‘That’s how it works’: Marvel forced Ray Winstone to finish filming Black Widow

Ray Winstone is mad at Marvel! On the set of the film “Black Widow”, he played Drake, the black widow of the “Red Room” program. The role of the villain, which he plays perfectly, and everything goes well with the Australian director Kate Shortland. Except it won’t last…

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When a Marvel movie ends, there are systematically at least a few days dedicated to adding binders, filling in gaps, adding or changing things to add new scenes. In the United States, we call this “taking over.” And that’s where things changed for Winston, he said Radio Times :

“That’s how it works at Marvel”

It was going well until I had to do some filming. There you find that several producers have arrived and your performance becomes “too much”, too strong… that’s how it works at Marvel. It can be soul-destroying because you think you’re doing a good job.

It got to the point that Ray Winstone threatened to resign:

“I said, ‘You have to replace me because this is over for me.’

He who was Beowulf, Sweeney Todd or Henry VIII and shot Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Anthony Minghella, Alan Clarke and Darren Aronofsky does not allow himself to be counted for Black Widow. After comments like these, it’s hard to imagine Winston returning (in flashback) to the Marvel Universe one day!

In the past, Idris Elba (Heimdall in the MCU) has also been very critical of Marvel’s filming: “I just shot eight months in South Africa. I came to England and had to shoot Thor 2 the same day. (…) I said to myself: “It was torture, I can’t do it. I don’t want to do that. My agent said, “You have to do it, it’s a contract.”