![]() Two or three years previous, I watched on cable TV some program called American Mobsters, and it was the story of Danny Greene. Ray Stevenson: The strange thing is, when Jonathan brought me the script, I started reading it, and it wasn’t until I was about halfway through that I went, “Hang on, I know this story.” And then I remembered how. Were you aware of Danny Greene prior to hearing about this project? So, yeah, we used it as far as capturing certain nuances of Danny Greene, but we didn’t rely on it. And, of course, that’s only one person’s point of view several individuals wrote history. Sometimes, that stuff can actually get in the way you can get an overabundance of information about a particular event. So I knew there was a point where I’d have to actually pull away from the sort of documented history, because we’re making the script. Ray Stevenson: It’s all there for me and the filmmakers to have a look, but we’re not making a documentary or a pastiche or anything. Was it difficult to develop a larger-than-life character like Danny Greene using news reel footage and other secondhand resources? In the script lies this man’s journey, and I was trying to get the subtlety and the sort of nuances that bring out what I think is the heart of the movie, which is his journey, engulfed in this world of mobsters and car explosions. Ray Stevenson: Well, essentially, once I sorted through a lot of the news reels and available documentation, I basically started to work on the script, really. Complex spoke with Stevenson about his unique mafia flick, the chances of another Punisher movie, and how Thor is like Fantasia, in a good way.Ĭomplex: What sort of preparation went into playing Danny Greene? Anderson’s reimagining of The Three Musketeers, due out in October. In May, he’s co-starring as jolly Asgard brute Volstagg in the much-anticipated Thor, followed by the major role of Porthos in Resident Evil franchise head Paul W.S. Kill The Irishman is the actor’s first of three notable projects this year. With an eclectic and strong supporting (among them Christopher Walken, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Paul Sorvino), Kill The Irishman is a scrappy little gangster flick that’s briskly paced and well acted, namely in Stevenson’s case. Stevenson plays Danny Greene, an Irish-American who evolved from a grunt union worker into a powerful thorn in the sides of Cleveland’s top Italian mobsters during the 1970s. ![]() The burly 46-year-old has already proven his proficiency with high-concept action, so what’s the next logical step? Showing his acting skills in a deeper way, which he does in full force in the mob movie/biopic Kill The Irishman, out in limited release this Friday. Comic book fans, meanwhile, should remember him as the most recent-and best, frankly, even though the movie itself was uneven-actor to play Frank Castle, in 2008’s hyper-violent Punisher: War Zone. After first entering the Hollywood system as a Medieval warrior in 2004’s King Arthur, the Lisburn, Ireland-born actor went on to star in HBO’s gladiator series Rome (2005-2007) and play Gary Oldman’s top enforcer in last year’s The Book Of Eli. Ray Stevenson knows that he can kick plenty of ass.
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