'That Sort of Film Would Bore the Arse Off Me' — Ray Winstone Insists He Doesn't Regret Turning Up Drunk to His Audition With George Lucas for Padmé's Father in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones

Ray Winstone has revealed however helium botched an audition for a Star Wars movie due to the fact that helium turned up drunk. But, arsenic you’d expect from the Londoner champion known for his "hard man" roles, helium has nary regrets.

It turns retired Winstone had an audition successful beforehand of George Lucas himself for the relation of Ruwee Naberrie, Padmé’s begetter successful Star Wars prequel movie Attack of the Clones. But helium was retired drinking the nighttime earlier and attended the gathering drunk, which led to an awkward standoff.

“It didn’t spell well,” Winstone told Far Out magazine. “Had words and that was that. I’ve worked for George since, and helium was fine. He didn’t remember. Or if helium did, helium didn’t instrumentality it to heart.”

Ray Winstone turned up for a Star Wars audition drunk. Photo by Dave Benett/Getty Images for Boisdale.

Winstone past suggested helium was near unimpressed aft Lucas failed to archer him helium didn’t get the occupation himself, sending a messenger to present the atrocious - but not unexpected - quality instead.

“I’d been retired each night, and I turned up, and I knew I was incorrect for the portion arsenic soon arsenic I walked in, but alternatively of saying that, helium relayed the connection to maine done idiosyncratic else, and I took umbrage astatine that,” Winstone said.

He added that helium thought Lucas had pitchy lag due to the fact that helium yawned during the audition. And then, pursuing a play of silence, Winstone remembered helium was asked a question, which sounds much similar it was a directive: “Why don’t we some person a 15-minute slumber and past I’ll f**k off?”

Ruwee Naberrie ended up being played by Australian histrion Graeme Blundell, and Attack of the Clones made hundreds of millions astatine the planetary container office. But Winstone has nary regrets, adding: “that benignant of movie would bore the arse disconnected me, each that bluescreen work.”

Still, it’s amusive to ideate the tough-talking Londonder playing Natalie Portman’s dada successful Star Wars. Bloody hell!

This isn’t the archetypal clip the outspoken Winstone has recalled having a hard clip with big-budget Hollywood movie franchises. In August, Winstone spoke of his vexation with Marvel's demands for Black Widow reshoots, contempt the film's manager seemingly being blessed with his performance.

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