Ray Winstone Says His Audition to Play Natalie Portman's Father in “Star Wars” 'Didn't Go Well' Because He Was Drunk

Ray Winstone is recalling that his audition for a domiciled successful Star Wars didn't spell complete well, successful ample portion because he was drunk from nan anterior night.

Winstone, 68, told Far Out magazine successful a caller question and reply that his audition for 1 of George Lucas' Star Wars prequels "didn’t spell well,” successful ample portion owed to his recollection that he had been retired nan entirety of nan nighttime earlier he met pinch nan franchise's creator.

“Had words and that was that. I’ve worked for George since, and he was fine," Winstone recalled. "He didn’t remember. Or if he did, he didn’t return it to heart.”

Winstone, a characteristic character champion known for his roles successful The Departed and Black Widow, implied that he had auditioned to represent Natalie Portman's on-screen begetter successful 1 of nan Star Wars prequels erstwhile he said nan domiciled he was up for was “the Princess’ father, aliases thing for illustration that.”

"I was pissed anyway,” nan character shared. “I’d been retired each night, and I turned up, and I knew I was incorrect for nan portion arsenic soon arsenic I walked in, but alternatively of saying that, [Lucas] relayed nan connection to maine done personification else, and I took umbrage astatine that."

While Winstone ne'er clarified precisely which Star Wars movie he auditioned for, actor Graeme Blundell yet portrayed nan characteristic Ruwee Naberrie — begetter to Portman's Padme Amidala — successful 2005's Revenge of nan Sith. (Blundell, 80, besides appeared successful a deleted scene from 2002's Attack of nan Clones.)

As Winstone noted successful his question and reply pinch Far Out, he yet worked pinch Lucas, now 81, connected 2008's Indiana Jones and nan Kingdom of nan Crystal Skull, which Lucas produced and cowrote.

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Winstone antecedently told his Star Wars audition communicative to nan defunct British mag For Him backmost successful 1999, implying that he had auditioned for that year's The Phantom Menace. "When I walked successful he evidently knew I wasn't correct for nan part, but alternatively of saying 'Nice to meet you, Ray,' and making mini talk, he ne'er looked astatine me," he recalled of gathering Lucas astatine nan time. "So I told him, 'Why don't we some person a 15-minute slumber and past I'll f---- off.' " 

"Then again, that benignant of movie would bore nan arse disconnected maine [with] each that blue-screen work," he said.

Winstone astir precocious appeared connected surface successful nan 2024 Guy Ritchie Netflix bid The Gentlemen and Millie Bobby Brown's Netflix imagination movie, Damsel.