Ray Winstone was once arrested for fighting a man on a motorbike

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Ray Winstone has revealed that he was once arrested after getting involved in a fight with a man on a motorbike.In an interview with Metro, the actor, who is currently appearing in new Netflix series, The Gentleman, revealed that the incident happened when he bumped into one of his acting heroes – Hollywood legend James Cagney.“My mate was driving him and I saw him get out of the car.

James Cagney is one of my heroes – and I just didn’t know what to say,”’ he continued, explaining that he was starstruck.He continued: “He walked into [a building] and my mate said he’d be back later on and told me to get back here.

But I was going to see my agent; I was only a young kid, about 17 or 18.”He then explained that he went back to see his hero but on the way, ended up having a fight – and it resulted in him getting arrested and missing the chance to meet his hero.Wnstone continued: “Anyway, I was walking back across the road and I ended up having a fight with a guy on a motorbike and got arrested on Saville Row, so I never got to meet him properly.”Winstone later went on to joke that it was “appropriate” considering Cagney’s many roles in tough-guy films.In other news, Winstone recently described filming Marvel‘s Black Widow as a “soul-destroying” experience.In an interview with Radio Times magazine, the actor, who played villain Dreykov in the Scarlett Johansson-led 2021 action-thriller, admitted that filming the Marvel movie “was fine until you have to do the reshoots.”“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,” Winstone said. “It can be soul-destroying because you feel like you’re doing great work.”The Sexy Beast actor said that he.