Actor who was drunk during ‘Star Wars’ casting has yet to apologize: ‘They upset me a lot’

to Ray Winstone He doesn’t like cranberry juice. The London actor takes part in one of the most memorable scenes Hackers: The movie in which Leonardo DiCaprio beats up a bully after he makes fun of his penchant for cranberry juice. Hackersavailable in Spain thanks to Netflix, is one of dozens of titles that make up Winstone’s CV. The saga star wars Not among them.

In a recent interview, Ray Winstone He admitted that if he didn’t collaborate on George Lucas’ famous franchise, it was largely because the night before the audition he didn’t drink a drop of cranberry juice. Winston auditioned for Padmé Amidala’s father (Natalie Portman), but his audition did not go well. He didn’t care at all either.

Ray Winstone goes to bed late

Before Graeme Blundell was chosen for the role, Ray Winstone was George Lucas’s preferred choice to play Padmé Amidala’s father. but, Winston arrived completely drunk after not stopping at the house.. For Winston, who did not remember a single sentence from the script that followed, it was not a surprise to learn that he had not been hired, although he was upset that George Lucas had not told him this directly, but through someone else.

Winston has no regrets about missing the Star Wars train. “With so much color, it’s the kind of movie that bores me to death“, he admitted. Years later, George Lucas and Ray Winstone met again, this time through Indiana Jones, where Winston worked on Kingdom of the Crystal Skullfor which Lucas was the screenwriter and executive producer. Lucas, according to Winston, did not remember their shared experience, and if he did he did not give it any importance.

After appearing in the Guy Ritchie series Gentlemen And in the hit Netflix movie starring Millie Bobby Brown The girla Ray Winstone film produced in Australia awaiting release Burnt pianoalongside Isabelle Huppert and Geoffrey Rush, but also featuring Eurovision singer Conchita Wurst. His career has seen no downtime or hard times since he successfully bridged the gap between interpreter and permanent interpreter Revenge of the SithOf course it wouldn’t have hurt him, even by adding some zero to his bank account.