Ray Winstone dreams of making ‘King Lear’ film with Gary Oldman
Ray Winstone dreams of making a ‘King Lear’ film directed by his old friend Gary Oldman. The ‘Sexy Beast’ film and TV hardman, 67, worked with the ‘Slow Horses’ actor, 65, on brutal domestic violence drama ‘Nil By Mouth’, and said he would love to return their collaboration to make a “reality”-based version of Shakespeare’s bloodsoaked play about the tortured monarch. He told The Independent about the play, and how he would not want it adapted to the modern age: “It’s very cleverly written, innit, by a very clever man… I’d wanna go back to the nitty gritty of no mobile phones, just concentrate...