BLACK WIDOW Actor Ray Winstone Says the Film's Reshoots Were "Soul Destroying" and He Wanted to Be Recast

The movie Black Widow was a cool chapter in the MCU, which went back in time and filled in the storyline for Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson), answering questions about her origin, her family, and a period of time which we knew little about before that film. It was action-packed, and it introduced us to a bunch of cool new characters, some of which we will see again in the movie Thunderbolts, which is set to hit theatres next summer.

But it wasn’t the best experience for at least one of the film’s actors, Ray Winstone, who played the villainous character Dreykov. The actor had a decent enough time making the movie. But the same can’t be said for coming back for Marvel reshoots.

Winstone recently told Radio Times:

“It 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. It can be soul-destroying because you feel like you’re doing great work.”

While Winstone reluctantly participated in the Black Widow reshoots, it appears his main reason for doing so were contractual.

“I actually said, ‘You ought to recast it because that was it for me.’ And you end up doing it again because you’re contracted to do it. Otherwise you end up in court. It’s like being kicked in the balls.”

The actor made it through, and it doesn’t sound like he’ll be signing up for another project like this in the future. It’s too bad that he had a negative experience, but at least he got paid that Marvel money.

via: Variety