Ray Stevenson’s Dream Was To Bring This Shakespeare Tragedy To The Big Screen
The late Irish actor Ray Stevenson was quite an expert at playing outsize heavies and larger-than-life characters. It’s no wonder that he appeared in films like “Punisher: War Zone,” the most enjoyably violent movie in the Marvel Comics canon, or “RRR” a maximalist piece of Telugu cinema that felt like several action films crammed into one. In the latter, Stevenson was particularly theatrical, snarling melodramatically as a colonialist villain. Stevenson stops just short of actually twirling his mustache in that film.
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Stevenson occasionally brushed up against the classics, although it was usually in a comic book milieu. He appeared in a film adaptation of “The Three Musketeers,” but it was a literarily inaccurate action bonanza directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. He played one of the Knights of the Round Table, but it was in a modern, action-heavy “King Arthur” film by Antoine Fuqua. He also appeared as Blackbeard the Pirate in “Black Sails,” and a highly fictionalized Titus Pullo in the TV series “Rome.”
