstone

[Patrick Davies]

The audition was for one of the most notorious plays in history - Alan
Clarke's Scum - and, because Clarke liked his cocky, aggressive boxer's
walk, he got the part. Amazingly (also considering the part had been
written for a Glaswegian), it seemed he was on his way to the top.

He wasn't - yet, anyway. Due to its sickening violence and outraged
condemnation of the borstal service (the government, of course, running
that service AND the BBC), Scum was shelved indefinitely. Giving acting
up as a bad lot, Winstone retired, working on fruit stalls and as a
sales rep. Then, suddenly, Scum was un-shelved. Or rather Clarke managed
to get it re-shot as a movie. Winstone was called in again, this time by
producer Davina Belling, to re-play the bully Carlin. This led to a part
in The Who's Quadrophenia, and the Belling-produced That Summer - a kind
of punky coming-of-age flick set by the seaside.

Winstone's face and carriage might win him regular roles as a villainous
hard man, but they also attract the attention of the law. As a kid, he
was arrested on sus on several occasions. Later, returning from filming
an episode of Bergerac on Jersey, he was stopped on suspicion of
gun-running. And, a couple of years after that, he spent 72 hours in a
Leeds jail, having been "identified" by a member of the public who'd
seen an identikit picture of a criminal on Crimewatch UK.

 

Love Honour and Obey, Nil By Mouth, Sexy Beast, War Zone. If you ain't
seen them then you should try!

iPat

-----Original Message-----
From: peter.west410 [mailto:peter.west410 at ntlworld.com] 
Sent: 17 August 2004 23:01
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] questions/does not bode well

 

"CARLING",I want you too name Carling".

"No Sir, I slipped"

 

 

"Basketball is supposed too be a non-contact sport"

 

"First chance I get ,Im gonna carve you two fuck*rs up"

    (or was that Mcvicar)

 

"Where's ya tool"

" Wot tool"

"DIS facken tool you...............

 

 

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